Stand Firm

Famous quotes containing the words stand and/or firm:

    Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are
    a hundred that will stand adversity.
    Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

    Who has not felt the beauty of a woman’s arm?—the unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)