Substance Quotes · Page 16

Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.

— Wayne Thiebaud

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…

— Ezra Miller

“Although all things with physical substance are real, not all real things have physical substance.”

— Christian Smith

Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we…

— Marie Curie

I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool…

— Albert Hofmann

Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits…

— Maimonides

In the issue war in Iraq, it was very clear to me that the policies that were being espoused by neoconservatives were…

— Joseph C. Wilson

Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three…

— Asa Gray

I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some…

— Christian Slater

When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we…

— Giordano Bruno

It is necessary to give freely if we are to receive freely. The law of receiving includes giving. The knowledge that substance…

— Charles Fillmore

There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow--the latter being earthly and finite, the former composed of the substance and…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

As soon as the mouth is opened, evils spring forth. People either neglect the root and speak of the branches, or neglect…

— Huangbo Xiyun

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

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Woman does not possess the image of God in herself but only when taken together with the male who is her head,…

— Saint Augustine

Like taxes, radioactivity has long been with us and in increasing amounts; it is not to be hated and feared, but accepted…

— Ralph Lapp

These principles have given me a way of explaining naturally the union or rather the mutual agreement [conformité] of the soul and…

— Gottfried Leibniz

The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through the torrent, stood out in…

— Ayn Rand

Nothing highlights better the continuing gap between rhetoric and substance in British financial services than the failure of providers here to emulate…

— Jonathan Davis

We know there are states, like Alaska, where there are not a lot of providers. How do we work on issues like…

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Hence when a person is in great pain, the cause of which he cannot remove, he sets his teeth firmly together, or…

— Erasmus Darwin

I played lead guitar in a band called The Federal Duck, which is the kind of name that was popular in the…

— Dave Barry

The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the…

— Mortimer Adler

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

— Nelson Mandela

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

— Kumi Naidoo

It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very…

— Helen Keller

Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but…

— William Ellery Channing

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

— Susan Cain

“I would not crave sensuality this bad if there’s was no divine Substance in it. I mean, what value is there in…

— Lebo Grand

There's substance to the point that sociological information is new. We have five years of information to weigh against 2,000 years of…

— Anthony Kennedy

So far we still don't know whether angels are ethereal beings of light without substance or if they take a solid human…

— Malcolm Godwin

I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance,…

— Helen Fielding

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

— Fernando Sabino

As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the…

— Roland Barthes

I admired Margaret Thatcher - while abhorring much of what she offered - because she was so clearly a leader of huge…

— Martin Jacques

As my uncle always says, 'If your vibe outweighs your substance, you're destined to be a novelty.' I think that is true…

— Mat Kearney

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

— John Heilemann

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

— Wilhelm Wundt