Poised Quotations

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.

In 2007, Michael Grimm, former Marine, former FBI agent, accountant and attorney, was poised for success as a small business owner. Instead, as alleged, Grimm made the choice to go from upholding the law to breaking it. In so doing, he turned his back on every oath he had ever taken.

I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a completely new stage of life. Your innocent understanding of the world moves towards something messier and more complicated, and once it does you can never go back.

We are poised to grow again, which is part of our long-term strategy. Ultimately, the baby boomer impact will come, and we have quite an array of businesses to capture that impact.

We are poised to be a good team defensively. The major questions are safety and depth at linebacker.

We are poised for dramatic growth over the next five years across our business. Our planned acquisition of Hughes Supply is a great example of how we are rapidly replicating in the professional market the same type of transformation that we brought to the home improvement retail market.

We are poised for breaking away from our competitors in the food industry, ... This strategic growth plan is designed to vault our company into the ranks of the world's renowned consumer goods companies, in terms of financial profile and market multiple.

We are poised for a strong economic recovery. New Orleans is one of the oldest cities in America. Federal and state activities are in place to design, develop, construct, and enhance protection from flooding. We have withstood major storms before, and will appropriately address the infrastructure so that this type of devastation never occurs again.

We are looking like we are going to taper well. Brighton is going to come at us. I think Novi is a solid third place team in the league. We are looking poised to give them a challenge. It's close.

We're in a very strong position right now. We're poised to make gains.

We stand today poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking open space and of an overall environment that is diminished daily by pollution and noise and blight. This, in brief, is the quiet conservation crisis.

With no iPod Mini to dilute its impact, Apple's new Nano is poised to become the company's next best seller -- and rivals' biggest headache, ... Steve Jobs's Tiny but Sure Bet.

We're just a composed, poised team on the road. Nothing really gets to us.

We're just not poised enough with the puck. We're not managing the puck well and we're not taking advantage of what they've giving us. Give credit to Carolina. There's a reason they're in first place.

With the moves that they made, and things that they've been able to do, this team seems poised to make a run. We're young and very, very talented.

We knew they were going to have great defensive pressure. I think they got us out of our offense a little bit. So I think in those situations we need to stay poised and execute our offense a little bit better. I think that's what we are going to work on as we continue Pac-10s.

With three contract manufacturers on board, we're poised to have the flexibility and efficiencies we need to keep up with the consumer demand.

We were trying to stay poised; that was our main focus, to handle their runs. They're a talented team, so we knew they were going to have some game-changing runs in them. When they had those, we tried to remain poised and handle them as well as possible.

We achieved profitability for the first time this quarter, and we now are poised to drive broadband growth more aggressively than ever,

There is a real historic opportunity to take what has obviously been just a terrible thing and create something good out of it. If the business-as-usual, adult-centered agenda rules the day, it would be a real tragedy for the students in New Orleans. People around the nation who are poised to help bring resources to the table might turn their attention to other places.

The extraordinary financial performance of conventional homebuilders in this economic cycle leads us to believe that there is a strong possibility that their stocks could be poised for record-breaking valuations.

There are a lot of good teams out there, and if we want to be considered one of them, we have to show up to play for a full 60 minutes. From what I've seen the last two games, teams are sitting back, but our team is not poised enough with the puck. We seem to be ramming it down our own throats and moving it where they have their guys positioned.

This project is among the very few worldwide that is poised to rapidly come on-line to help meet burgeoning global demand for base and precious metals that we all need and use every day.

Whenever you look at a game I am always reminded of a Bill Lawry quote that you should always add two wickets on and then re-assess the game. If we were to do that then I would say that it's evenly poised on a pretty good batting wicket.

When the match is poised at 1-1, you know one mistake could be crucial and there is an understandable nervousness. We seem to want to score the perfect goal when I'd much rather see us get scruffy ones - a toe poke or a ricochet.

We were certainly poised to take advantage of other teams' inability, if you will, to act quickly in free agency. And now obviously the field's been leveled quite a bit. We're disappointed solely from a football operations standpoint that we weren't able to jump out there and take advantage of some players and opportunities that might have come about because of teams having to clear cap space.

