{"quotes":[{"text":"I am more and more convinced that some people are put in our lives solely to try our patience and tamper with our tolerance levels.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["bearing","bother","composure","endurance","nuisance","patience","restraint","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich","self-control","tolerance","trouble-maker"],"id":67341,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"Ladies and gentlemen, when you paint your lips, eyes, nails, hair, side-beards, or whatever, to look beautiful or handsome, don't forget your up stairs, if you don't go up there to put things in order, then, consider the former attributes null and void.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["appearance","beautiful","beauty","big-boy","big-boys","common-sense","competence","composure","cute","damsel","educated","education","eye","face","guys","handsome","intellect","intelligence","ladies","ladies-and-gentlemen","lady","memory","memory-lane","mental","mental-makeups","mentality","michael-bassey-johnson","nigga","niggas","painting","pretty","telewealth","up-stairs","wisdom"],"id":87474,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"She had the experience to suffer with discretion.","author":"John le Carré","tags":["composure","contentment","dignity"],"id":115317,"author_id":"John+le+Carr%C3%A9"},{"text":"Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["alone","bad-company","bad-friends","believe-in-yourself","company","composure","contentment","crowd","detachment","disturbance","enigma","enigmatic","freedom","friends","friendship","friendships","happiness","liberty","lonely","lonliness","michael-bassey-johnson","negative-people","once","one","privacy","private-life","remember","rememberance","separation","single","today","toxic-people","unecessary","yesterday","you"],"id":117301,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Don't let out your true behaviour in the public, even if you were born nasty, make others feel you were well bred.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["behaviour","clean-up","composure","control","cover-up","deception","defamation","dignity","disgrace","gentle","lies","michael-bassey-johnson","poise","reputation","self-image","self-respect","shame","swindle","trick","witty"],"id":141346,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"There are better people in the world, do not let the worst do the worst to you, you deserve the best in life.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["be-happy","benefit","best","better","blessing","care","caring","composure","eat","eat-and-drink","enjoy","enjoy-life","enjoy-yourself","girl-power","good-life","good-riddance","good-things","hanging-out","life","life-and-living","loving-someone","merry","peace","relationship","relationships","the-best","together","worst"],"id":158597,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"I cannot let my blood pressure rise because someone wishes to spread his or her bad day around, as if to dilute instead of multiply it.","author":"Thomm Quackenbush","tags":["anger","bad-day","blood-pressure","composure"],"id":160594,"author_id":"Thomm+Quackenbush"},{"text":"My self is a thing that I must now compose...As one composes a speech. What I must present is a 'made' thing. Not something born.","author":"Margaret Atwood","tags":["composure","made","women"],"id":161564,"author_id":"Margaret+Atwood"},{"text":"With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["balance","composure","contentment","education","education-system","freedom","freedom-of-thought","funny","funny-but-true","humor","life","mind","peace","peace-of-mind","philosophy","poise","rationality","regrets","social","social-norms","sociality","thinking","thought","unstoppable","unstoppable-force"],"id":166314,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.","author":"Gabriel Zaid","tags":["books","composure","culture","unread"],"id":173113,"author_id":"Gabriel+Zaid"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}