Quotes About Substance

#1. It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.

Helen Keller

#2. She would never be caught unprepared again, she swore to herself. She would never trust. Never love. Never put faith in other human beings again. She would learn all she could of the shape and substance of the world, and she would find a way to survive in it.

David Anthony Durham

#3. Love is form, and cannot be without
important substance

Charles Olson

#4. The main substance of our universe is LOVE
Everything else comes right behind it!

Timothy Pina

#5. Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

Dee Hock

#6. If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.

Jesse Jackson

#7. Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time.

Paul Twitchell

#8. O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!
Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!

William Shakespeare

#9. All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.

Marcus Aurelius

#10. My hair is pure. It stands for purity because no foreign chemicals or substances has ever touched my hair.

CM Punk

#11. Perhaps I will be a great man ... I mean perhaps I will hold on to the substance of truth and find my way always with the right course

Lorraine Hansberry

#12. You can't have style if you don't have substance.

Ozwald Boateng

#13. CHAPTER XXIII WHICH CONTAINS THE SUBSTANCE OF A PLEASANT CONVERSATION BETWEEN MR. BUMBLE AND A LADY; AND SHEWS THAT EVEN A BEADLE MAY BE SUSCEPTIBLE ON SOME POINTS

Charles Dickens

#14. In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

Warren Buffett

#15. Goals give life substance. - To strive actively to achieve some goal gives your life meaning and substance.

Bruce Lee

#16. There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,
is, in form as well as substance, poetry; and a volume which should contain the condensed wisdom of mankind need not have one rhythmless line.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.

Gaston Bachelard

#18. We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

Les Brown

#19. Now many such things may be done without intitling the people to rise in arms. A gross, flagrant, and palpable abuse no doubt will do it, as if they should be required to pay a tax equal to half or third of their substance.

Adam Smith

#20. If we're building high quality companies, if the customers like the products, if the technology innovation is real, then the substance is going to win out in the end.

Marc Andreesen

#21. Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.

Aristotle.

#22. If you are without bread, how much wisdom can you boast and of what real utility are your talents, if you cannot procure for yourselves and save against a day of scarcity those substances designed to sustain your natural lives?

Brigham Young

#23. Sunrise is starting to feel like a guilt trip.

Kris Kidd

#24. I am Gravity, I am That against which the Rocket must struggle, to which the pre-historic wastes submit and are transmuted to the very substance of History.

Thomas Pynchon

#25. Matter and energy are the same thing, that size is an illusion, and that time is a material substance.

Madeleine L'Engle

#26. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrew 11:1 KJV)

Anonymous

#27. In any situation you can think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear, while patience represents substance and strength.

Jim Rohn

#28. One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.

Jean Rhys

#29. I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.

Ella Maillart

#30. Protein bars, protein flapjacks, protein granola, protein ice cream and protein coconut water ... To look at the health-food aisles, you'd think that protein was a substance no one could overeat. Even bread now comes in protein-enriched form.

Bee Wilson

#31. Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

Richard Dreyfuss

#32. I am demonstrating to you how tasty I think words are. I'm having sex with words in front of you. I'm playing around with them. I'm getting off. I'm trying to titillate you. There's this magical substance, language, that I'm laying out for you. Then you're going to fondle it.

Wayne Koestenbaum

#33. Creative power is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.

Thomas Troward

#34. Royal jelly is the substance that worker bees produce and feed to the queen bee. Because the queen bee is the only bee that is fertile within the colony, laying around 2000 eggs per day, this substance is considered to help promote fertility in humans as well.

Sally Moran

#35. Whatever else the election of Barack Obama represented - some have called it redemption, others have called it the triumph of style over substance - it was the ultimate victory for people who believe that black political gains are of utmost importance to black progress in America.

Jason L. Riley

#36. Nothing so enchants attorneys general, their eyes generally fixed on higher public office, as slinging accusations against successful financial executives. Preening press conferences and fawning media coverage are virtually guaranteed, whether or not the charges have substance.

Kenneth Langone

#37. I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#38. Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand.

James Elkins

#39. I remember vividly my student days, spending hours at the light microscope, turning endlessly the micrometric screw, and gazing at the blurred boundary which concealed the mysterious ground substance where the secret mechanisms of cell life might be found.

Albert Claude

#40. Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it.

Barry Commoner

#41. Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.

George Iles

#42. The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance.

Otto Heinrich Warburg

#43. What has no substance can penetrate what has no opening.

Laozi

#44. In a state of pseudo-death you restore your substance.

Marlene Van Niekerk

#45. Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.

Thomas More

#46. Roger Bacon held that three classes of substance were capable of magic: the herbal, the mineral, and the verbal. With their leaves of fiber, their inks of copperas and soot, and their words, books are an amalgam of the three.

Matthew Battles

#47. We all think we have time, you know. It's this miracle substance and there seems to be so much of it, and then all of a sudden, it's gone.

Eloisa James

#48. In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance

James Madison

#49. Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.

Kim Novak

#50. Must look into the botanical background of substance known as hashish, I jotted in my journal, writing by the light of candles that grew incessantly jewel-like even as protean wafts of incense approached my snout like platters of ripe fruits borne on the back of Nubian pages.

Tom Robbins

#51. Door VIII. A Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X. The Substance of the Shadow

Charles Dickens

#52. Though (the Tao) is uncreated itself, it creates all things. Because it has no substance, it can enter into where there is no space. Exercising by returning to itself, winning victories by remaining gentle and yielding, it is softer than anything, and therefore overcomes everything hard.

Laozi

#53. My craziest ideas come from cartoons. I approach music by taking that cartoon extreme and the real life extreme and finding somewhere in the middle. The animated element lures people in, but the real-life substance puts the nail in the coffin.

