| "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 |
| "The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "figures won't lie, but liars can figure." »Beth Knight |
| "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 |
| "I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me." »Toni Morrison |
| "Inflation is like a woman's waistline the figure(s) is(are) always more than what is potrayed...." »Siddharth Astir |
| "He would come in and say he changed his mind -- which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn't have any." »Mark Twain |
| "Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not." »Virgil Garnett Thomson |
| "Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punchline." »John Guarrine |
| "What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid-gold baby Maybe we'll never know." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on." »Woody Allen |
| "My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right" »Charles Monroe Schultz |
| "Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up." »James Magary |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." »Michael Jordon |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves." »Elias Canetti |
| "Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger." »Cicero |
| "Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size." »Virginia Woolf |
| "Rarely do we find men who willingly to 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. |
| "For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros." »Ethel Barrymore |
| "You know how to paint a room real fast Just put paint rollers on your feet and somehow figure out how to skate up the walls and across the ceiling." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "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 |
| "We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure--full of surprises. Some good. Some bad." »Henry Bromel |
| "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 |
| "It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity." »Alexander Hamilton |
| "I wish I lived back in the Old West days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years so I could buy a solid-gold pick. Then I'd go out west and start digging for gold. When someone came up and asked what I was doing, I'd say, 'Looking for gold, ya durn fool.' He'd say, 'Your pick is gold.' And I'd say, 'well, that was easy.' Good joke, huh" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
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