Top 100 Quotes About Substance
#1. A greyish substance that might be blood. Remembering the spray I caught earlier, I wipe a hand across my face and it comes away wet and sticky with the same grey liquid. "I'd kill for a shower," I mutter, chuckling darkly at the sick joke. Juni cuts a long, jagged line through the creature's flesh,
Darren Shan
#2. As a scientist Miss [Rosalind] Franklin was distinguished by extreme clarity and perfection in everything she undertook. Her photographs are among the most beautiful X-ray photographs of any substance ever taken.
John Desmond Bernal
#3. In Chinese, the word for heart and mind is the same
Hsin. For when the heart is open and the mind is clear they are of one substance, of one essence.
Stephen Levine
#4. This is the middle of my life, I think of it as a place, like the middle of a river, the middle of a bridge, halfway across, halfway over. I'm supposed to have accumulated things by now: possessions, responsibilities, achievements, experience and wisdom. I'm supposed to be a person of substance.
Margaret Atwood
#5. Practically and commercially speaking, a dollar is not necessarily a specific thing, made of silver, or gold, or any other single metal, or substance. It is only such a quantum of market value as exists in a given piece of silver or gold.
Lysander Spooner
#6. It might work in the short term, but it's not going to keep the people who hop from congregation to congregation. Church is about one's relationship with God and one's relationship with people. The gimmick may attract you for the moment, but it's the substance that will hold you there.
J. Gordon Melton
#8. Illusions are shadows moving endlessly across the ground. The shadows are quite real but they're shadows. They have very little substance.
Frederick Lenz
#9. Enron was becoming a virtual cult of creativity, often placing swagger over substance. New ideas were celebrated for their newness, for their potential; tried and true businesses like the pipelines were almost derided.
Kurt Eichenwald
#10. In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.
Brandon Sanderson
#11. He's all there is. All there will ever be. I'm falling through eternity, and his touch is the fabric of that forever. His kiss is the substance of infinity. These thoughts make no sense even to my own mind, but they remain true in some strange way.
Jasinda Wilder
#12. All great progress takes place when two sciences come together, and when their resemblance proclaims itself, despite the apparent disparity of their substance.
Henri Poincare
#13. There is no substance which is not a poison; all are poisonous. Only the dose determines.
Philippus Theophrastus
#14. My mother's journals are a shadow play with mine. I am a woman wedded to words. Words cast a shadow. Without a shadow there is no depth. Without a shadow there is no substance. If we have no shadow, it means we are invisible. As long as I have a shadow, I am alive.
Terry Tempest Williams
#15. Capital is the result of saving, and not of spending. The spendthrift who wastes his substance in riotous living decreases the capital of the country, and therefore the excuse often made for extravagance, that it is good for trade, is based upon false notions respecting capital.
Millicent Fawcett
#16. iron inhibits the absorption of important growth factors such as zinc. Furthermore, iron is an oxidative substance that can exacerbate the production of free radicals and might even increase the risk of pre-eclampsia.9
Michel Odent
#17. I will scrape and dig into every word as far as I can get, right down to the essence of the word, to the substance of the image.
Chairil Anwar
#18. But suppose we take the noun 'truth': here is a case where the disagreements between different theorists have largely turned on whether they interpreted this as a name of a substance, of a quality, or of a relation.
J.L. Austin
#19. It's the glitches and twists, I thought, that make this universe unique and compelling. Without flaws, there would be
no depth, no substance.
A.M. Jenkins
#20. The substance of man cannot be measured by Gross National Product.
E.F. Schumacher
#21. You see a fleeting perfection of form merging with a significant substance, and you make a clicking noise only a hair's breadth away. You have judged something, reported something, ostensibly truthfully ... And when you made a clicking noise you said something eloquently if you are skilled.
Burk Uzzle
#22. From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.
Marcus Aurelius
#23. Appearance over substance was a cultural theme in China
Paul Midler
#24. A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that.
Rachel Griffiths
#25. When you're working and making money, that's all good, but there has to be something that provides a substance, I think.
Mekhi Phifer
#26. The actuality of these spiritual qualities is thus imprisoned, though their potentiality be not quite destroyed; and thus a crass, extended, impenetrable, passive, divisible, unintelligent substance is generated, which we call matter.Cheyn.Phil. Prin.
Samuel Johnson
#27. The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts.
Gottfried Leibniz
#28. Oh, and Mr. Montgomery? I think I counted about four dozen important-sounding words and almost no substance at all in that explanation. I don't think you should close the door on your diplomatic career entirely.
