Quotes about Substance

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. Votes: 8

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me. Votes: 6

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. Votes: 6

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal. Votes: 6

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Votes: 6

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. Votes: 6

The substance of painting is light. Votes: 4

Man is a substance clad in shadows. Votes: 4

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. Votes: 4

Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived. Votes: 4

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. Votes: 4

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Votes: 4

Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance. Votes: 4

Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance. Votes: 4

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons. Votes: 4

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind. Votes: 4

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance. Votes: 4

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Votes: 4

I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance. Votes: 4

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it. Votes: 4

I think it's obvious that the psychedelics are demonized and illegalized by our society because somewhere in our society are controlling minds that realize that these substances have the potential, have the power to unpick the controlling hierarchy. Votes: 4

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make. Votes: 4

Substance should outweigh perfection... Votes: 3

Substance of Bhakti is Surrender and Humility. Votes: 3

Substance and content over style and hype any day. Votes: 3

Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin. Votes: 3

THOUGHT is the only power which can produce tangible riches from the Formless Substance. Votes: 3

Image is only temporal. Substance endures. Who said, "Image is everything"? And who believed it? Votes: 3

...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board. Votes: 3

Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences. Votes: 3

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter. Votes: 2

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance. Votes: 2

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. Votes: 2

Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings. Votes: 2

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance. Votes: 2

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy. Votes: 2

The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God. Votes: 2

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. Votes: 2

Someone told me that they didn't want to take a flu shot because they didn't want to put a foreign substance in their body. What do they think they do at dinner every night? Votes: 2

What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one. Votes: 2

Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before. Votes: 2

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. Votes: 2

And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream. Votes: 2

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic. Votes: 2

As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers. Votes: 2

Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith. Votes: 2

Testosterone should be a controlled substance. Votes: 0

You think the shadow is the substance. Votes: 0

Number was the substance of all things. Votes: 0

The Constitution deals with substance, not shadows. Votes: 0

Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance. Votes: 0

Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference. Votes: 0

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows. Votes: 0

The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom. Votes: 0

Eliminate the unnecessary and focus on the substance. Votes: 0

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men. Votes: 0

Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows. Votes: 0

Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance. Votes: 0

Content is the meaningful substance of the work. Votes: 0

Beginning with brand rather than substance is dangerous. Votes: 0

The body is the substance of the stone. Votes: 0

In a state of pseudo-death you restore your substance. Votes: 0

our deeds have even less substance than we ourselves. Votes: 0

love is form, and cannot be without important substance Votes: 0

Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance. Votes: 0

I want to entertain people, but with some substance. Votes: 0

You can't have style if you don't have substance. Votes: 0

Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit. Votes: 0

The only substance properly so called is the soul. Votes: 0

Art is an attempt to give substance to existence. Votes: 0

In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance. Votes: 0

I do not admire greatness that has no substance. Votes: 0

Time is the substance of which we are made Votes: 0

The spin overwhelms the substance. That's very clearly what happened. Votes: 0

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'. Votes: 0

All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether Votes: 0

Mere form without substance must collapse of its own weight. Votes: 0

Boredom is actually the most plentiful substance in the universe. Votes: 0

Our response to temptation reveals the substance of our faith. Votes: 0

I have never taken any substance to enhance my performance. Votes: 0

I hate the word famous because it has no substance. Votes: 0

Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance. Votes: 0

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature. Votes: 0

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen. Votes: 0

Work is the only thing that gives substance to life. Votes: 0

What has no substance can penetrate what has no opening. Votes: 0

A substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it. Votes: 0

Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life. Votes: 0

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance. Votes: 0

No corporeal substance can be so subtle and swift as this. Votes: 0

Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form. Votes: 0

Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation. Votes: 0

The substance of man cannot be measured by Gross National Product. Votes: 0

Treasure the shadow. ... There are no shadows save from substance cast. Votes: 0

The capacity for total wonder is the very substance of awakening. Votes: 0

Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance. Votes: 0

In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance. Votes: 0

The substance of the constitution is preserved. That is a fact. Votes: 0

I won't take parts where the female character has no substance. Votes: 0

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Votes: 0

The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost. Votes: 0

Aside from Velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. Votes: 0

No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign. Votes: 0

Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity. Votes: 0

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents. Votes: 0

Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth. Votes: 0

Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.] Votes: 0

Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship. Votes: 0

As I've gotten older, I've become attracted to things that have substance. Votes: 0

