#solid

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#ends #family #first #friends #gratification

Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#body #curious #doing #got #how

The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace? ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#durable #elements #essential #essential elements #foundation

After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#around #bob #bob dylan #debate #dylan

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#care #considerable #danger #elephant #even

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#i #resistance #should #solidarity #suppose

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#against #art #attention #care #consists

France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for it to then fall into egotism or 'each for one's own'. Our duty is to set common rules around the principles of responsibility and solidarity. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#around #been #between #bridge #common

I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#basic #campaign #distance #each #french

We're all taking part in this solidarity. The French, the Germans, just like all the Europeans in the ESM. Let's stop thinking that there's only one country who's going to pay for the others. That's false. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#europeans #false #french #germans #going