Substance Quotes · Page 2

“Spirit is a tangible substance.”

— Toba Beta

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

— Anonymous

Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.

— George Chapman

Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.

— Swami Vivekananda

“plans have about as much substance as daydreams,”

— Jodi Angel

The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul.

— Marcus Aurelius

Faith becomes a bridge between where I am and where I want to go- it is a substance.

— Anonymous

Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.

— Franz Grillparzer

“The value of a substance is the product of the time spent to achieve it”

— Sunday Adelaja

I would like a nice, powerful, mind-altering substance. Preferably one that will make my unborn children grow gills.

— Parker Posey

If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.

— Malachy McCourt

As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars…

— Paul Krassner

Every day, I'll get sent clips via email. I watch them and see if there's something of substance or significance.Some nights are…

— Chris Pronger

Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes…

— Hippocrates

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an…

— Dee Hock

When you're working and making money, that's all good, but there has to be something that provides a substance, I think.

— Mekhi Phifer

I am convinced that in times such as these, every man must be a soldier, in substance as well as in name.

— Seishiro Itagaki

Our cause is a common one. It is war between poverty and wealth. ... This moneyed power is fast eating up the…

— William H. Sylvis

This investigation has yielded an unanticipated result that reaction of cyanic acid with ammonia gives urea, a noteworthy result in as much…

— Friedrich Wohler

The gentlest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world. That which has no substance enters where there is…

— Anonymous

Just for the record, I'm in favor of drug testing EVERY year just as long as it's a level playing field. The…

— Lee Labrada

The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included…

— Giordano Bruno

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda…

— Robert Crumb

Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the…

— Victor Hugo

As I am writing, another illustration of ye generation of hills proposed above comes into my mind. Milk is as uniform a…

— Isaac Newton

The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the…

— Anonymous

Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and "fashionable")…

— Giordano Bruno

It's not that everything needs to have substance, but when nothing does then you know we're living in a bankrupt society, an…

— Davey Havok

For the powers of our mind, life, and body are bound to their own limitations, and however high they may rise or…

— Sri Aurobindo

Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. Cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. To confuse them…

— Remy de Gourmont

We are very encouraged that the results from our monitoring of air quality and drinking water conditions in both New York and…

— Christine Todd Whitman

I do not remember anything which Confucius has said directly respecting man's "origin, purpose, and destiny." He was more practical than that.…

— Henry David Thoreau

For years I was so busy building walls I did not see I was imprisoning myself behind them, and did not recognize…

— Lee L Jampolsky

I don't have a right to pick the president's cabinet on substance.

— Christopher Dodd

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.

— S. I. Hayakawa

Our actions are the evidence of our belief and become the substance of our faith.

— L. Whitney Clayton

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

— Jean-Claude Juncker

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.

— William Bartram

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

— Julia Cameron

Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don't know. That's got to be tough.

— Wayne Gretzky