A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that. Votes: 0

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface. Votes: 0

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. Votes: 0

The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance. Votes: 0

That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance. Votes: 0

The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul. Votes: 0

The journey to freedom is paved by the substance of our character. Votes: 0

I don't have a right to pick the president's cabinet on substance. Votes: 0

The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars! Votes: 0

People think of me as a mannequin. All show and no substance. Votes: 0

The universe is a giant perceptual matrix. It perceives itself through its substance Votes: 0

The realization of our true substance and potential is the purpose of creation. Votes: 0

The world changed somewhat in form during its progress, but never in substance. Votes: 0

Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God. Votes: 0

imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives. Votes: 0

Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow. Votes: 0

The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. Votes: 0

It's hard to prove yourself when the substance isn't there in certain roles. Votes: 0

We have to look at the substance of something rather than the shadow. Votes: 0

Cholesterol is a substance in the blood that causes you to eat salads. Votes: 0

Diplomats and politicians, blowing with the wind. No substance, no beliefs, no real friendships. Votes: 0

Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance. Votes: 0

A boy is the only known substance from which a man can be made. Votes: 0

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything. Votes: 0

[A vitamin is] a substance you get sick from if you don't eat it. Votes: 0

In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance Votes: 0

Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science). Votes: 0

A drug is a substance which, if injected into a rabbit, produces a paper. Votes: 0

There is universal substance which is divine substance because where else can it be? Votes: 0

I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table. Votes: 0

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance. Votes: 0

Self, service, substance is the Divine order and nothing counts until we give ourselves. Votes: 0

I think I enjoy playing human beings no matter the substance of their character. Votes: 0

When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance? Votes: 0

Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow. Votes: 0

A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor. Votes: 0

A refrigerator runs by converting the dust behind it into a peculiar mutant, reptilian substance. Votes: 0

Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters Votes: 0

I don't think in national categories. For me it [policy] is about concepts and substance. Votes: 0

We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance. Votes: 0

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational. Votes: 0

Our actions are the evidence of our belief and become the substance of our faith. Votes: 0

It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand. Votes: 0

The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation. Votes: 0

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes. Votes: 0

Now, evolution is the substance of fossils hoped for, the evidence of links not seen. Votes: 0

... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity. Votes: 0

Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true. Votes: 0

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrew 11:1 KJV) Votes: 0

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either. Votes: 0

Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman - her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance. Votes: 0

It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance. Votes: 0

Hot air expands, and seriously pompous attitude is the inflation of choice by those lacking substance. Votes: 0

Faith is a spiritual force....It is substance. Faith has the ability to effect natural substance. Votes: 0

Trump is what Obama critics think Obama is: Someone who's focused on symbolism rather than substance. Votes: 0

Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance. Votes: 0

To get some of the substance of why [Michael] Flynn [is Defense Adviser] is so controversial. Votes: 0

Faith was the raw material substance that the Spirit of God used to form the universe. Votes: 0

The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for. Votes: 0

EGGS! They're not a food, they belong in no group! They're just farts clothed in substance! Votes: 0

Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome. Votes: 0

Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things. Votes: 0

No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here; Votes: 0

Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance. Votes: 0

Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space. Votes: 0

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced. Votes: 0

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth. Votes: 0

We had given it a name, a substance, and somehow, in doing that, we had condemned ourselves. Votes: 0

Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook. Votes: 0

Therefore, the substance of [Donald] Trump policies never got covered, because it wasn't what interested the media. Votes: 0

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form. Votes: 0

Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. Votes: 0

I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance. Votes: 0

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed. Votes: 0

The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance. Votes: 0

Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom. Votes: 0

Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance. Votes: 0

But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. Votes: 0

Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion. Votes: 0

At the request of the special counsel, Mr. Rove will not discuss the substance of his testimony. Votes: 0

Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen Hey, you Votes: 0

The more we serve our fellowmen in appropriate ways, the more substance there is to our souls. Votes: 0

It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease. Votes: 0

Every man starts with all there is. Everything is here-the essence and substance of all there is. Votes: 0

Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree. Votes: 0

We put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking. Votes: 0

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance. Votes: 0

Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting. Votes: 0

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been. Votes: 0

Faith becomes a bridge between where I am and where I want to go- it is a substance. Votes: 0

Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified. Votes: 0

In Washington, task forces work like Tylenol: they reduce the symptoms of scandal while leaving the substance untouched. Votes: 0

If you cannot allow people to do their jobs ... nobody with substance and creativity will work for you. Votes: 0

What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance. Votes: 0

This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance. Votes: 0

Heat may be generated and destroyed by certain processes, and this shows that heat is not a substance. Votes: 0

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice. Votes: 0

If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance. Votes: 0

Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don't know. That's got to be tough. Votes: 0

Everything one sees is merely a projection of what one does not see, its true nature and substance. Votes: 0

If people think of public art as something the public decides, it's impossible to make anything of substance. Votes: 0

I would like a nice, powerful, mind-altering substance. Preferably one that will make my unborn children grow gills. Votes: 0

To make use of your mind to think conceptually is to leave substance and attach yourself to form Votes: 0

It is not the number of Kata you know, but the SUBSTANCE of the Kata you have acquired. Votes: 0

For every drug that benefits a patient, there is a natural substance that can achieve the same effect. Votes: 0

A catalyst is a substance which alters the velocity of a chemical reaction without appearing in the final products. Votes: 0

Words have less substance than air. Don't tell me about your zealous dreams, your firm convictions, your profound lov Votes: 0

If your goals aren’t synced with the substance of your heart, then achieving them won’t matter much. Votes: 0

Music and imagination are made of the same substance -they contain soulful substances that are more real than reality. Votes: 0

The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance. Votes: 0

There is not a single health-promoting substance present in grains that you can't also get from vegetables and fruit. Votes: 0

I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas. Votes: 0

When God measures a church, He begins with its depth not its breadth, with its substance not its style. Votes: 0

Movement is the unifying bond between the mind and the body, and sensations are the substance of that bond. Votes: 0

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance. Votes: 0

Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance. Votes: 0

We should cultivate the serenity, because in the substance of sincerity germinate the most beautiful flowers of the Spirit. Votes: 0

Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same. Votes: 0

You know how I play it, better safe than sorry 'stead of searching for substance at every single party. Votes: 0

Playing quarterback ... it's no joke ... The difference here with Johnny Manziel, there's a lot of style and very little substance. Votes: 0

Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind. Votes: 0

At the factory, I deal with ex-cons, substance abusers, and sexual harassers. And I'm not just talking about my mom. Votes: 0

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved. Votes: 0

To experience relationships of substance and depth requires approaching and entering into relationships with consciousness and concern for the other. Votes: 0

Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments. Votes: 0

Gratitude unifies the mind of man with the intelligence of substance, so that man's thoughts are received by the formless. Votes: 0

By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain. Votes: 0

If you think a caregiver has an active substance abuse problem, that person should never be entrusted with your child. Votes: 0

Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced. Votes: 0

The poor looking shepherd of the dessert is in substance very rich with all the magical treasures of the desert. Votes: 0

Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind Votes: 0

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me. Votes: 0

[Race] had no substance, like a shadowy shape that terrifies in the dark but vanishes by the light of day. Votes: 0

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me Votes: 0

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth. Votes: 0

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. Votes: 0

This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not. Votes: 0

I'm drawn to roles that have real substance, that aren't just the victim or the teenage girl or the girlfriend. Votes: 0

Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze. Votes: 0

Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her. Votes: 0

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance. Votes: 0

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life. Votes: 0

I don't know what we did without Velcro in the American theater. It's a miracle substance! People had long intermissions, probably. Votes: 0

