By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends.… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Obama is very much an establishment sort of guy. The whole image of him as a transcendent figure was based on style… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth. — Abraham Cahan Copy Share Image
The discovery of radioactivity created a momentary chaos in chemistry and physics; but it soon led to a fuller interpretation of the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
If you are without bread, how much wisdom can you boast and of what real utility are your talents, if you cannot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is indeed a striking proof of the essential soundness of the tradition that with which all these thousands of copies, tracing… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
The sum and substance of my teaching is this: Don't be dishonest to your vital breath; worship that only, abide in that… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
We cannot build the new culture for learning to which we aspire in an environment which is depressed and dampened every day… — Robert Carothers Copy Share Image
We Americans think we enjoy self-government. We have all the trappings of self-government, like elections. But in reality, we have gradually lost… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
Positions and titles mean absolutely nothing. They're just adornments; they don't represent the substance of anybody. Every person and every job is… — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
A lot of people talk, but they don't say anything. And people listen, and they don't absorb anything of substance. — Lauren Jauregui Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Hence as a private man has a right to say what wages he will give in his private affairs, so has a… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
For us it's always about making sure that there's substance, that things are well thought out, they're real, they're going to happen… — Thomas Tull Copy Share Image
The golden light of metaphor, which is the intelligence of poetry, was implicit in alchemical study. To change, magically, one substance into… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
I try to teach my students style, but always as a part of life, not as ornament. Style has to come out… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
I love blue more than any other color. I am inordinately attracted to any blue substance: to minerals like turquoise and lapis… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
People are surprisingly off put just by saliva, the substance that you carry around in your mouth. You swallow it. You have… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance. — John Knox Copy Share Image
We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover… — Alan Macfarlane Copy Share Image