When we saw Denny got the nod, we remained poised offensively. I appreciate that the team didn't get to big. You can have a tendency to be sloppy. But we stayed within ourselves.

There are opportunities to invest in these stocks even given the uncertainty because they're strong companies and they're poised to recover when things start to look better.

We're excited about where this franchise is headed. I'm very confident in the group of players we've put together. We're taking it one step at a time. But this franchise is poised to take the next step, and we will take the next step.

Manhattan Associates was ahead of the curve in being able to show us how its RFID solutions would meet our needs. With the help of Manhattan Associates' project team, the implementation was smooth and came in under budget. Shire is poised and ready to meet upcoming retail requirements.

Like coach said, we just go out there and have fun. We're all calm, poised and we make sure we have fun. I mean, basketball was made to have fun. So, if you ain't having fun, you're not going to perform.

Liberia today is poised between hope and disaster,

Senate leaders warned President George W. Bush on Wednesday that his next nominee to the Supreme Court will likely face a far more contentious confirmation battle than John Roberts, who is poised to become U.S. chief justice.

She was impressive: articulate, poised and mature. I never got the idea she wielded a lot of influence.

Omar was poised in there, didn't get rattled and made some nice throws. His receivers bailed him out a couple of times. But he moved the club.

Mr Moore has come in and he is absolutely everything I wanted. He is cool, calm and collected and he scored two great goals tonight. He is poised on the puck, a good goal scorer, has a great shot, and is going to be a great addition to this hockey club.

MOTOR TREND holds a distinctive place in the landscape of automotive journalism. It is a strong and influential publication that is poised for tremendous growth. It is the right time for Ira to take MOTOR TREND to the next level.

Motorola's extensive experience in video distribution and cellular tells us that Mobile TV is poised to be one of the next great consumer experience drivers. As a founding member of the Mobile Digital TV Alliance, we're pleased to be working with our fellow industry leaders to bring this experience to market faster and make it more accessible to subscribers everywhere via open standards such as DVB-H.

One of Toro's largest end markets -- golf -- appears to be poised for a long-awaited rebound. The residential piece of the market is gearing up for strong promotional activity, which bodes well for the fiscal second quarter.

Online sales are poised to well outperform the growth in retail overall as more shoppers turn to the Web for convenience and values.

Myers was very poised on the mound and had excellent control of all of his pitches.

Must See TV' is a snore. 'Must Stream TV' is where the action is—where Adult Swim meets the X Box. Nowhere but Heavy.com will you find a full new season of fall original programming—humorous, outrageous programming that TV can't do. Broadband is poised to overtake cable audiences and America is ready for breakthrough shows like Dr. Philpra, Colossus Whisperer.

Now we're poised to begin the next chapter of Disney history when Hong Kong Disneyland will officially open to the world.

Now you can see the end of the DNA. You can see the cylinder holding it, poised to go into the cell.

Pfizer and American Home Products will be manic and poised to lead the group, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Merck appear to be stick in the middle and Eli Lilly and Schering-Plough will be down in the dumps,

Post this transformation project, First Investment Bank is poised to redefine banking in the region and we are delighted to be a part of this change.

Nobody panicked and everybody just stayed poised and confident and we played the game. With Brad on the hill, the kids are going to feel confident.

New vehicle demand in the US is poised to peak out sooner rather than later, which may weigh on demand for Japanese (automobiles).

I don't have to talk to Eli. If he were another type of personality, it would be different. But he's as poised a quarterback as you could want, and he handles every situation in an unflappable manner.

IBM is uniquely poised to connect multiple development teams through a secured, distributed environment. Systems engineers rely on the IBM Rational Software Development Platform to collaborate and govern their overall software development process.

Casey is our lynch-pin. She's experienced, poised and a real solid competitor. She will keep us in every game.

Certain cities are poised to become satellite commercial centers. White Plains is analogous to Stamford in Connecticut and New Brunswick in New Jersey. But New Rochelle will probably never reach that level because it's not as centrally located, and it doesn't have the critical mass of commercial activity to begin with.

