Firm Quotes

But I'm not afraid of the skeletons in Julie's closet. I look forward to meeting the rest of them, looking them hard in the eye, giving them firm, bone-crunching handshakes.

Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.

Once again it was Gough who stood firm for Scotland in the air

I'm a firm believer that you learn a hell of a lot more from your failures than you do from your successes.

I'm a firm believer in quality > quantity, and I think it's important to have high standards in any product creation product.

I really am a firm believer that if you're going to do something musically, you really need to know what that music would have sounded like, what those instruments would have been.

I just want to assure you that both President Bush and I have very firm alibis.

Severn - I - lift me up - I am dying - I shall die easy; don't be frightened - be firm, and thank God it has come.

I believed in myself and I am a firm believer you have to think the things you want and visualize.

One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a law firm and also worked part-time at night, often working until 11:00 P.M.

We were pleased to hear the President state his firm commitment that he will do whatever is necessary to accomplish this important goal.

I definitely have a firm, fixed idea of what compromise is for me.

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

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.

No one would look just at a firm's revenues to assess how well it was doing. Far more relevant is the balance sheet, which shows assets and liability. That is also true for a country.

If you destroy a firm, you can't pull it out of bankruptcy overnight.

You know, Taylor, I told his manager that your reputation in this firm is that you can go head-to-head with any man. And win.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with poetry.

As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics.

It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker.

I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable.

[on the theory of the firm] It is exactly analogous to the analysis of the reactions of a consumer by means of indifferent curves. Indeed, a consumer is merely a 'firm' whose product is 'utility.'

I'm often a firm believer in "the simpler the better" approach and it's evident in my guitar setup.

I am my father's son. My sticking to my guns and doing it my way, and standing firm - that's definitely from him. And the music side, I was so lucky to have a dad that was as cool as he was.

Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.

I'm a firm believer of wine.

Sweetheart, all men are animals. Feed us, pet us, and use a firm hand, and we'll worship at your feet.

It is my firm faith that man is by nature going higher.

It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.

My firm belief is that he reveals Himself daily to every human being but we shut our ears to the still small Voice.

Whoever does not fight the one who despises him, neither in word not in thought, has received true knowledge and demonstrates a firm trust in God.

Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.

The cornerstone of religion, a clear vision can inspire great action and firm conviction.

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

In an ignorant country, everything will try to drag you down! Stay firm, aim at the stars, keep going up and drag up the people who are trying to drag you down!

As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth.

Honestly, I'm a firm believer in the next generation of filmmakers. It's very important to keep things fresh, new, current. They have a pulse on what's important today.

Each firm held its rope; one by one, they realized that no matter how strongly they pulled, the balloon would eventually lift them off their feet.

Brokerage firms don't sell customers stock so much as they sell those horrible mutual funds

I'm a firm believer that all this packaged stuff that Americans are buying up in gobs is making them fatter.

If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.

I'm a firm believer that when children have a strong conviction about something, it's often because there's some powerful experience from a past life. Something that they didn't get to fulfill.

I’ve had reports of this one being in the city, but no close-up pictures till now. He’s some kind of pretty. I could just take a bite out of that firm—

I am of the firm belief that the nation should progress on the issue of development. And it is necessary that the country moves forward on the issue of development.

[Barack] Obama seems to have no firm principles that I can discern that he will adhere to.

I am a firm believer that the pull for human beings is towards the good, generally outweighing the bad.

... courage is accompanied by patience and firm resolution? God sets courage like a sea around the weakness of our nature, enabling us to undermine the strongholds and citadels of the enemy.

I'm honestly not a big fan of pitching things. I'm a firm believer of letting the product speak for iteself.

Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.