The French courage proceeds from vanity the German from phlegm the Turkish from fanaticism opium the Spanish from pride the English from coolness the Dutch from obstinacy the Russian from insensibility but the Italian from anger.
Quotes about coolness (15 Quotes)
Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.
We had some personal records today and we had some other records who were right on average. I think the coolness and the wind died out about race time. The times were about on par and some were a little quicker today. It was a big race, when we get these kind of numbers, times tend to go down.
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. Cultivated labor drives out brute labor.
Then soon with the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping with coolness, it rose from the well.
I was really pleased with our poise and coolness on the court when it did get close.
Merkel has a certain coolness towards Russia, after all she grew up in what she would view as an occupied East Germany. But German business interests make good relations essential and she can't ignore that reality.
Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.
In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.
He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
With a kid that's loose, you want him to feel it. You're like, 'OK, he did care.' He had that certain coolness about him.
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.
Quite a number of observers have commented on my coolness during various riotous concerts which I performed at during those first tumultuous years of the armistice between World War I and World War II. The reason is very simple I was armed.
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.