Substantial Quotes

281 Substantial quotes by 257 unique authors

The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review… — Joyce Carol Oates
The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource - the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. Substantial… — Eric Ries
There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was… — Charlie Sheen
As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender… — Henry L. Stimson
Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement. — Tacitus
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies. — William Howard Taft
It seems that elections today are more popularity than they are substantial issues. — Jesse Ventura
I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well. — Rufus Wainwright
Next thing you know she'll be on the bus and selling T-shirts in the parking lot, showing off her boobs to get in the stage… — Sarah Dessen
As I get older I find that the friendships that are the most certain, ultimately, are the ones where you and the other person have… — Jonathan Lethem
Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself. — Erica Jong
Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh… — William Wordsworth
On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and… — Winston Churchill
The participation if women in some armies in the world is in reality only symbolic. The talk about the role of Zionist women in fighting… — Saddam Hussein
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers… — W. Somerset Maugham
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing,… — Mark Twain
Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the… — P.G. Wodehouse
My sisters and I cannot spend any substantial time searching for Wickham, as we are each commanded by His Majesty to defend Hertfordshire from all… — Seth Grahame-Smith
And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading. — Jane Austen

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