Firmly Quotes

611 Firmly quotes by 515 unique authors

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid. — Ivy Compton-Burnett
Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground… — Donna Farhi
I am a strong partisan of second causes, and I believe firmly that the entire gallinaceous order has been merely created to furnish our larders… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Costume is always an asset. Normal costume you have a lot to say about - if you're wearing suits or ties, and what color you… — Morgan Freeman
Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in… — James Russell Lowell
One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get… — Meister Eckhart
There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they… — Samuel Smiles
Linda Brewer's example is inspiring, colorful and potentially very funny. Her journey also exists firmly in the Heartland tradition of American success stories and comedies. — David Duchovny
Standing up here on the hill away from all humans - seeing these Wonders taking place before one's eyes - so silently... watching the silence… — Alfred Stieglitz
It is now firmly established that ontogeny does not repeat phylogeny — George Gaylord Simpson
One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve… — Thomas Aquinas
Hence when a person is in great pain, the cause of which he cannot remove, he sets his teeth firmly together, or bites some substance… — Erasmus Darwin
DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989 after creating close… — Alvin Ailey
There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded and consistent defense… — Murray Rothbard
Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for… — Stephen Covey
It is then, we say, in the successive stages of his experience, that the believer sees more distinctly, and adores more profoundly, and grasps more… — Octavius Winslow
People have got that ancient prejudice so firmly rooted in their heads that one mustn't write save at I the dictation of the Holy Spirit.… — George Gissing
I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and every thing that is contrary to… — Dwight L. Moody
Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I am firmly opposed to the government entering into any business the major purpose of which is competition with our citizens... for the Federal Government… — Herbert Hoover
No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning ... for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be… — Berthold Auerbach
Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, even nonsurrealists like Kafka and Nabokov - writers like these, who create paths between the firmly grounded and flights of fantasy,… — Jeff VanderMeer
I firmly believe that we're all good people, but sometimes it's hard to understand how to do good. — Patrick Rothfuss
If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they… — Anne Frank
I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt. — Thomas Friedman

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