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Firmness Quotes (page 18)

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 from a plump active little woman with a neatly-turned foot and ankle into something as vast and august as a natural phenomenon. She had accepted this submergence as philosohpically as all her other trials, and now, in extreme old age, was rewarded by presenting to her mirror an almost unwrinkled expanse of firm pink and white flesh, in the centre of which the traces... Edith Wharton
To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the slight fear which is causes us, now to confront unjust power, again to insult intoxicated victory, to hold firm and withstand -- such is the example which nations need and the light which electrifies them. Victor Hugo
not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take. Thomas Jefferson
Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation. Alfred Korzybski
John Donne quote: "Thy firmness makes my circle just,and makes me end where I begun."
Thy firmness makes my circle just,and makes me end where I begun. John Donne
Dante Alighieri quote: "Be as a tower, that, firmly set, Shakes not its top for any..."
Be as a tower, that, firmly set, Shakes not its top for any blast that blows! Dante Alighieri
When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful. Friedrich Nietzsche
We might have been ready to offer sympathy, but in actuality there were stronger reasons to want to congratulate her for having found such a powerful motive to feel sad. We should have envied her for having located someone without whom she so firmly felt she could not survive, beyond the gate let along in a bare student bedroom in a suburb of Rio. If she had been able to view her situation from a sufficient distance, she might have been able to recognise this as one of the high points in her... Alain de Botton
I already began to inspire the men with love. My breast began to take its right form, and such a breast! white, firm, and formed like that of the Venus de' Medici; my eyebrows were as black as jet, and as for my eyes, they darted flames and eclipsed the luster of the stars, as I was told by the poets of our part of the world. My maids, when they dressed and undressed me, used to fall into an ecstasy in viewing me before and behind; and all the men longed to be in their places. Voltaire
As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly. Gilbert K. Chesterton
...but now that I view the scene in retrospect I see it as a very gentle and firm deportation, taking me from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady. Christopher Hitchens
Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, (born circa 1818? February 20, 1895) was an American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. Called "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of Anacostia", Douglass is one of the most prominent figures in African-American and United States history. He was a firm believer in the equality of all people, whether black, female, Native American, or recent immigrant. He was fond of saying, "I would... Frederick Douglass
Alexander Hamilton quote: "Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for..."
Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing. Alexander Hamilton
Harriet Beecher Stowe quote: "glossy green wood chairs, old and firm; a small flag-bottomed..."
glossy green wood chairs, old and firm; a small flag-bottomed rocking-chair, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Remaining" is an essential part… What the Church Fathers call perseverantia–patient steadfastness in communion with the Lord amid all the vicissitudes of life–is placed center stage here. Initial enthusiasm is easy. Afterward, though, it is time to stand firm, even along the monotonous desert paths that we are called upon to traverse in this life–with the patience it takes to tread evenly, a patience in which the romanticism of the initial awakening subsides, so that only the deep, pure Yes... Joseph Ratzinger

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