Elle Lothlorien
#29. Cease distracting your mind of things with little substance.
Nikki Rowe
#30. Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.
Mahatma Gandhi
#33. Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind.
Dyan Cannon
#34. She regained the street
happy in this, that though much had been forced on her against her will, though she had in fact heard the whole substance of Jane Fairfax's letter, she had been able to escape the letter itself.
Jane Austen
#35. If your goals aren't synced with the substance of your heart, then achieving them won't matter much.
Danielle LaPorte
#36. Love is the demiurge that builds substance from the elements of our lives.
From "Big Enough for the Entire Universe
Victor Fernando R. Ocampo
#37. Books are no longer read but eaten, not made of paper but of some informational substance, fully digestible, sugar-coated.
Stanislaw Lem
#38. Literalness, however, is not the substance from which human culture is made.
Begona Aretxaga
#39. The substance of all realities is in this religion of Jesus Christ; but it can be real only to those who will do His will.
Washington Gladden
#40. Trust arises from the mind's instinctive feeling after fixed realities, after the substance of every shadow, the base of all appearance, the everlasting amid change.
James Martineau
#41. To progress again, man must remake himself. And he cannot remake himself without suffering. For he is both the marble and the sculptor. In order to uncover his true visage he must shatter his own substance with heavy blows of his hammer.
Alexis Carrel
#42. Mari was what was known as an underachiever, which even an underachiever knew was sociology code for "overfailer." She was famous in the Lore for the simple fact that one day she might be worth being famous. All hype-no substance. That was Mari.
Kresley Cole
#43. In the year 1752 it was announced that the second of September would be followed by the fourteenth. The matter was merely one of wording, of course; time in its substance was not to undergo any change.
Emma Donoghue
#44. The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.
Theodore Parker
#45. Our response to temptation reveals the substance of our faith.
Dillon Burroughs
#46. When technology is no longer novel, videos need more substance to impel viewers to watch, engage, and share, and we've already reached that point with camera drones.
Eric Cheng
#47. The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods.
Wilhelm Dilthey
#48. The thing they're trying to stop is 30-million people getting health insurance. That's the substance.
Chris Hayes
#49. There are some stories, some memories, that if you tell them after dark, they seem to gain weight, substance, as if there are things listening, waiting to hear themselves spoken of again. Words have power. But even thinking about them is sometimes enough to make the air in a room heavy.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#50. To me, a book is a book. A novel is a novel, and you have hundreds of possibilities, options, and they may all be fine. Charles Dickens or Ingeborg Bachmann, Claude Simon or later writers. The one and only condition is that it has to be good: it has to have quality, substance, atmosphere.
Per Petterson
#51. She should have remembered her past experiences in the relationship wars and not let herself get so excited. Evidently her hormones had overruled her common sense and she had become drunk on ovarian wine, the most potent, sanity- destroying substance in the universe.
Linda Howard
#52. Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.
Karl Marx
#53. His soul, it seemed to him, was more than empty. It was desiccated, reduced to the powder of its substance and now in danger of being blown away by the first puff of the dawn wind that presaged the sun.
Randy Attwood
#54. One's true worth as a human being is not a matter of outward appearance or title, but derives rather from the breadth of one's spirit. Everything comes down to faith and conviction. It is what is in one's heart, and the substance of one's actions that count.
Daisaku Ikeda
#55. You feed the requisite substance through personal development efforts and position yourself strategically to allow the forces around you to create the path for your relevance and significance. You are not lifted by air, but by the substance inside you hitting the springboard of opportunity.
Archibald Marwizi
#56. pulling a great substance from a higher height whilst leaning on a slippery ground with the mentality of having the substance whilst standing is a thought of fantasy. You may only result in falling with the substance
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#57. I do not admire greatness that has no substance.
Mary Balogh
#58. One begins to realize that art ... in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive, to feel. The stone itself becomes an organic substance, and one can feel it being transformed as one moment in its life succeeds another.
Georges Clemenceau
#59. A hypocrite [is the one who] wants to impress others with an external facade of religious piety that he knows is devoid of internal spiritual substance.
Sam Storms
#60. Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
Henry Ward Beecher
#62. No one can deny who you are unless you are, in some way, minimizing the power and the force of your divine substance.
Debbie Ford
#63. The ancient study of alchemy is concerned with making the Philosopher's Stone, a legendary substance with astonishing powers. The Stone will transform any metal into pure gold. It also produces the Elixir of Life, which will make the drinker immortal. There
J.K. Rowling
#64. Cholesterol is a substance in the blood that causes you to eat salads.
