Firm Quotes - Page 16

• From the drawing-room window I see pass almost daily an old gentleman with white hair, a firm step, broad shoulders, healthy pink skin, a sunny smile - always singing to himself as he goes - a happy, rosy-cheeked old fellow, with a rosy-cheeked mind I should like to throw mud at him.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Hair, White, Drawing

  W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

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• I have a firm conviction that I am immortal until my work is done.

  Lottie Moon

  Done, Conviction, Immortal

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• Producing fuel cells and solar panels requires high tech facilities and produces high paying jobs. The industry is booming in Arizona. The state already has about 100 firms in the solar industry and has grown 20% since 2003.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Jobs, Technology, Cells

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• If Heaven were not clear it might rend. If Earth were not firm it might crumble.

  Laozi

  Heaven, Taoism, Earth

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• I'm a firm believer that everything in life works out the way it's supposed to. And who knows? I figure I've got a few years left (in the NHL) and maybe I can come back in the end.

  Darren McCarty

  Years, Nhl, Work Out

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• It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Learning, Successful, Principles

  Bjarne Stroustrup (1994). “The Design and Evolution of C++”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• The contagious people of Washington have stood firm against diversity during this long period of increment weather.

  Marion Barry

  Weather, Long, People

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• Elizabeth lay face-down on the massage table, and allowed Marco to relieve the stress of the business day with firm and knowing fingers. Success, she decided, was often a matter of knowing when to relax.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Stress, Knowing, Relaxation

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• It is not acceptable for customers in one member state to pay the price for a company to become a bigger player in other member states. The ruling shows that in these cases it is essential that companies propose adequate remedies in order to guarantee sufficient competition from other firms.

  Neelie Kroes

  Player, Pay The Price, Order

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• My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.

  A. J. McLean

  Nice, Ideas, Perfect

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• The only thing that matters is that we stand firm.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Matter, Things That Matter, Stand Firm

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• While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them.

  Emile Durkheim

  Order, Energy, Molecules

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• But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Information, Belief, Action

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• Union busting has become a major industry with more than a thousand consulting firms teaching companies how to prevent workers from organizing and how to get rid of existing unions.

  Michael Parenti

  Teaching, Political, Unions

  Michael Parenti (1996). “Dirty Truths”, p.122, City Lights Books

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• Similarly, establishing a firm timeline for bringing our troops home could accelerate the development of Iraqi security forces and deepen their commitment to defending their own country and their own government.

  Peter DeFazio

  Country, Home, Commitment

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• Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any 'abuse' came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Powerful, Order, Boss

  "NBC Uses Lewinsky Interview to Silence Talk of Clinton Scandals". www.newsbusters.org. April 18, 2016.

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• He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Mold, World, Willpower

  "Hermann und Dorothea". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, October 1797.

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• I stand by my kind; and I thank God for the temptations that have brought me into sympathy with them, as I do for the love that urges me to efforts for their good. I hail the great brotherhood of trial and temptation in the name of humanity, and give them assurance that from the Divine Man, and some, at least, of His disciples, there goes out to them a flood of sympathy that would fain sweep them up to the firm footing of the rock of safety.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Rocks, Names

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 42, 1895.

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• It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should.

  Michael Schudson

  Advertising, Should, Interest

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.18, Routledge

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• I have always been a firm believer that the game has never belonged to the owners. It has never belonged to the ballplayers. It belongs to the guy who puts his money up on the window and says, 'How much does it cost to sit in the bleachers?' That is who owns baseball. And it has got to be kept that way.

  Johnny Vander Meer

  Baseball, Games, Guy

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• My policy is to learn from the past, focus on the present, and dream about the future. I'm a firm believer in learning from adversity. Often the worst of times can turn to your advantage - my life is a study of that.

  Donald Trump

  Dream, Adversity, Past

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• Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

  Carlos Slim

  Yield, Optimism, Rewards

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• I believed that our own public would keep this in mind even in this serious crisis, and stand firm if only we at the front continued to stand firm too.

  Paul von Hindenburg

  Mind, Serious, Crisis

  Paul von Hindenburg (1921). “Out of My Life”

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• Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.

  Jeff Bezos

  Obvious, All Time

  "Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. November 13, 2011.

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• Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.

  Lech Walesa

  Love, Peace, Goal

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