| "The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things." »Jilly Cooper |
| "Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness." »Charles Caleb Colton |
| "An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. ... a crisis that calls for firmness and restraint." »James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr. |
| "In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, firmness and Delight." »Henry Watton |
| "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." »Phyllis Mcginley |
| "I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference. (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)" »Dwight D Eisenhower |
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