#firm

There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours ↗

— Ayn Rand

#love #love

However much history may be invoked in support of these policies (affirmative action), no policy can apply to history but can only apply to the present or the future. The past may be many things, but it is clearly irrevocable. Its sins can no more be purged than its achievements can be expunged. Those who suffered in centuries past are as much beyond our help as those who sinned are beyond our retribution. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#civil-rights #racism #racism

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#any #blast #blows #firmly #set

When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep. ↗

— Michael Apted

#asleep #bbc #crying #firmly #fortune

My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm! ↗

— Dick Bruna

#been #end #father #firm #his

I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#capital #customer #exactly #firms #i

Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#carelessly #change #cigarette #especially #even

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#deny #dissolve #faith #firmly #hold

It confirms for me that we did something on Days that meant something. We had our ups and downs, but Missy and I and some of the other actors, created something that was really memorable. ↗

— Matthew Ashford

#created #days #did #downs #had

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#democracy #essence #man #melodrama #might