#footing

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #footing




I've enjoyed being a part of something from the beginning, when we were still finding our footing.


Douglas Wilson


#being #enjoyed #finding #footing #i

The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.


Norma Shearer


#dead #economic #economic independence #exactly #footing

Anyone who would let Gary Cooper and the entire cast go charging on horseback without first finding out what kind of footing the horses had is nuts and cannot possibly direct a motion picture.


Dick York


#cannot #cast #charging #cooper #direct

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.


John Dryden


#betray #cannot #dangers #does #footing

I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing.


Jodi Picoult


#books #carpet #find #footing #going

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.


Soren Kierkegaard


#footing #lose #momentarily #oneself

Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.


Vaclav Klaus


#agree #cannot #colleagues #compete #different

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.


Boz Scaggs


#arena #enter #even #footing #i

All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.


Walter Mosley


#civilization #cradle #eastern #exceptions #few

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.


Francis I


#famous #footing #immortality #partake #persons