Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.
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.
Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.
I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.
A lot of people tend to chew up the scenery. I'm a firm believer in less is more, especially on the big screen.
You want to keep more of the money you earn? I'm afraid that's very selfish. We shall want to tax that away. You want to own shares in your firm? We can't have that. The state has to own your firm. You want to choose where to send your children to school? That's very divisive. You'll send your child where we tell you.
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
To build your self image, you need to join the smile, firm handshake and compliment club.
Our party remains as firm as this rock and will not be divided by any force in Germany.
What kind of wedding would you like?" he asked, and stole another kiss before she could reply. "The kind that turns you into my husband. " She touched the firm line of his mouth with her fingers. "What kind would you like?" He smiled ruefully. "A fast one.
Joe Wright [was] almost like a teacher, to be firm with me, that really stuck with me. And that helped me as I've gotten older.
You have to run the football and stop the run, no matter what level you play at, whether it's high school, college or professional ranks. I'm a firm believer in that.
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.
The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.
For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
Ive been very lucky that Ive never had cellulite. My body was always firm.
I'm So Sick is about how the world can sometimes be a sick and messed up place and how that influences us and tells us how we should live or who we should be. People do things just 'cause everyone else does and then they wonder why they feel empty all the time. Someone who has a firm stance in what they know to be true will empower empty followers to discover who they are as individuals with purposes and this creates leaders with voices of their own.
He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm.
Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail; the friend faithful and true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just and chivalrous,-in such a one there is a fragment of the Rock of Ages.
I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do.