Firm Quotes
943 Firm quotes by 740 unique authors
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In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating…
— Evgeny Morozov
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Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for…
— Geoff Mulgan
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Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont…
— Charles de Gaulle
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From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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We were so wholly one I had not thought That we could die apart. I had not thought That I could move,—and you be stiff…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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She had turned her back upon them all and no awful fate had overtaken her; instead, she had taken a firm hold upon life and…
— Louis Bromfield
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not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I'n'I nah come to fight flesh and blood, But spiritual wickedness in 'igh and low places. So while they fight you down, Stand firm and…
— Bob Marley
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The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood.…
— Margaret Sanger
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And taking her friend’s hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a woman’s heart which the male often finds…
— Guy de Maupassant
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No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more…
— Margaret Atwood
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I am a firm believer that the Lord sometimes has to short-circuit even our best plans for our benefit.
— Tony Dungy
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I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be…
— Henry James
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A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some taste and decency.…
— John Kennedy Toole
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George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half. Between us…
— John le Carre
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O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot…
— Richard Llewellyn
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Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.
— Confucius
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No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.…
— Shirley Jackson
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You can't go on like you're going to start really living one day like all this is some preamble to some great life thats magically…
— Perry Moore
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Aside from the obvious, Francesca, what do you want in return for supplying information?” Bones asked, getting back to the subject. “You to take me,”…
— Jeaniene Frost
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The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her…
— Edith Wharton
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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
— Oscar Wilde
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Sometimes people will hear you and be able to change their behavior, but often their behavior has more to do with their own need for…
— Jillian Michaels
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Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling.…
— Cecelia Ahern
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She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.
— Henry James
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