Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance. — Michael J. Schmoker Copy Share Image
It is beyond my comprehension that any humane person would withhold such a beneficial substance from people in such great need simply… — Steven Gould Copy Share Image
Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind — Dyan Cannon Copy Share Image
A person may come into full harmony with the formless substance by entertaining a lively and sincere gratitude for the blessings it… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: ‘Every… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
A good stunt has to have both style and substance. It's a combination of impact and notoriety, the element of danger, technical… — Steve Truglia Copy Share Image
What I'm above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality. If I had to sum up… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Designs are a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life. — Geoffrey Beene Copy Share Image
Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her. Yet eternity maintaineth her… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
“Sombre thoughts and fancies often require a little real soil or substance to flourish in; they are the dark pine-trees which take… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Think of the Father as a spring of life begetting the Son like a river and the Holy Ghost like a sea,… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It has been demonstrated that a species of penicillium produces in culture a very powerful antibacterial substance which affects different bacteria in… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
Woman does not possess the image of God in herself but only when taken together with the male who is her head,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The dual substance of Christ- the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God... has always been a deep inscrutable… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
In Illinois a pregnant woman who takes an illegal drug can be prosecuted for 'delivering a controlled substance to a minor.' This… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
On my 70th birthday, I was asked how I felt about mankind's prospects. This is my reply: We are behaving like yeasts… — Farley Mowat Copy Share Image
The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the request of the special counsel, Mr. Rove will not discuss the substance of his testimony. — Robert Luskin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
Ether is the only substance we are confident of in dynamics. One thing we are sure of and that is the reality… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Think of a star. A star burns its very substance to give light to others. You need to be like a star. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It seems, by today's standards, that it's better to seek approval than to tell the truth. It's better to utter sweet nothings… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion. — Calvin Miller Copy Share Image
In any culture, if information is to maximise in a contextual space, and new meanings be born, the original story has to… — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
I have a dream, and a plan, to combine the commercial possibilities of Valentine's Day with the substance and meaning of black… — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
A thought-form held in thinking substance is a reality; it is a real thing, whether it has yet become visible to mortal… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you want to talk about distributing substances that are lethal, . . . let's be serious. Tobacco is far ahead of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