Busta Rhymes

#54. Women have come a long way over the past 20 years, but in substance abuse and addiction, women have come the wrong way.

Joseph A. Califano Jr.

#55. Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#56. I think I enjoy playing human beings no matter the substance of their character.

Ezra Miller

#57. [A vitamin is] a substance you get sick from if you don't eat it.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#58. That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

Charles Caleb Colton

#59. An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number of cases seen and the number of cases assimilated is the measure of experience.

Wilfred Trotter

#60. When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death. For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.

Giordano Bruno

#61. What you do and what you are gradually become the same thing, and are identical when you die. And what you have done to another person becomes a part of your substance as surely as a fruit you have eaten.

Patricia Storace

#62. Gay sexuality inevitably involves brutal physical abusiveness and the unnatural imposition of alien substances into internal organs, orally and anally, that inevitably suppress the immune system and heighten susceptibility to disease.

Rod Parsley

#63. The one and only time an archangel can Make another angel is when our bodies produce a substance known as ambrosia. Ambrosia,is produced instinctively at a single point in an archangel's life. It is legend that ambrosia only rises when an archangel loves true.

Nalini Singh

#64. Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science).

Paul Tillich

#65. Words enable us to transfer our thoughts from inside our own mind into the mind of another. They have the power to alter history, to describe the past, and to bring meaning and substance to the present.

Jim Rohn

#66. I am clouded and bruised with the print of minds and faces and things so subtle that they have smell, colour, texture, substance, but no name.

Virginia Woolf

#67. Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.

Vitruvius

#68. I had ignored that black cellar and gone looking for the substance of Orgoreyn aboveground, in daylight. No wonder nothing had seemed real. I

Ursula K. Le Guin

#69. There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#70. Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.

Peter Latham

#71. We must have something of substance to say in our worship [services] that reminds us why Christ's story is so unique and so utterly essential.

Keith Getty

#72. 'Vogue' celebrates plenty of women of substance.

Tina Brown

#73. The Society likes to keep things from us, but the wind doesn't care what we know. It brings hints of what has happened as we slip farther into the canyon - the smell of smoke and a white substance that falls on us. White ash. I don't for one moment think that it's snow.

Ally Condie

#74. Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.

Ambrose Bierce

#75. Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen Hey, you

Wilson Mizner

#76. You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into ... the Twilight Zone.

Rod Serling

#77. There is one domain in which untruth is insupportable, that field of the human soul's endeavor of which Truth is the very substance and being, - religion

Alvin Boyd Kuhn

#78. That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is not bone, but brain.

Hugh Miller

#79. I am convinced that in times such as these, every man must be a soldier, in substance as well as in name.

Seishiro Itagaki

#80. For, as the substance of the brain, like that of the other solids of our body, is nearly incompressible, the quantity of blood within the head must be the same, or very nearly the same, at all times, whether in health or disease, in life or after death.

Alexander Monro

#81. Because he believed that if you wanted to get rid of a hole, you filled it. He had not realized at the time that there were all sorts of filler that took up space, but had no substance. That made you feel just as empty.

Jodi Picoult

#82. I do not think I was afraid. There must be substance to breed fear, and I was hollow.

Tanith Lee

#83. If he were any other man, I might have suspected him of substance abuse, of being coked up or something. But Barrons was too much a purist for that; his drugs were money, power, and control

Karen Marie Moning

#84. Fears that formaldehyde from vaccines may cause cancer are similar to fears of mercury and aluminum, in that they coalesce around miniscule amounts of the substance in question, amounts considerably smaller than amounts from other common sources of exposure to the same substance.

Eula Biss

#85. Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.

Ethan Zuckerman

#86. Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.

Stanley Schmidt

#87. Fiction is only a set of colors, however beautiful, passing over the landscape for a time - the spirit, perhaps, but not the substance.

Bill Bonanno

#88. We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to complete the stable group of another atom, and that an acid is one which can employ a lone pair from another molecule in completing the stable group of one of its own atoms.

Gilbert Newton Lewis

#89. I was a blank canvas, no thoughts, no emotions, no needs or desires, just a square of white floating through a loud, chaotic world, and life would paint me with color and substance, smear and spread and colorize me.

Jasinda Wilder

#90. Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

Thomas Carlyle

#91. A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Boethius

#92. Substance and content over style and hype any day.

Derwin L. Gray

#93. We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

Michel De Montaigne

#94. You throw away the substance from which life is made of when you waste time

Sunday Adelaja

#95. Blood and flowers were alike, Isao thought, in that both were quick to dry up, quick to change their substance. And precisely because of this, then, blood and flowers could go on living by taking on the substance of glory. Glory in all its form was inevitably something metallic.

Yukio Mishima

#96. Tsukuru couldn't fathom what this substance was. He couldn't accept or reject it. It merely settled on his body as a shadowy swarm, laying an ample amount of shadowy eggs. Then darkness would withdraw and twilight would return, bringing with it the birds, who once again slashed away at his body.

Haruki Murakami

#97. Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#98. Many different substances, as distinct to the practiced eye as stone and wood, go to the making of a novel, and it is necessary to see them for what they are.

Percy Lubbock

#99. To get back to the real substance of all things, you must get back into the thought world. Until one knows that the thought-energy is the cause of which is back of all things, and the product only the effect, then he is tied to the effect and is limited by it.

Walter Russell

#100. How wonderful to find in living creatures the same substance as those which make up minerals. Nevertheless they felt a sort of humiliation at the idea that their persons contained phosphorous like matches, albumen like white of egg, hydrogen gas like street lamps.

Gustave Flaubert