#solid

I hope lots of people will join the solidarity march on May 7th and I hope things will change. ↗

— Anne Campbell

#hope #i #join #lots #march

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#mind #mouth #object #opening #shut

Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm. ↗

— Carlo Collodi

#cold #common #cozy #expensive #far

The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great mountain ranges. There are still plenty of shell layers. We notice them, even thicker and more solid ones. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

#closer #even #foot #gets #great

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#classic #complete #instead #make #museums

If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#built #could #days #dwell #fires

We wanted the language to feel fresh, fun, and rock solid. ↗

— James Frank

#fresh #fun #language #rock #solid

As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#even #every #extremely #finally #good

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#find #happiness #man #marriage #most

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

#dualism #fact #female #feminine #fluid