Illusions are shadows moving endlessly across the ground. The shadows are quite real but they're shadows. They have very little substance. Votes: 0

Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament. Votes: 0

In any situation you can think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear, while patience represents substance and strength. Votes: 0

I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present. Votes: 0

Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth. Votes: 0

Treatment for dependency at substance abuse treatment centers must change if alcoholism and addiction are to be overcome in our society. Votes: 0

The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower. Votes: 0

Your past is your shadow. It has form but no substance, except in the places you allow it to touch you. ( Votes: 0

Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal: Votes: 0

Within each and every one of us is a divine power that needs no substance or anything external to know bliss. Votes: 0

If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is. Votes: 0

Marijuana is not not harmful, but is the least harmful psychoactive substance that we have, with the possible exception of caffeine. Votes: 0

No form remains permanently in a substance; a constant change takes place, one form is taken off and another is put on. Votes: 0

Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species. To drink beer is to be human. Votes: 0

Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles. Votes: 0

A movement only becomes a movement of substance, size, and power when the artists say 'we want to add our voice.' Votes: 0

Women have come a long way over the past 20 years, but in substance abuse and addiction, women have come the wrong way. Votes: 0

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. Votes: 0

Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Votes: 0

The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care. Votes: 0

As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance. Votes: 0

Unbuttered toast is a substance half complete, and to be forced to eat it in that state is necessarily to feel deprived. Votes: 0

I am convinced that in times such as these, every man must be a soldier, in substance as well as in name. Votes: 0

Designs are a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life. Votes: 0

Once you've read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe. Votes: 0

I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it. Votes: 0

Think of a star. A star burns its very substance to give light to others. You need to be like a star. Votes: 0

FYI: when you see a grammar nazi foaming at the mouth, you are watching someone with absolutely nothing of substance to say. Votes: 0

A man of substance should trust very carefully an online networking friend whose shared images are not often palatable to his taste. Votes: 0

Don't let form become more important than the substance of your heart and mind. Don't let commerce determine what you do exclusively. Votes: 0

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits. Votes: 0

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate. Votes: 0

That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality. Votes: 0

Physically you are identical with and inseparable from the cosmic material substance, and socially you are inseparable from the large mass of humanity. Votes: 0

Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet. Votes: 0

We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance. Votes: 0

All great progress takes place when two sciences come together, and when their resemblance proclaims itself, despite the apparent disparity of their substance. Votes: 0

Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings. Votes: 0

You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think. Votes: 0

Our gratitude liberates an energy within us that immediately expands into the formless substance, where it is instantly returned to us in kind. Votes: 0

Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness. Votes: 0

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. Votes: 0

No one can deny who you are unless you are, in some way, minimizing the power and the force of your divine substance. Votes: 0

God then made the first woman, not directly out of his own substance, but from Adam's rib. Her purpose was to serve man. Votes: 0

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. Votes: 0

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance. Votes: 0

Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest. Votes: 0

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate. Votes: 0

We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love Votes: 0

One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed. Votes: 0

The power is that which generated and maintains the universe... the life-force, the stuff of creation. It is the very substance of existence itself. Votes: 0

There's substance to the point that sociological information is new. We have five years of information to weigh against 2,000 years of history or more. Votes: 0

Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions. Votes: 0

It’s the glitches and twists, I thought, that make this universe unique and compelling. Without flaws, there would be no depth, no substance. Votes: 0

Appearance matters, we see your presentation before we get a chance to sample the substance within. You might miss a chance for the latter. Votes: 0

I don't feel like there's any need to hide the fact that I smoke pot. It's a harmless herbal substance that increases sensory appreciation. Votes: 0

Now, I worry a bit about the TEDification of the world where style trumps substance, so hopefully you have a good blend of both! Votes: 0

A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government... Votes: 0

Thoughts naturally arise. The point of meditation is not to banish thoughts but to make peace with them by realizing their lack of substance. Votes: 0

Facts of experience are valued in Zen more than representations, symbols, and concepts-that is to say, substance is everything in Zen and form nothing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body. Votes: 0

