Quotes About Firmness

God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness . It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point of necessity when they are adolescents.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Never compromise your resoluteness.

For often even the sad can become happy by displaying strength and firmness; they are not made happy by lightheartedness, nor by frivolity, laughing, or joking, which is the companion of shallowness.

But the beauty which Paresh Babu saw in her face was not that of complexion or features, but of the soul which there found its expression,—not just the pleasantness of a faultless shape but the firmness of strength, the brightness of independence,—characteristics which attract a chosen few, but repel most others.

An enraged man is a lion, a cunning man is a fox, a firm man is a rock, a learned man is a torch.

We have no ideas, and they're pretty firm.

Be strong, courageous, and firm; fear not nor be in terror before them, for it is the Lord your God Who goes with you; He will not fail you or forsake you. DEUTERONOMY 31:6

You were wearing your hair up like that the day we left for Harbor Springs, he said, his deep voice pitched seductively low. I like it. In that case, Lauren said lightly, I'll start wearing it down. He grinned. So that's the way we're going to play it,is it? Play what? This little game we started yesterday. I am not playing your game, she said with quiet firmness. I do not want the prize.

And she cannot be a day over thirty-five," he said adamantly. "I have noticed that after that the fruit becomes . . . less firm.

Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

El tiempo de los violentos ya se acabo ... y ahora es nuestro tiempo, el de la gente civil, el de la gente que quiere construir paz pero con firmeza. Somos suaves y dulces, pacificos y manzos, pero firmes hasta las ultimas consecuencias. Por eso hemos ganado sobre los violentos. Por eso ganaremos sobre la gente que no sabe dialogar. Hemos perdido el miedo desde hace muchos anos, porque nos atenazo demasiado. Animo ... fuerza.

An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. ... a crisis that calls for firmness and restraint.

I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that

Era tempo, diceva l'oroscopo, di agire con positiva fermezza, prendere ardue decisioni, vedere cosa occorresse fare e farlo. Era tutto assai difficile per lui, ma, sapeva il Capo, nessuno aveva mai detto che fare cose difficili non fosse difficile.

My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.

Be firm in yoga and arise!" (4.42).

I don't do carrots.

Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.

God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.

God is the ROCK of all ages.