It was not a translation, it was the substance.

... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over…

— Louise Bogan

This is true; virtually all edible substances, and many automotive products, are now marketed as being low-fat or fat-free. Americans are obsessed with fat…

— Dave Barry

Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense…

— Dan Beachy-Quick

I separated the joints, the arm joints, the leg joints, and had to do two boilings. I think I used four boxes of Soilex…

— Jeffrey Dahmer

In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit…

— Dante Alighieri

In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing…

— Polybius

My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads…

— Natasha Henstridge

Art is an attempt to give substance to existence.

— Sondra Horton Fraleigh

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

— Jean-Claude Juncker

The cultural integration of psychedelics won't happen overnight, and the question of young people is perhaps the most difficult involved. The first step is…

— Rick Doblin

The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the…

— Lord Acton

Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which…

— Asa Gray

Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something…

— William Bernbach