Substantial Quotes

281 quotes by 257 authors

Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial relief… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patrick White is a strongly individual, richly gifted, original and highly significant writer whose powers are remarkable and whose achievement is large. His art is… — William Walsh
Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being , and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate.… — Ronald Reagan
Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality. — Richard Gere
Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present… — Hart Crane
The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it… — Lauryn Hill
A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity… — Tim Holden
There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and… — Charles Ives
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead. — Jesse Jackson
You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people are mildly… — Daniel Kahneman
Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention. — Daniel Kahneman
I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, 'That's a huge idea.' Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the… — Val Kilmer
Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing. — Charles Lamb
Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are substantial melodies underneath the tracks -… — Jon Landau
I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial… — Jaron Lanier
National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties. — Theresa May
I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do… — Helen Mirren
Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them… — Janet Napolitano

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