Unfirm Quotes & Sayings

If the subject's easy we may all be wise;
What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows. — Ovid

Lonely women destroy themselves; lonely men threaten the world. — Victor LaValle

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are. — William Shakespeare

She was like that, excited and delighted by little things, crossing her fingers before any remotely unpredictable event, like tasting a new flavor of ice cream, or dropping a letter in a mailbox. It was a quality he did not understand. It made him feel stupid, as if the world contained hidden wonders he could not anticipate, or see. He looked at her face, which, it occurred to him, had not grown out of its girlhood, the eyes untroubled, the pleasing features unfirm, as if they still had to settle into some sort of permanent expression. Nicknamed after a nursery rhyme, she had yet to shed a childhood endearment. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Every sunny familiar spot in our shared landscape had become a dark minefield, fraught with treacherous nuances and implications. — Tana French

Rockefeller equated silence with strength: Weak men had loose tongues and blabbed to reporters, while prudent businessmen kept their own counsel. — Ron Chernow

A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty. — Charles B. Rangel

She is unapologetic
She is wild with her heart
She is free
She is art
Though some can't figure her out
She's an incredible mess
That's just how she likes it. — Jasmine Sandozz

A person's reason for doing someone a good turn matters as much as the good turn itself. — Michael Ende

Let still woman take
An elder than herself: so wears she to him,
So sways she level in her husband's heart,
For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,
More longing, wavering, sooner to be lost and warn,
Than women's are. — William Shakespeare