Solid Quotes
974 quotes by 815 authors
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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
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
— Francis Bacon
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
— Abu Bakr
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All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
— Max Beerbohm
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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
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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
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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
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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
— Thomas Carlyle
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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
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The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
— Lord Chesterfield
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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
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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
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Solid stone is just sand and water...Sand and water and a million years gone by.
— Beth Nielsen Chapman
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I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.
— Alexander Hamilton
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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