Firm Quotes - Page 15

• Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.

  Francine Rivers

  Fighting, Battle, Trying

  Francine Rivers (2012). “A Voice in the Wind”, p.11, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self esteem, is capable of love - because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed value. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone

  Ayn Rand

  Selfish, Self Esteem, Love Is

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.29, Penguin

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• Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

  Archimedes

  Graduation, Determination, Moving

  Quoted in Pappus, Synagoge

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• I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for alist of questions I definitely want answered after I'm gone.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Prayer, Gone, Want

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

  Shirley Jackson

  Wall, Doors, House

  Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.19, Penguin

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• First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Fear, Patriotic, History

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1933 See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Thoreau 16; Wellington 3

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• what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father, & your mother might both have been

  Charles Dickens

  Mother, Determination, Father

  Charles Dickens (2014). “David Copperfield (Illustrated)”, p.537, BookRix

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• We don't want to think about our weaknesses. We don't want to talk about them, and we certainly don't want anyone else to point them out. This is a classic sign of mediocrity, and this mediocrity has a firm grip on the Church and humanity at this moment in history.

  Matthew Kelly

  Thinking, Humanity, Church

  Matthew Kelly (2002). “Rediscover Catholicism: A Spiritual Guide to Living with Passion & Purpose”, p.118, BookBaby

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• 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

  Men, Mountain, Lines

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• I’ve had reports of this one being in the city, but no close-up pictures till now. He’s some kind of pretty. I could just take a bite out of that firm—

  Nalini Singh

  Cities, Kind, Bites

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.233, Penguin

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• But I'm not afraid of the skeletons in Julie's closet. I look forward to meeting the rest of them, looking them hard in the eye, giving them firm, bone-crunching handshakes.

  Isaac Marion

  Eye, Skeletons, Giving

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• Indeed we have great reason to rejoice. If life and its rushed pace and many stresses have made it difficult for you to feel like rejoicing, then perhaps now is a good time to refocus on what matters most. Strength comes not from frantic activity but from being settled on a firm foundation of truth and light. It comes from placing our attention and efforts on the basics of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. It comes from paying attention to the divine things that matter most.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Stress, What Matters

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• for my grief's so great That no supporter but the huge firm earth Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. (Constance, from King John, Act III, scene 1)

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Grief, Sorrow

  1596 Constance. KingJohn, act 2, sc.2, l.71-3.

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• The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing th orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalist’s work.

  Edward Said

  Fire, Islam, Experts

  Edward W. Said (2014). “Orientalism”, p.283, Vintage

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• Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspirational, Life, Religious

  Elisabeth Elliot (2003). “A Path Through Suffering”, p.38, Revell

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• She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

  David Nicholls

  Writing, Sleepovers, Wasting Time

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• Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on.

  Rachel Cohn

  Lying, Order, Glare

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.17, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• But I am I now; and so many other millions are so irretrievably their own special variety of 'I' that I can hardly bear to think of it. I: how firm a letter; how reassuring the three strokes: one vertical, proud and assertive, and then the two short horizontal lines in quick, smug succession. The pen scratching on the paper…I…I…I…I…I…I.

  Sylvia Plath

  Thinking, Two, Special

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.34, Anchor

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• What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all the employees nothing but a bunch of scoundrels, was there not among them one single loyal devoted man who, had he wasted only an hour or so of the firm's time in the morning, was so tormented by conscience as to be driven out of his mind and actually incapable of leaving his bed?

  Franz Kafka

  Morning, Fate, Men

  "The Metamorphosis". Book by Franz Kafka, 1915.

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• For who so firm that cannot be seduced?

  William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare, David Daniell (1998). “Julius Caesar: Third Series”, p.183, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Love one another, Jesus said. Sometimes it took a lifetime to learn how. Sometimes it took someone to hit rock bottom to make someone reach up and grasp hold and be lifted from the mire to stand on a firm foundation.

  Francine Rivers

  Jesus, Rocks, Foundation

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• Opinions are like nipples, everybody has one. Some have firm points, others are barely discernible through layers, and some are displayed at every opportunity regardless of whether the audience has stated "I am interested in your nipples" or not.

  David Thorne

  Funny, Opportunity, Interesting

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• I spoke it soft, but close enough to brush against her lips. I spoke it quiet, but near enough so that the sound of it went twining through her hair. I spoke it hard and firm and dark and sweet.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Sweet, Dark, Hair

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• She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.

  Jane Austen

  Tired, Attachment, Letters

  Jane Austen (2016). “Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen”, p.99, Pan Macmillan

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• Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Water, Cliffs

  Marcus Aurelius (1945). “Marcus Aurelius and His Times”

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