Solid Quotes
974 quotes by 815 authors
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Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as…
— George Eliot
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Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? I remember at the time of the wreck-- people…
— Walker Percy
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It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no…
— E. M. Forster
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French is the most beautiful,†he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business…
— Pearl S. Buck
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Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good.
— Thomas Wolfe
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Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.
— Erin Morgenstern
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The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table,…
— Jodi Picoult
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It came down to the smallest things, really, that a person could do to say I’m sorry, to say it’s okay, to say I forgive…
— Sara Zarr
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Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano…
— Haruki Murakami
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I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being like a nearly…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Kaldar smiled at her. Now there was a work of art. If she were just a girl and he were just a man, and they…
— Ilona Andrews
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But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You…
— Ron Rash
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The floor is solid metal in some places and metal grating in others. Everything smells like rotting garbage and fire. "Don't say I never took…
— Veronica Roth
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Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end with a thumb-riffle,…
— John Crowley
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Now that's a concept that's always fascinated me: the real world. Only a very specific subset of people use the term, have you noticed? To…
— Tana French
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Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it…
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
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... the food was good solid stuff for a cold morning, all calories and fat and protein and maybe a vitamin crying softly because it…
— Terry Pratchett
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Remain cheerful, For nothing destructive can pierce through The solid wall of cheerfulness.
— Sri Chinmoy
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Strength is the ability to break up a solid piece of chocolate—and then eat just one of the pieces.
— Jill Shalvis
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He's solid. "You're fractured." He's hopeful. "You're hopeless." He's always there. "You're half there." He's faithful. "You're so not." He's giving. "You're afraid to give."…
— Ellen Hopkins
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