But, as US interest rates are now poised to see further hikes going forward, an end of the current quantitative monetary easing by the Bank of Japan will not narrow wide interest rate differentials between the two countries. And this interest rate gap should continue to support the dollar.

China's ambitious weapons modernization and reforms in military doctrine are aimed at promoting vast increases in its comprehensive national power, ... a wake-up call to the administration, to Congress, to the Taiwan government and to our friends and allies in the Asia-Pacific region that . . . China stands poised to assert itself as the pre-eminent power in the Asia-Pacific region.

China is going to become a member of the WTO, whether we grant PNTR or not. There are other countries that are just poised to service that market if we don't.

China is going to become a member of the WTO, whether we grant PNTR or not, ... There are other countries that are just poised to service that market if we don't.

I feel very calm and poised underneath it all, but no less passionate or committed to the work. I won't go soft on you, but I feel calm inside.

Given OPEC's decision to keep quotas unchanged, Iranian guarantees of oil supply and U.S. statements excluding the possibility of oil sanctions, crude is poised to fall next week.

From inception we have placed the interests of our investors, customers and fellow partners (employees) first and foremost. We believe that aligned with Sprint Nextel we are poised to move to the next level. This is an across-the-board success. It results in an attractive price and provides certainty for all Nextel Partners shareholders.

I expect Dennis, being relaxed, to go out and play the game. It's interesting, the one thing about him, the fact that he's coming from Miami is that he's played in front of 10 to 15,000 people before. I know it's not 40,000, but from what I have seen out of him he's a poised young man and a confident young man.

From the softer ad market and the organizational changes in 2005, Fisher is poised in 2006 to capitalize on an attractive business structure going forward as well as other opportunities such as the recent Seattle Super Bowl (that pitted the Seahawks versus the Pittsburgh Steelers) carried on our Seattle and Portland ABC affiliates.

He did a great job in, by far, one of the toughest weight classes here. There were four returning state qualifiers. ... He gave up the first takedown early in each of his matches, which is very unusual, but in all the matches he stayed poised. He's very poised on the mat. It speaks to his experience.

He is a very poised young man and he has a strong arm. He is a big strong quarterback. I wouldn't say he is just the athlete who is going to come in and run the option up and down the field. I think he beats you more with his arm than his head. He is in a new system and from everything I read, he is very excited about what they are doing offensively.

He looks so much more poised from when we played him last year. By the way the crow flies, it's only six games since we played him. But he's so much smoother out there.

He moves around decently enough for (Duke) to utilize any play action. More than anything, he has been there before. He has been under fire and has the experience. He is poised and he is very intelligent which means he has the ability to hurt you if you give him an opening. He is going to present some problems for us because of his knowledge in the pocket.

We're poised to have an incredible surge forward in life science research . . . and make good use of this money.

We feel it's poised to become a national chain. It will stay under the Wendy's umbrella,

He's a real mobile, very poised with the puck and defends well. For a 20-year-old, he's got a man's body and he skates so well and moves laterally. It's just a matter of getting used to the pace of the game. We hope over time that he develops a bit more of an offensive edge to his game, but right now we don't put a lot of pressure on him to do that. He's going to play, it's just a question of how good he'll be. Is he going to be an All-Star or not?

He's a lot more poised than I was at that age. His work ethic is great. I think going to college helped him, because he was already fine-tuned. When I went out there, I was kind of wide-eyed. He went out there focused.

Holiday 2000 will be the revenge of the brick and mortars. Battle lines on the Internet are being drawn between the offline brick and mortar stores and the Internet pure plays. Offline giants such as Old Navy, Kmart and Best Buy, all of which had little or no Web presence last year, are poised for extraordinary growth during this holiday season.

Holly has been in control all year. Of course, we have to continue that into the Southeastern Conference. She's been a very poised pitcher. Both of my pitchers, Beth and Holly, have been very poised this year and I am proud of them.

