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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. – John Steinbeck	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. – André Maurois	added by anonymous 10 years ago
My thinking is that the conclusion of the collapse of these two ideologies, is that it is not for peace we should aspire, but for a solid agreement which would help us separate as efficiently as possible. – Yair Lapid	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Real and solid happiness springs from moderation. – Goethe	added by anonymous 12 years ago
As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, so wise men falter not amidst blame or praise. – The Dhammapada	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Pleasure, most often delusive, may be born of delusion. Pleasure, herself a sorceress, may pitch her tents on enchanted ground. But happiness (or, to use a more accurate and comprehensive term, solid well-being) can be built on virtue alone, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation. – Coleridge	added by anonymous 12 years ago
...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from "Love in the Time of Cholera"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. – Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12, 1936	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. – C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves	added by anonymous 13 years ago
All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind. – Communist Manifesto	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone. – Pope John XXIII	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. – Margaret Fuller	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation. – Kahlil Gibran	added by anonymous 14 years ago
So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. – Richard Buckminster Fuller	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self-gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations. – I Ching	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What used to be called liberal is now called radical, what used to be called radical is now called insane, what used to be called reactionary is now called moderate, and what used to be called insane is now called solid conservative thinking. – Tony Kushner	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly. – Frank Outlaw	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When we walk to the edge of all the light we have And take the step into the darkness of the unknown We must believe that one of two things wil happen... There will be something solid for us to stand on.. ..... or we will be taught to fly. – Patrick Overton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When you come to the end of everything you know And are faced with the darkness of the unknown, Faith is knowing one of two things will happen. Either there will be something solid for you to stand on, Or you will be taught how to fly. – Barbara J. Winter	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Marriage. Why do we do it Everybody knows the stats. One in two marriages end up in broken dishes and a trip to Tijuana. Is it loneliness Partly. Is it teamwork Definitely. Things just kind of go easier when there's two of you. One of you can wait in line at the movie theater while the other guy parks the car. Get better seats that way. Better room rate when it's a double. Are you ready to file jointly...Above you is the sun and sky. Below you, the ground. Like the sun, your love should be constant, like the ground, solid. – Jed Seidel	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. – Martin Luther King, Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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