Quotes About Solid

her umbrella was of the same style as that of their formidable friend from Egypt, solid enough to knock a man unconscious, with a sharpened ferrule that could, at a pinch, be used to stab someone.

No intelligent investor, no matter how starved for yield, would ever buy a stock for its dividend income alone; the company and its businesses must be solid, and its stock price must be reasonable.

To feel the coolness of the blue glass, like solid pieces of the sea.

The summer air in the colonies had an unpleasant solid quality to it. Rather like fog, if one heated it to the temperature of one's body.

We shall not allow ourselves to repeat the often-voiced opinion that "civilizations are mortal." Mortal perhaps are their ephemeral blooms, the intricate and short-lived creations of an age, their economic triumphs and their social trials, in the short term. But their foundations remain. They are not indestructible, but they are many times more solid than one might imagine.

L'Islam, durant le printemps de son expansion, ne fait que rendre vie à l'antique civilisation orientale (...). Il s'agit là d'une civilisation solide e édifiée sur des régions fort riches, auprès desquelles l'Arabie fait très pauvre figure.

But though society had not it's formal beginning from any convention of individuals, actuated by their wants and their fears; yet it is the sense of their weakness and imperfection that keeps mankind together; that demonstrates the necessity of this union; and that therefore is the solid and natural foundation, as well as the cement, of society.

By the 1680s, Venice's canals were freezing solid in winter, something no one alive had ever witnessed.

The reason to deal with Social Security is that it is a system where we have a tradition and history of making sure it is solidly funded for 75 years. At the moment, we look out and we see it is solidly funded until 2037.

I believe history and tradition is something solid and something we can rest on. I am not crazy about putting new spices in chocolate.

Driving a car is no longer about zooming down clear lanes, the joy and freedom of the road flowing through your hair like a fine westerly breeze. It's about solid traffic, petrol fumes, spy cameras, eco-guilt, and simultaneous social media.

A certain style of modern detective fiction might show our hero rushing to a terribly clever supposition by page sixteen and spending the rest of the novel proving himself right, but for your long-suffering actual policeman there is merely painstaking elimination and solid detective work, which means questioning every possible suspect.

We are made up of energy in all stages of life and death. We just change from a liquid to a solid and then to a gas.

We best oppose error by promoting a solid knowledge of the word of truth, and the greatest kindness we can do to children, is to make them early to know the Bible.

But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority

Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

Eight solid light-years of lead...is the thickness of that metal in which you would need to encase yourself if you wanted to keep from being touched by neutrinos. I guess the little fuckers are everywhere.

It was no longer an unexplained blip on his radar. There was now something solid there, and it needed to be explained and understood

I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.

Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough.

And in 1998, quantum teleportation was demonstrated in three laboratories around the world—in Innsbruck, in Rome and at Cal Tech.3 Physicist Jeff Kimble, leader of the Cal Tech team, said that quantum teleportation could be applied to solid objects:

My love is like a tire iron.

I love Tumi because of the lifetime guarantee. And their luggage is just so solid. Looks good. Versatile. My carry-on bag is Tumi. My hanging bag is Tumi. My big suitcase is Tumi. All black. Love it.