I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Vision and priorities should precede actions. Actions should be judged through the prism of how the firm adds value and the key… — Robert S. Kaplan Copy Share Image
It has been my firm belief, based on my research and investigations over the past half century, that UFOs and their occupants,… — George Fawcett Copy Share Image
I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
Steaming is a great way to cook any firm fleshed fish, but it's often overlooked by the home cook. — Tom Douglas Copy Share Image
Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal. — Laozi Copy Share Image
I'm a firm believer and always have been that there aren't all that many things that you should not express to children… — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Let us keep a firm grip upon our money, for without it the whole assembly of virtues are but as blades of… — Bhartrhari Copy Share Image
A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training. There's no such thing as an overnight opera… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Those days are long gone. But our corporations haven't caught up with it. Our law firms, our higher education system, and our… — Vicki Donlan Copy Share Image
You have various institutions like law firms and accounting firms which bill by the hour. I'm really against that. You have an… — Robert Pozen Copy Share Image
In a pure capitalist system, an institution as moronic and corrupt as Bank of America would be swiftly punished by the market… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this… — Karl Philipp Moritz Copy Share Image
Open source production has shown us that world-class software, like Linux and Mozilla, can be created with neither the bureaucratic structure of… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers,… — Hilary Rosen Copy Share Image