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I’ve talked to the defenders of Mariupol today. I’m in constant contact with them. Their determination, heroism and firmness are astonishing, if only those who have been thinking for 31 days on how to hand over dozens of jets and tanks had 1% of their courage. – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We are facing a national emergency. We chose from the beginning to take the line of truth and transparency and now we're moving with lucidity and courage, with firmness and determination, we have to limit the spread of the virus and prevent our hospitals from being overwhelmed. – Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Firmness, shape, color, texture of skin, and aroma are keys to selecting the freshest produce, for example, a fresh broccoli would be firm, closed, dark-green florets, and tender stalks. Yellowing green-colored heads of broccoli are over mature. – Shuresh Ghimire	Found on CNN 4 years ago
But my belief is that tournament golf should be a test to find out who is the best golfer that week, far too many tournaments have eliminated the rough and firmness of greens, and that is just not my idea of what the game of golf should be. – Jack Nicklaus	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We want to combine being open to innovation with firmness on regulation. This is in everyone's interest. – Francois Villeroy de Galhau	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Our objective is one of total firmness. – Edouard Philippe	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The interior minister must be hard of hearing because he has heard ‘firmness, firmness,’. – Alain Esmery	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It is to you, my sister, that I write for the last time. I have just been condemned, not to a shameful death, for such is only for criminals, but to go and rejoin your brother. Innocent like him, I hope to show the same firmness in my last moments. – Marie Antoinette	added by regnumveritatis 6 years ago
Despite recent market firmness, large deals still face resistance given the risk-off environment and weak technicals: fund outflows, buyers on strike and the slowing CLO machine, we expect a muddle through economy rather than a recession this year. – Sean Coleman	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We need to reinstate firmness and authority in this country. – Nicolas Sarkozy on a fast-track	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Public opinion will not be content with compassion. It will judge the president on his actions, he ticked the right boxes in his Versailles speech in terms of authority, firmness and martial tone. He did the job. He showed once again he can handle outsize events. – Frederic Dabi	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I was struck by the firmness with which she wanted us in Britain to stick it, to take it to Putin. – Boris Johnson	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I’ve had about three now and I immediately saw a response when I saw some of the spots going away, and also firmness around my eyes, after using just one. – Gabrielle Garritano	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve. – Robert Burns	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing. – Alexander Hamilton	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The worse the ill that fate on noble souls Inflicts, the more their firmness; and they arm Their spirits with adamant to meet the blow. – Hindu Drama	added by anonymous 12 years ago
He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision. – John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. – Charles Caleb Colton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies. – Philip Dormer Chesterfield	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. – George Washington	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections. – Thomas Fuller	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color. – Seneca	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. – Charles Caleb Colton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I’ve talked to the defenders of Mariupol today. I’m in constant contact with them. Their determination, heroism and firmness are astonishing, if only those who have been thinking for 31 days on how to hand over dozens of jets and tanks had 1% of their courage.

– Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We are facing a national emergency. We chose from the beginning to take the line of truth and transparency and now we're moving with lucidity and courage, with firmness and determination, we have to limit the spread of the virus and prevent our hospitals from being overwhelmed.

– Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Firmness, shape, color, texture of skin, and aroma are keys to selecting the freshest produce, for example, a fresh broccoli would be firm, closed, dark-green florets, and tender stalks. Yellowing green-colored heads of broccoli are over mature.

– Shuresh Ghimire

Found on CNN
4 years ago

But my belief is that tournament golf should be a test to find out who is the best golfer that week, far too many tournaments have eliminated the rough and firmness of greens, and that is just not my idea of what the game of golf should be.

– Jack Nicklaus

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We want to combine being open to innovation with firmness on regulation. This is in everyone's interest.

– Francois Villeroy de Galhau

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Our objective is one of total firmness.

– Edouard Philippe

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The interior minister must be hard of hearing because he has heard ‘firmness, firmness,’.

– Alain Esmery

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It is to you, my sister, that I write for the last time. I have just been condemned, not to a shameful death, for such is only for criminals, but to go and rejoin your brother. Innocent like him, I hope to show the same firmness in my last moments.

– Marie Antoinette

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

Despite recent market firmness, large deals still face resistance given the risk-off environment and weak technicals: fund outflows, buyers on strike and the slowing CLO machine, we expect a muddle through economy rather than a recession this year.

– Sean Coleman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We need to reinstate firmness and authority in this country.

– Nicolas Sarkozy on a fast-track

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Public opinion will not be content with compassion. It will judge the president on his actions, he ticked the right boxes in his Versailles speech in terms of authority, firmness and martial tone. He did the job. He showed once again he can handle outsize events.

– Frederic Dabi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I was struck by the firmness with which she wanted us in Britain to stick it, to take it to Putin.

– Boris Johnson

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I’ve had about three now and I immediately saw a response when I saw some of the spots going away, and also firmness around my eyes, after using just one.

– Gabrielle Garritano

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

– Robert Burns

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

– Alexander Hamilton

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The worse the ill that fate on noble souls Inflicts, the more their firmness; and they arm Their spirits with adamant to meet the blow.

– Hindu Drama

added by anonymous
12 years ago

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.

– John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859