Firm Quotes - Page 27

• Because it is such a huge crisis, because it puts us on a firm science-based deadline, it's a once-in-a-century opportunity to build a better society and address raging inequality, create huge numbers of jobs, rebuild our public infrastructure. But, we can't do it unless we break every single rule in the free-market playbook. Which is why the worst people in the world all deny climate change.

  Naomi Klein

  Jobs, Opportunity, Numbers

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• If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil.

  Jeff Goodell

  Wall, Thinking, Oil

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• I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.

  Bertrand Russell

  Stupid, Pigs, Fool

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• Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counselor.

  Duff Cooper

  Wise, Wine, Counselor

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• However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness.

  Tran ?uc Luong

  Struggle, Long, Triumph

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• Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mold, World, Willpower

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• Nowhere does one become more convinced of the strong hold which Freemasonry takes upon the minds and lives of those aging workers in the Craft who have attained its highest honors and of their firm belief in the power of its teachings to purify the soul of men and raise them to a new dignity and to greater heights of spirituality and practical morality.

  George Washington

  Strong, Teaching, Men

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• Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Atheist, Intellectual, Behavior

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• That no free government, nor the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles; and by the recognition by all citizens that they have duties as well as rights, and that such rights cannot be enjoyed save in a society where law is respected and due process is observed.

  George Mason

  Blessing, Rights, Government

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• It is my firm belief that the God of Heaven raised up the founding fathers and inspired them to establish the Constitution of this land. This is part of my religious faith. To me this is not just another nation. It is a great and glorious nation with a divine mission to perform for liberty-loving people everywhere.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Religious, Father, Land

  Ezra Taft Benson, Carlisle Bargeron (1956). “Farmers at the Crossroads”

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• What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.

  Adi Shankara

  Truth, Real, Self

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• When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen; and we shall most sincerely rejoice with you in the happy hour when the establishment of American Liberty, upon the most firm and solid foundations shall enable us to return to our Private Stations in the bosom of a free, peacefully and happy Country.

  George Washington

  Country, Soldier, Liberty

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It will begin with its President taking a simple, firm resolution. The resolution will be: To forego the diversions of politics and to concentrate on the job of ending the Korean war-until that job is honorably done. That job requires a personal trip to Korea. I shall make that trip. Only in that way could I learn how best to serve the American people in the cause of peace. I shall go to Korea.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Jobs, War, Simple

  Campaign speech, Detroit, Mich., 24 Oct. 1952

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• There is no possible negotiation with these killers. Our aim is to win over terrorism. Only by being firm we can stop terrorism. We must be firm fighting the terrorists and opposing the final aims they want to achieve.

  Jose Maria Aznar

  Fighting, Winning, Finals

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• Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.

  John Milton

  Men, Devil, Shame

  John Milton (1853). “The Paradise lost”, p.79

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• Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississippi in recent weeks. They join an impressive group of high-tech companies already doing business in our region.

  Roger Wicker

  Business, Technology, Aerospace

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• Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.

  Peter Drucker

  May, Able, Ships

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• Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set.

  Werner Herzog

  Tyrants, Vision

  "12 Things I Learned at Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School" by Marie-Françoise Theodore, www.indiewire.com. September 24, 2014.

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• I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.

  William H. Macy

  Character, Tricks, Collusion

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• To affirm is to make firm.

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Two, Three, Prosperity

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• It takes personal sacrifice to communicate when conditions are right for the other person-during the meal preparation, after a date, a hurt, a victory, a disappointment, or when someone wants to share a confidence. One must be willing to forego personal convenience to invest time in establishing a firm foundation for family communication. When communication in the family seems to be bogging down, each individual should look to himself for the remedy.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Hurt, Disappointment, Communication

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• You can have a similar experience in your own life. You can change, even if you consider yourself a "night person"...Almost any habit-good or bad-can be set in about twenty-one days. With firm resolve, we can make the needed changes in our lives.

  Joe J. Christensen

  Night, One Day, Twenties

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• Someone has said that planning is the place where man shows himself most like God. Nothing is more godlike than the planner, the thinker, the organizer. He is the one who draws the blueprint for success. He is the one who builds the roadway on which accomplishment will travel. It is likely that our greatest opportunity is to have a good set of definitely worked-out objectives that are fully believed in and about which firm determinations have been made.

  Sterling W Sill

  Determination, Men, Opportunity

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• A real miracle's a reminder and a warning that the line that separates the possible from the impossible isn't as firm as we like to think it is.

  Dirk Wittenborn

  Real, Thinking, Miracle

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