Substantial

Famous quotes containing the word substantial:

    All would be well
    Could we but give us wholly to the dreams,
    And get into their world that to the sense
    Is shadow, and not linger wretchedly
    Among substantial things....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens, a substantial part of its whole population, who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life. I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)