Firm Quotes

I'm a firm believer that if the other side scores first, you have to score twice to win.

Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.

He [Barack Obama] just seemed very firm about the change, and that's, like, his motto.

It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.

I stayed there, curled up into the warmth of your body, under the blankets, like something soft in a shell. Your arms were firm as rock around me.

Iran's strong logic and firm diplomacy is the guideline for all government officials in negotiations on country's peaceful nuclear program with foreigners, quite resolutely.

In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.

I'm a really firm believer that anyone can get pretty good at anything if you just do it all the time and you just keep working at it.

In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers.

I'm a firm believer that all sports will eventually be global. Someday, we may have a quarterback from China named Yao Fling.

By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I am (in the full force of the term) an anarchist. Listen to me.

Dear young people, let me now ask you a question. What will you leave to the next generation? Are you building your lives on firm foundations, building something that will endure?

Im a firm believer that actors take to work who they arent at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career.

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

You have a firm grasp of the obvious.

In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase.

The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the means used to fight terrorism.

So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'

The responsiveness of a firm to the consumer is directly proportionate to the distance on the organization chart from the consumer to the chairman of the board.

Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I.

Fight valiantly to-day; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor.

For who so firm that cannot be seduced?

What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble.

If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.

I'm a firm believer in if you work hard you should play hard. So I try to keep my life as balanced as possible to keep my sanity.

I am a firm believer that you can have the body you want, only to the extent that you're willing to work for it.

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

In a perfect world, probably we'd never yell, we'd just be firm and dispassionate. But of course, everyone yells at their children.

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

Indeed we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world.

Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counselor.

And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.

I got a job with a law firm in Portland after a couple of years with Senator Muskie. But by then, my interest in politics had been sparked, through meeting Senator Muskie, through seeing what he did.

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

There's a real simple analogy. You have to perceive it from the ground up. You have to lay a firm foundation, then every step becomes part of a logical process.

Serbia stands firmly on the EU path.

The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected.

Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.

I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of facts.

The best way to begin disarming is to begin-and the United States is ready to conclude firm agreements in these areas and to consider any other reasonable proposal.

I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do.

The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.

All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside.

With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray, Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode; But now all smiles, and now again all frowns, She's constant only in inconstancy.

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.