Firmness Quotes

95 quotes by 68 authors

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things. — Jilly Cooper
Lime juice makes things taste fresher. I use it for drinks, salsas, relishes, soups, and sauces. You want some give to your limes - firmness… — Bobby Flay
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on… — Abraham Lincoln
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest… — George Washington
God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the… — Phyllis McGinley
Over your breasts of motionless current, over your legs of firmness and water, over the permanence and the pride of your naked hair I want… — Pablo Neruda
Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.… — John Donne
Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness. — Jim Elliot
But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of… — Alan Lightman
Gently, I ran my hand across his chest, exploring it. My breath felt tight in my throat. He was so beautiful. His muscles were toned,… — L.A. Weatherly
Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing. — Alexander Hamilton
She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable,… — Jane Austen
Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice. — H. L. Mencken
Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean abjectness or timidity,… — Mahatma Gandhi
I have twice met Jeffrey Archer, and on both occasions was struck by the firmness of his handshake - and the way he looked me… — Craig Brown
As I have shown, I will defend democracy with arms when it is threatened by violence; with firmness when it is weakened by division; with… — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
I found it marvelous that the great supporters of America in Europe are, of course, those countries that American consistency and firmness in the Cold… — John Rhys-Davies
The purpose firm is equal to the deed. — Edward Young
Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing. — Alexander Hamilton

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