Richard Carleton
#65. To create and to annihilate material substance, cause it to aggregate in forms according to his desire, would be the supreme manifestation of the power of Man's mind, his most complete triumph over the physical world ...
Nikola Tesla
#66. Of the eternal incorporeal substance nothing is changed, is formed or deformed, but there always remains only that thing which cannot be a subject of dissolution, since it is not possible that it be a subject of composition, and therefore, either of itself or by accident, it cannot be said to die .
Giordano Bruno
#67. Role-playing situations work well for many parents. After deprivation or prenatal exposure to substance, many children have verbal instruction as their weakest learning area, but many have role playing as their strongest.
Deborah D. Gray
#68. We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God.
Thomas Aquinas
#69. we may have a better reflection of ourselves in the mirror depending on how thick the opaque substance behind it is; the lighter the substance, the poorer the image; the thicker the substance,the better the image.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#70. At the request of the special counsel, Mr. Rove will not discuss the substance of his testimony.
Robert Luskin
#71. The experience you've had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.
A.S.A Harrison
#72. She was pretty sure Sample #17 had been some Lancre Blue Vein, which had reacted vigorously with the acid, blown a small hole in the ceiling and covered half the work-bench with a dark green substance that was setting like tar.
Terry Pratchett
#73. You can take a substance that works in your system, but then you take this over here that's not banned, and this over here that's not banned, but if you mix them together, you've got a banned substance in your system.
Lawrence Taylor
#74. The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
Plautus
#75. so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it. We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us.
Brandon Sanderson
#76. Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.
William Ellery Channing
#77. Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the substance you are addicted to - alcohol, food, legal or illegal drugs, or a person - you are using something or somebody to cover up your pain.
Eckhart Tolle
#78. An atom is as true as a grain of sand
and yet
The former can ne'er be felt until the mingling
Of many in unison
Lends form and substance to the invisible
---Dreams---
Ilene B. Benator
#79. No form remains permanently in a substance; a constant change takes place, one form is taken off and another is put on.
Maimonides
#80. We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance.
Goran Persson
#81. A refrigerator runs by converting the dust behind it into a peculiar mutant, reptilian substance.
Colin McEnroe
#82. Foods of the Gods") - "After water, cocoa is the single healthiest substance you can put in your mouth. It can easily replace a number of psychiatric drugs for mood, plus it produces the same chemistry in the brain that occurs when we fall in love.
Chris Kilham
#83. Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.
William Penn
#85. I think of all music as existing in the substance of the air itself. It is the composer's task to order and make sense of sound, in time and space, to communicate something about being alive through music.
Libby Larsen
#86. They got drunk and high on a regular basis, but this is a vestige of youth that you either quit while you're young or you become an addict if you don't die.
If you are the Old Guy In The Punk House, move out. You have a substance abuse problem.
Bucky Sinister
#87. Water, the Hub of Life. Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium. Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all its properties are anomolous, which enabled life to use it as building material for its machinery. Life is water dancing to the tune of solids.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
#88. Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
Walter Benjamin
#89. Hollywood is in the perception business where you create layers to create mystery. In Silicon Valley it's about taking away the layers to get to the substance.
MC Hammer
#90. One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.
Helen Fielding
#91. The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul.
Marcus Aurelius
#92. they pledged their lives and their substance to maintain the cause of Christ.
Anonymous
#93. I always think of space-time as being the real substance of space, and the galaxies and the stars just like the foam on the ocean.
George Smoot
#94. What is my true substance?
What will remain of me after my death?
Our life is as short as a raging fire:
flames the passer-by soon forgets,
ashes the wind blows away.
A man's life.
Omar Khayyam
#95. Why do I do it? Because I enjoy its effects. You know, I - why does anybody use any mind-altering substance, you know, because they like the way it makes them feel.
Mark Stepnoski
#96. Water was a wild, capricious substance: nothing solid, nothing permanent, nothing as it appeared.
Anthony Doerr
#97. What we bloodlessy call 'place' is to young children a wild compound of dream, spell and substance: place is somewhere they are always 'in', never 'on'.
Robert Macfarlane
#98. If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.
Al Roker
#99. I'd hate it to become style over substance, I'd hate people to start putting me in a magazine article about my style. I don't like dressing up in something I'm not necessarily comfortable in just to make it more of a show. I want the power to come from what I sing about and how I sing.
Ellie Goulding
#100. Of course I need not remind you how fluid a thing thought is with me
with us all
and of what an evanescent substance are our emotions made.
Oscar Wilde
