Substance Quotes · Page 33

Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.

— Jodi Picoult

Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in…

— Lewis Mumford

What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world…

— Kojo Annan

If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock…

— Benjamin Franklin

[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening…

— Roger Ebert

[Pitchblende] consists of a peculiar, distinct, metallic substance. Therefore its former denominations, pitch-blende, pitch-iron-ore, &c. are no longer applicable, and must be…

— Martin Heinrich Klaproth

Whether you know it or not, one of the most important relationships in your life is with your Soul. Will you be…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.

— Jessica Savitch

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

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 G8 nations, together with the five major emerging economies of China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, use almost three-quarters of the…

— Sigmar Gabriel

I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or…

— Octavia Spencer

And soon a branch, part of a hidden scene,The leafy mind, that long was tightly furled,Will turn its private substance into green,And…

— Theodore Roethke

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.

— Dee Hock

I love words, but I also love finding out that there is a word for something that you've experienced but didn't know…

— Mary Roach

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

— Linus Pauling

Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order…

— Sigmund Freud

“The substance of patriotism matters more than the symbols.”

— Barack Obama

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

— Hanif Abdurraqib

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

— Fernando Sabino

No degree of prosperity could justify the accumulation of large amounts of highly toxic substances which nobody knows how to make safe…

— E. F. Schumacher

Oil is also essential for military operations. No other substance, no other raw material, is so vital for the prosecution of warfare,…

— Michael Klare

Testosterone should be a controlled substance.

— Lisa Scottoline