Substance Quotes · Page 17

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

Bronze makes the most complex waveforms of any substance known to man. It creates these vibrations that will just crack your skull.

— Brian Reitzell

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

The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their…

— Sun Tzu

I cannot believe that any man who deserved fame ever labored for it; that is, directly. For, as fame is but the…

— Washington Allston

I've never used performance-enhancing drugs of any kind, and I never will. I've never met or spoken with Tony Bosch or used…

— Gio Gonzalez

If I take a lick from so and so, I'm not going to get that many variations from it, because their phrases…

— Emily Remler

Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can…

— Duane Chapman

[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders…

— Loren Eiseley

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

There is a fundamental similarity between the persecution of individuals who engage in consenting homosexual activity in private, or who ingest, inject,…

— Thomas Szasz

We made love. How pedestrian the words look-trite, worn, practically featureless with use-but how can one better describe that which happens when…

— Ken Kesey

It’s not the plant-based foods that will make you ill, it’s the meat and the liquid meat (i.e.: dairy) that can lead…

— Rip Esselstyn

So many people took my opinion and some will give it more serious consideration because of who I am. Not because I…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Jeffrey Dahmer

Christ used the flesh and blood of Mary for his life on earth, the Word of love was uttered in her heartbeat.…

— Caryll Houselander

You know, women are treated like objects. But they have substance. They are not just an item number to be looked at…

— Nagma

Animism is a monist metaphysical stance, based upon the idea that mind and matter are not distinct and separate substances but an…

— Emma Restall Orr

In Chinese, the word for heart and mind is the same -- Hsin. For when the heart is open and the mind…

— Stephen Levine

That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Frankly I'm not great with heroin addicts. I tried heroin, but it was by accident. I'm not great with that level of…

— Michael Stipe

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

— Tananarive Due

[This legendary Amazonian substance is] a cybernetic transdimentional medium of some sort that is generated out of the mysteries of the physiology…

— Terence McKenna

While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse…

— Byron White

Before one can generalize, formalize, and axiomatize, there must be a mathematical substance.

— Hermann Weyl

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principle of individuation is matter.

— Thomas Aquinas

There is no logical reason why thoughts, which have no substance, should have so much power over you, nor is there any…

— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

I saw, he was in a different league on a different planet. Everybody says we need substance in these debates, you've got…

— Rush Limbaugh

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the…

— Jonathan Miller

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

— Emily Yoffe

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists…

— Anonymous

A person can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks…

— Wallace D. Wattles