Foothold Quotes

30 quotes by 30 authors

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new… — George W. Bush
The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder… — Jeffrey Sachs
Japan is a wonderful country, a strange mixture of ancient mystique and cyberpunk saturation. It's a monolith of society's achievements, yet maintains a foothold in… — Corey Taylor
I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest… — Branford Marsalis
Sometimes, when I get a good picture, it feels like I have taken another nervous step into increasingly rarified air. Each good-news picture, no matter… — Sally Mann
From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is… — Emile Durkheim
We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before… — John Buford
And we need to maintain our foothold in the fight against terrorism and terrorist groups and respond to any degradation of Iraqi security or stability. — Rick Larsen
The secret idea she was forming of an afterlife gave her the foothold she needed to endure the agonies to come, a newfound courage and… — Lucy Ellmann
Consciousness is evolving throughout the universe in billions of forms. So even if we didn't make it, this wouldn't matter on cosmic scale. No gain… — Eckhart Tolle
My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class.'… — Daniel H. Pink
If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one… — James A. Michener
It gets harder and harder to succeed and find audiences with the 500-channel universe, the remote control, and people being so trigger happy with that… — David E. Kelley
To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself. — Soren Kierkegaard
The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had ships. In the… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Seaboard Air Line, which was thought by numerous innocents to provide a foothold in aviation, was another favorite, although, in fact, it was a railroad. — John Kenneth Galbraith
After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional… — Dee Dee Myers
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. — Wilhelm Reich
A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others… — Confucius
When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency. — Arthur Golden

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