Substance Quotes · Page 3

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

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

— Aesop

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

— Wayne Gretzky

I want to entertain people, but with some substance.

— Irrfan Khan

Psychedelic substances, if they are used in proper ways, are very helpful for mankind.

— Albert Hofmann

It's hard to prove yourself when the substance isn't there in certain roles.

— Travis Fimmel

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

— Dee Hock

“& lord knows I have been called by what I look like more than I have been called by what I actually am”

— Hanif Abdurraqib

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

We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by…

— Thomas Merton

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are…

— Victor Hugo

People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.

— Leigh Steinberg

When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken. Dust, the air of the room, and one's clothes, all become…

— Marie Curie

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

— Loren Eiseley

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

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

Does the Gospel I preach and teach have a natural tendency to cause people who hear it to become full-time students of…

— Dallas Willard

Meat is necessary when there is hard physical work to be done, or in a very cold climate, or when edible plants…

— Anonymous

There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind, and its infinite manifestation, for God is All…

— Mary Baker Eddy

It is one of the ironies of religious history that many mortals err in their understanding of the nature of God and…

— Neal A. Maxwell

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

— Porochista Khakpour

We may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides,…

— Linus Pauling

Having to parent your mother or father is a challenge that way too many teens have to deal with. Teens whose parents…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

A man of about fifty-four years of age, had begun, five or six months before, to be somewhat emaciated in his whole…

— Giovanni Battista Morgagni

For you must know, gentlemen, that when the mariner is dosed, he likes to know that he has been dosed: with fifteen…

— Patrick O'Brian

The tea is pure chemistry, and so is everything else. But chemistry can be highly active with nutrients, it could be not…

— Horst Rechelbacher

The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded,…

— Wendell Berry

The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

“What indeed is the half-life of a mortal consciousness? What is the half-life of a memory of that mortal consciousness? Of course,…

— Ashim Shanker

Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen Hey, you

— Wilson Mizner

I won't take parts where the female character has no substance.

— Margot Robbie

“Imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people’s lives.”

— Brandon Sanderson

Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance.

— Hermann Weyl

“The making of soul into reality is quite imaginary, if you will try to focus on.”

— KH Muawia Tariq

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

— Freddie Mercury

Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.

— Anonymous

The Constitution deals with substance, not shadows.

— Stephen Johnson Field