Solid Quotes

974 quotes by 815 authors

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back… — Sai Baba
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. — Francis Bacon
Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice. — Abu Bakr
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality. — Max Beerbohm
In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in which the One Reality shows… — Annie Besant
If I'm going to act in someone's movie, I want the movie to be interesting and be able to get a couple of solid doubles. — Albert Brooks
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is… — Van Wyck Brooks
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. — Thomas Carlyle
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a… — Thomas Carlyle
The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation. — Lord Chesterfield
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I've used a lot of jersey, but I've also done a lot of complex pattern weaves in these fabrics in solid colors, and there are… — Giorgio Armani
Jesus means something to our world because a mighty spiritual force streams forth from him and flows through our being also. This fact can neither… — Albert Schweitzer
Solid stone is just sand and water...Sand and water and a million years gone by. — Beth Nielsen Chapman
I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed. — Alexander Hamilton
Give me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my own neighbors, and… — Alexander Hamilton
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic… — Fritjof Capra
female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them… — Thomas Jefferson
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of… — John Buchan
It was Indian summer, a bluebird sort of day as we call it in the north, warm and sunny, without a breath of wind; the… — Sigurd F. Olson

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