He's a very poised quarterback. That's the best way I could state it,

He's a very poised quarterback and he has a feel for the game,

How will we handle that close ballgame? ... How are we going to handle being down 21 points at halftime to Boise State? Is everybody going to push the panic button, or can we stayed poised ... ?

He wasn't mad. He just told us to stay poised and have fun.

He was poised and gained confidence. I'm proud to be his coach.

He is poised and he did the right things at the right time to help his team. He has tremendous athleticism and he picked his spots to do his thing.

Hampton University is poised to offer any assistance necessary to the faculty, staff and students at our sister schools,

Kelly is poised for her best spring season. The juniors will have a great opportunity to play this spring...I am looking for something great out of the juniors.

Josh battled out there for his first game. We kept him at 70 pitches. He didn't get in too much trouble. He had one inning where he got the ball up a little bit and it cost him. If you watch him on the mound, he's very poised and he's got a lot of confidence out there.

It can't be a reactive, give me a specific laundry list of what you need and we'll figure whether we've got it. The most critical time in a disaster is in the first 48 to 72 hours and if you're not poised to help out you're not gonna be much good.

I think it's more of a media event than a market event. It's not really changing what we do every day. We do think we'll get there?we believe equity markets are poised to go higher and the economic backdrop is still intact. It might take a couple of days.

I think that happened to us. We were in almost every game until the end, but then we'd start thinking too much and asking ourselves, 'Are we going to lose this game, too?' That's when you find yourself in a panic situation. We weren't poised enough at the end of the game to finish it off.

I think that people are going to stay at home because of fears of terrorism and that domestic travel is going to be a surprisingly strong business, ... And I think the companies that are poised to benefit from that, Frontier and Continental, are going to do very well.

I thought Amy had a great game. She came up with some big saves when she needed to, and she looked very poised back there.

I think that the (high price) environment is poised to last for the next four to five years...because of the lack of the supply. You can't snap you fingers and bring new mines on.

I thought they were the more poised team down the stretch. I thought we maybe lined up too many threes down the stretch and tried to force the outcome instead of doing what we usually do.

I thought she played terrific. She was the poised veteran that you expect.

I thought our seniors kind of helped with a poised demeanor. I thought Torin and Chris' body language and how they talked in huddles, they were rocks out there that the guys on the floor could rely on.

I think it's the fact that the guy's so confident. He's the guy that all the cheerleaders want to be with -- he's one of those guys. If he was a drink, he'd be some fine cognac because that's how smooth he is. The way he drops back and reads, the way he passes the ball. He plays very poised -- doesn't seem to let anything rattle him even if you pressure him.

I think we are well poised with what we do with our technology know-how to be an active player in this.

I think we are more poised than last year. We still make a few mistakes, but that is because we are young-minded. We are growing as a team, and this game is a good example.

I think they just looked a whole lot more poised than we did. We need to play until we get our feet underneath us. We weren't as confident or aggressive as they are.

I think the recovery is under way, and the economy is poised for a good take-off,

Just coming from playing in a hostile atmosphere, we knew Louisville was going to be tough. It really helped us a lot. We learned from the Syracuse game that we have to be poised at all times. We didn't want to be down but it just helped us tremendously, that Syracuse game.

Just as we have succeeded in greatly increasing the company's profitability over the last five years, we are dedicated to improving our core growth rates by aggressively leveraging the technology position and installed base of each of our three business units. Our growth programs are poised to bear fruit in 1999 and 2000.

Last season was great for Wake Forest and memorable for the ACC. Both Wake Forest and the ACC lost significant contributors, but, as always, the ACC remains strong and we hope that Wake Forest once again is poised to challenge for an ACC championship.

Last season was great for Wake Forest and memorable for the ACC, ... Both Wake Forest and the ACC lost significant contributors, but, as always, the ACC remains strong and we hope that Wake Forest once again is poised to challenge for an ACC championship.

Last night was really deflating. For us to come back with an energy-filled game shows that this team is ready and poised for a lot of hard work. It's really gratifying.

I see him a lot more mature, a lot more poised and mature with the puck, too.