A Quote by Richard Holbrooke

As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.

Richard Holbrooke

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Behind Countries Evil Hold Left Left Behind Modernity Modernization People Tend View

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Richard Holbrooke
American - Public Servant
April 24, 1941 - December 13, 2010

Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind; so faith takes firmer hold when it struggles with adverse appearances.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

When God gives a promise, He always tries our faith. Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind, so faith takes a firmer hold when it struggles with adverse appearances.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time," he said callously. "Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for one night. And they do say that abstinence makes the heart grow firmer, no?" "Absence," I said, dodging the spoon for a moment. "AND fonder. If anything's growing firmer from abstinence, it wouldn't be his heart.

Diana Gabaldon

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

Irving Stone

Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb... he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

Douglas MacArthur

The tired ox treads with a firmer step.

St. Jerome

I walk firmer and more secure uphill than down.

Michel de Montaigne

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

Dag Hammarskjold

Here in England, you do need to be firmer, harder on the pitch. That's just the way it is.

Oscar

You have to tailor yourself to everybody. Sometimes people need a firmer hand; some people you can have a laugh with, and they concentrate more. What they needed was more certainty about the future of the company.

Mike Krieger

Time doesn't heal scars as most people commonly think. It simply makes them firmer, stiffer. One must accept it and not hope to mend and return to what he or she once was.

Virginia C. Andrews

My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.

Mahatma Gandhi

I may add that the result of my 45 years of study of the Bible has led me all the time to a firmer faith that in the Old Testament, we have a true historical account of the history of the Israelite people.

Robert Dick Wilson

Whether we like it or not, the modernity is something that comes from Western countries, and when the modernity comes to the Eastern countries, although they feel like they really need it, at the same time it shakes the very fundament of the culture - there is always this challenge between the two.

Asghar Farhadi

I really got consumed with the idea of how people who are deemed crazy or insane often have a firmer grasp on reality than normal people. The average person goes through life thinking it will go on forever.