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)