Firm Quotes

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.

When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm.

This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

I didn't respond well to a firm hand and insults.

The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.

You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.

We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

I am a firm believer that if you score one goal the other team have to score two to win.

The Beltway media went into caroming-off-the-walls hysterics over Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, whipping itself into a flaming casserole even as Clinton's standing with the American people remained upright and firm, so to speak.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.

I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.

You actually can make it, no matter what. I truly am a firm believer in that. Eminem's living proof.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.

I'm a firm believer in putting your money where your mouth is.

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.