It was the sort of house that glows with substance and savoir vivre in those advertisements for the best Scotch. It had wonderful bones. Votes: 0

It is with words that my heart sings, with the substance of integrity my character soars and without regret I look back smiling ~bns Votes: 0

Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance, form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form. Votes: 0

Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality. Votes: 0

The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary. Votes: 0

Frankly I'm not great with heroin addicts. I tried heroin, but it was by accident. I'm not great with that level of substance abuse. Votes: 0

Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice. Votes: 0

It was the sort of house that glows with substance and savoir vivre in those advertisements for the best Scotch. It had wonderful bones Votes: 0

To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow. Votes: 0

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance. Votes: 0

Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow. Votes: 0

The kernel, the soul"”let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances"”is plagiarism, Votes: 0

How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance! Votes: 0

A person may come into full harmony with the formless substance by entertaining a lively and sincere gratitude for the blessings it bestows upon him. Votes: 0

The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill. Votes: 0

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is. Votes: 0

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is. Votes: 0

Karate has helped me lots, otherwise I might have got lost in substance abuse or something like the things a lot of other people do. Votes: 0

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income. Votes: 0

I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance problem. Votes: 0

If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs. Votes: 0

Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips. Votes: 0

There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My council to Ted [Turner] is that he should watch Fox Business. He'll be elated to find how much substance there is in our news. Votes: 0

Christmas means 'giving,' and the gift without the giver is bare. Give of yourselves; give of your substance; give of your heart and mind. Votes: 0

God is all there is - God includes everything, all possibility and all action, for Spirit is the invisible essence and substance of all form. Votes: 0

A thought-form held in thinking substance is a reality; it is a real thing, whether it has yet become visible to mortal eye or not. Votes: 0

Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

[This legendary Amazonian substance is] a cybernetic transdimentional medium of some sort that is generated out of the mysteries of the physiology of the human body. Votes: 0

A person can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created. Votes: 0

Our spoken word first hammers a thing desired into shape. Our continued spoken word brings this shaped substance forth and clothes it with a visible body. Votes: 0

Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and meaning for our children. Votes: 0

I tried to do the commercial thing. But I don't want to keep shoving Twinkies down everyone's throat. People are hungry for something of more substance. Votes: 0

As my uncle always says, 'If your vibe outweighs your substance, you're destined to be a novelty.' I think that is true in all art. Votes: 0

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy. Votes: 0

The same substance composes us--the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star--we are all one, all moving to the same end. Votes: 0

Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance. Votes: 0

The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance Votes: 0

I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse. Votes: 0

Synthesis is the process of making a natural product, or some other substance, artificially, in the lab, one step at a time, from extremely simple building blocks. Votes: 0

A Not So Big House feels more spacious than many of its oversized neighbors because it is space with substance, all of it in use every day. Votes: 0

The best lies are always flavoured with the truth but if the substance is rotten, it will stink no matter how much you try to disguise it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever. Votes: 0

Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced. Votes: 0

If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest. Votes: 0

Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future. Votes: 0

Magic comprises the most profound contemplation of the most secret things, their nature, power, quality, substance, and virtues, as well as the knowledge of their whole nature. Votes: 0

The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual wine is a different substance. Votes: 0

I admired Margaret Thatcher - while abhorring much of what she offered - because she was so clearly a leader of huge substance. Blair was the dismal opposite. Votes: 0

Pop just didn't have enough substance for me. All this nyah-nyah-nyah, you know, 'Paper Tiger' and 'Hold the Ladder, James' and 'Crimson and Clover.' That wasn't music! Votes: 0

It's just me throwing myself at you,romance as usual, us times us,not lust but moxibustion,a substance burning closeto the body as possiblewithout risk of immolation. Votes: 0

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is. Votes: 0

Surely, if life is good, it is good throughout its substance; we cannot separate men's activities from women's and say, these are worthy of praise and these unworthy ... Votes: 0

Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world. Votes: 0

I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man. Votes: 0

Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form. Votes: 0

Ether is the only substance we are confident of in dynamics. One thing we are sure of and that is the reality and substantiality of the luminferous ether. Votes: 0

Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind. Votes: 0

she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as they had nourished her. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

'I am that I am,' said the Eternal. The Eternal - it is the race. One in substance - undifferentiated. One in time - stable and eternal. Votes: 0

Darkness is where we begin and where we end. We don't usually see light traveling in darkness of space because we only can see its reflection on substance. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you. Votes: 0

We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity. Votes: 0

Faith is the substance of whatever it is that we hope for. The important thing is that we teach that faith is connected to good works and responsibility. Votes: 0

The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh. Votes: 0

In our society, it is psychological murder to deprive a man of a job...you are in substance saying to that man "You have no right to exist. Votes: 0

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The realms of the gods and demons - heaven, purgatory, hell - are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view, is the dream of the world. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is beyond my comprehension that any humane person would withhold such a beneficial substance from people in such great need simply because others use it for different purposes. Votes: 0

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other. Votes: 0

There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is connected with human civilization. Votes: 0

The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give the name of radium. Votes: 0

It seems, by today's standards, that it's better to seek approval than to tell the truth. It's better to utter sweet nothings than to boldly say something of substance. Votes: 0

I have a dream, and a plan, to combine the commercial possibilities of Valentine's Day with the substance and meaning of black history month. I call it: Blackentine's Day. Votes: 0

Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates the mass and transforms it into its own nature. Votes: 0

The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh. Votes: 0

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done. Votes: 0

I saw, he was in a different league on a different planet. Everybody says we need substance in these debates, you've got it. You've got it from [Ted] Cruz. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The goal should not be to make money or acquire things, but to achieve the consciousness through which the substance will flow forth when and as you need it. Votes: 0

No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again. Votes: 0

I saw, he was in a different league on a different planet. Everybody says we need substance in these debates, you've got it. You've got it from [Ted] Cruz. Votes: 0

I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance. Votes: 0

You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth. Votes: 0

Every day, I'll get sent clips via email. I watch them and see if there's something of substance or significance.Some nights are super busy; some nights are quiet. Votes: 0

As sure as shadow follows substance and the sun rises on the east and sets on the west, a person who exercises professional excellence will be followed by success. Votes: 0

The order of things established by the Romans in Libya rested in substance on a balance of power between the Nomad kingdom of Massinissa and the city of Carthage. Votes: 0

There is no logical reason why thoughts, which have no substance, should have so much power over you, nor is there any reason why you should become their slave Votes: 0

There is one only and true God, but in the unity of the Godhead there are three coeternal and coequal Persons, the same in substance but distinct in subsistence. Votes: 0

Without the ability to visualize a goal and believe it will be reached, nothing of substance will be achieved. Not by anybody. Not at any time. Not in any place. Votes: 0

The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything. God is the ground, the substance, the teaching, the teacher, the purpose, and the reward for which every soul labors. Votes: 0

Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect they are permanent. Votes: 0

Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying. Votes: 0

The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears. Votes: 0

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A good stunt has to have both style and substance. It's a combination of impact and notoriety, the element of danger, technical execution, and the skill of the stunt performer. Votes: 0

I saw people around me who were falling deeper and deeper into alcoholism and substance abuse. It's seductive because alcohol is amazing and drugs are amazing, they work so well. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

People suffer from pain and call it evil, yet in reality it may be growing pains of the Spirit-the changing of the body into a finer and more spiritual substance. Votes: 0

... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into them by the simple rule of straight succession. Votes: 0

These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We are all of the same substance, the same life. Though there are many differences between us, those are merely the shadows that delineate our boundaries. Our light is the same. Votes: 0

I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too. Votes: 0

The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival. Votes: 0

I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance, complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend. Votes: 0

One of the things that makes a social-media cleanse so difficult is that every time we log on, every notification we get is an addictive substance. It's just like any drug. Votes: 0

Faith is not a leap in the dark. Faith is not a "hope so." Faith is substance and evidence - substance for a scientific mind, and evidence for a legal mind. Votes: 0

