Substance Quotes · Page 18

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

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

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

Our native susceptibilities and acquired tastes determine which of the many qualities in an object shall most impress us, and be most…

— George Henry Lewes

When sunlight falls on a crystal, lights of all colors of the rainbow appear; yet they have no substance that you can…

— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Addiction is a very compelling subject for literature - especially now that it's nearly impossible to come out of adult experience without…

— Porochista Khakpour

There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,--is, in form as well…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

In my years of photography I have learned that many things can be sensed, seen, shaped, or resolved in a realm of…

— Paul Caponigro

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

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

If any relationship lacks Jesus as the foundation it needs to be reevaluated. He is the substance that keeps it sustained.

— Pauline Seaport

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

You can window-dress and promote a movie as much as you like but if the movie hasn't got substance and isn't an…

— Christian Horner

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

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that…

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman