Top 46 Solvent Quotes
#1. Wherever a tension needed the solvent of good-will, or friction the oil of benevolence; wherever suspicion needed the antidote of frankness, or wounded pride the disinfectant of a hearty laugh - there Taft was sent.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#2. Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of the sands. On solvent farmlands lupines do not even grow, much less collect a daily rainbow of jewels.
Aldo Leopold
#3. If rather than setting the minimum balance as the lowest possible amount, so we keep people in debt for as long as possible, we raise the minimum payment and encourage people to pay off their credit cards, we're going to make less money, but we're going to have costumers that are more solvent.
Richard Thaler
#4. Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly reunions ...
Margaret Deland
#5. The machine, the structure, was there, was real. Virek's money was a sort of universal solvent, dissolving barriers to his will . . .
William Gibson
#6. American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.
George Santayana
#7. We think it would be safer if the Bank of England had responsibility for solvency regulation of UK-based banks, as well as having an overall duty to keep the system solvent. Otherwise, there could be dangerous delays if a banking crisis did hit.
John Redwood
#8. Los Angeles residents are going to vote on a tax on anything sold in a medical marijuana dispensary. If the measure passes the city could be solvent within 45 minutes.
Conan O'Brien
#9. You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent, stop grieving. You will learn to compound happiness out of small increments of mindless pleasure.
Jay McInerney
#10. Give it time, I thought. I grow on people; I'm like an industrial solvent, I'll wear you down...
Wilton Barnhardt
#11. Reality is a powerful solvent.
Tony Judt
#12. The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.
Rand Paul
#13. Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with great works rather than having to just see them in museums. People who are buying art at the top of the market as an investment are foolish.
Arne Glimcher
#14. It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank.
John George Nicolay
#15. Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.
Honore De Balzac
#16. Would to God I were rid of this nether millstone within me, this hateful body of death. Blessed be the name of the Lord, the disease is not incurable, the Saviour's precious blood is the universal solvent, and me, even me, it will effectually soften, till my heart melts as wax before the fire.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#17. Notes of joy have a special STP solvent in them that dissolves all the gluey engine deposits of heartache. War and woe don't have anything like the range and reach that notes of joy do.
Nicholson Baker
#18. What is the value of the Gnani's [the enlightened one's] feet? It is a value that is immeasurable. The Gnani's feet is one & the only solvent to dissolve egoism.
Dada Bhagwan
#19. I urge you to live within your means. One cannot spend more than one earns and remain solvent. I promise you that you will then be happier than you would be if you were constantly worrying about how to make the next payment on nonessential debt.
Thomas S. Monson
#20. Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free.
Shannon L. Alder
#21. I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.
James Cash Penney
#22. Credibility is a leader's currency. With it, he or she is solvent; without it, he or she is bankrupt.
John C. Maxwell
#23. In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we have the capacity to meet our obligations.
Luis De Guindos
#24. We are in the position of the man who has only two ambitions in life. One is to invent the universal solvent which will dissolve any solid substance, and the second is to invent the universal container which will hold any liquid. Whatever this inventor does, he will be frustrated.
Norbert Wiener
#25. Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.
Paul Hoffman
#26. Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#27. Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness.
Susan Sontag
#29. Firewater Sometimes I think how alcohol's a marvelous solvent, can remove red people from a continent, turn bronze to guilt. What was DuPont's old motto - Better things for better living through chemistry? You take potatoes from Peru, barley from Palestine, maize from Mexico, sugar cane from
MariJo Moore
#31. Heat is a universal solvent, melting out of things their power of resistance, and sucking away and removing their natural strength with its fiery exhalations so that they grow soft, and hence weak, under its glow.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
#32. It builds cathedrals before the workmen have moved a stone, and it destroys them before the elements have worn down their arches. It is the architect of the buildings of the spirit, and it is also their solvent: - and the spiritual precedes the material.
Alfred North Whitehead
#33. William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'.
Adrian Desmond
#34. The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business.
William Faulkner
#35. Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.
Kurt Vonnegut
#36. Because its hard to realize now that that was the end of the great depression, you know. All of a sudden all of this is in front of me and I'm solvent, you know. I'm making some money and I know where my next meal is coming from, and I have a new pair of shoes and that's it.
Robert McCloskey
#37. Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.
Honore De Balzac
#39. In light of these facts Republicans have put forth a variety of proposals to make Social Security remain solvent for future generations. But up to this point, Democrats have chosen to oppose our good faith efforts and insist that indeed there is no problem.
John Doolittle
#40. Astrobiologists now believe that the existence of life throughout the universe requires: 1. a source of energy; 2. a type of atom that allows complex structures to exist; 3. a liquid solvent in which molecules can float and interact; and 4. sufficient time for life to arise and to evolve.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#41. Who was it said that memory is what we thought we'd forgotten? And it ought to be obvious to us that time doesn't act as a fixative, rather as a solvent. But it's not convenient
it's not useful
to believe this; it doesn't help us get on with our lives; so we ignore it. [p. 69]
Julian Barnes
#42. The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
Garet Garrett
#43. Pell Grants open a lot of doors, but they rely on a solvent government.
Denny Rehberg
#44. Communication is the solvent of all problems and is the foundation for personal development.
Peter Shepherd
#46. Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.
Paul Hoffman
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