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. Votes: 0

I need to work on developing a new, less irritable personality. though I suspect that an empty nest would be at least a partial cure, today I resorted to substance abuse. Votes: 0

Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God. Votes: 0

As the Tories know, the problem with setting yourself up as a shining example for others to follow is that when you get caught out, that proverbial substance really hits the fan. Votes: 0

Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies; The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare, And shed their substance on the floating air. Votes: 0

It's 103 comedians, or however many it is, and how would everyone tell it. It's enough people of substance that it makes you think of the people who aren't there that are alive. Votes: 0

Weed's not as bad as everything else... 'cause weed is a background substance. You know what I mean, you can smoke some herb and still function. You ain't crisp... but you'll function. Votes: 0

In the issue war in Iraq, it was very clear to me that the policies that were being espoused by neoconservatives were totally devoid of substance - but they marketed it wonderfully. Votes: 0

The spiritual substance from which comes all visible wealth is never depleted. It is right with you all the time and responds to your faith in it and your demands on it. Votes: 0

And soon a branch, part of a hidden scene,The leafy mind, that long was tightly furled,Will turn its private substance into green,And young shoots spread upon our inner world. Votes: 0

He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Kant takes a free will to be a being or substance with the power to cause a state of the world (or a whole series of such states) spontaneously or from itself. Votes: 0

I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be. Votes: 0

Unintended Consequences is full of substance, it is one of the must-read books of the year, and once I finish it I will be giving it a second read through right away. Votes: 0

When I look back at high school, or college, or when I was getting married, it's the girlfriends I had then that give substance and joy to that point in my life. Votes: 0

I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories. Votes: 0

Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal. Votes: 0

So far we still don't know whether angels are ethereal beings of light without substance or if they take a solid human form with real wings which actually enable them to fly. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern. Votes: 0

It's gratifying to know that you've appeared in someone else's dreams. It's proof that you exist, in a way, proof that you have substance and value outside the walls of your own mind. Votes: 0

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so. Votes: 0

You are not the feelings or the thoughts or the contents of your awareness. None of these are who you are. You are the fullness of your Being, the substance of your presence. Votes: 0

Never look at the visible supply; always look at the limitless riches in the formless substance and know that they are coming to you as fast as you can receive and use them. Votes: 0

People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future. Votes: 0

The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection. Votes: 0

... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new. Votes: 0

My bitterness is not an abstract substance, it is as solid as a Christmas cake; I can cut it in slices and hand it round and there is still plenty left, for tomorrow. Votes: 0

In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if the President is willing to back up his rhetoric with substance. Votes: 0

Cats and ghosts both partook of the saucers of milk and that was okay. They consumed different parts of it: the cats its substance, the ghosts its essence, and none went to waste. Votes: 0

Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life. Votes: 0

I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart. Votes: 0

I'm tired of being considered vapid for liking pop music or caring about fashion as if these things inherently lack substance or as if the things I enjoy somehow make me a lesser person. Votes: 0

What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me? Votes: 0

Belief is made up of the same non-substance of which we ourselves are composed. The test of any belief system, then, is the degree to which this same light is permitted to shine through. Votes: 0

I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance to the poor, than the long, smooth faced hypocrite. Votes: 0

I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface Votes: 0

I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface. Votes: 0

The power of monsters is, it is a way of giving almost tangible substance to fears, beliefs, things that aren't real. You can coalesce it and draw it, or describe it, and it's a monster. Votes: 0

As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the substance; the face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn, an Event. Votes: 0

Before one can become a magician he must learn to control his own mind; for mind is the substance with which the magician acts, and the power to control it is the beginning of magic. Votes: 0

The creature called man has a strange history. He is not of one piece, nor was he born of a single moment in time. His elementary substance is stardust almost as old as the universe. Votes: 0

Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever. Votes: 0

The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do? Votes: 0

I want my movies to be commercial, fun thrill rides but I also want them to have substance to them. The fun part is knowing how to roll up your sleeves and get it done. Votes: 0

The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do? Votes: 0

Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little. Votes: 0

Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet . Votes: 0