Quotes About Foothold

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

I had a house in Haiti, in the hills above the North Atlantic coast. The house appeared as if out of a dream: my dream to have a foothold in the country. Like many concepts do in Haiti, the phrase 'pied a terre' became literal, material.

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 his getting a foothold.

Russia, their number one client in the Middle East is Syria; that is their foothold in the Middle East. They want to have influence there.

We know that ISIS desires operationally to use the Syrian refugee program to infiltrate countries, to use migrant flows as a way to gain an operational foothold in other countries.

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.

We had a guide, if you can call him a guide - a sadist, in the clinical sense. What can you say about a man like that; he searched in life for his foothold and he found this one.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

To be present in history, even as nothing more than a chuckle, was a universe away from being absent from it, from being written out of it altogether. A chuckle, after all, could become a foothold in the sheer wall of the future.

Snow pursued by the wind is not wholly unlike a retreating army. In the open field it ranges itself in ranks and battalions; where it can get a foothold it makes a stand; where it can take cover it does so. You may see whole platoons of snow cowering behind a bit of broken wall.

Dance has given me so many opportunities including a foothold into filmdom.

Now is the time for us to strike. We must strengthen our foothold in Asia, to ensure no nation overtakes us.

Raj Khosla's 'Mera Gaon Mera Desh' was my truly memorable performance as a villain during my initial years. After that I did receive the required foothold in the film industry.

and do not give the devil a foothold.