Firmer Quotes

He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

The closer the bird is to the surface of the water, the firmer and more inelastic is the uplift of the rising air. The bird appears to almost feel the surface with the tip of its weather wing.

Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.

Now, I do think when we move into 2012 and '13 when, presumably, the economy is on firmer ground, I would allow the tax rates for upper-income individuals to revert back to where they were before the cuts in the 1990s. I think at that point it makes perfect sense.