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
You hear about the struggles with substances and all that, but [Phil Wood] was a really a great guy. This was a… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower. — Laozi Copy Share Image
There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by… — Gottfried Leibniz 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
My brother, this "religiosity" is not the standard by which true men of God are measured. In all the rituals that Islam… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
The shaman is a very peculiar figure. He is critical to the functioning of the psychological and social life of his community,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
A fiery shield is God's Word; of more substance and purer than gold, which, tried in the fire, loses nought of its… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Synthetic or inorganic substances do not contain any 'life force'; they are not dynamic. Everything is made of chemicals, but organic substances… — Robert Tisserand Copy Share Image
Since it is necessary for specific ideas to have definite and consequently as far as possible selected terms, I have proposed to… — Jons Jacob Berzelius 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
We cannot build the new culture for learning to which we aspire in an environment which is depressed and dampened every day… — Robert Carothers Copy Share Image
I have one great political idea. . . . That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to;… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
[T]he Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost [are] three ... not in condition, but in degree; not in substance, but in… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Habits start out as off-hand remarks, magazine advertisements, friendly hints, experiments - like flimsy cobwebs with little substance. They grow with practice,… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
It is easy to do things for our own families and loved ones, but to give of our substance for the stranger… — Nathan Eldon Tanner Copy Share Image
The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me — Chow Yun-Fat Copy Share Image
Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around… — Ella Maillart Copy Share Image
Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you… — Benny Goodman Copy Share Image
Karate has helped me lots, otherwise I might have got lost in substance abuse or something like the things a lot of… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
In Washington, task forces work like Tylenol: they reduce the symptoms of scandal while leaving the substance untouched. — Jonathan Turley Copy Share Image
The poor looking shepherd of the dessert is in substance very rich with all the magical treasures of the desert. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
My first album wasn't even the album that y'all hear as 'Uncontrolled Substance.' It was a totally different album... I had a… — Inspectah Deck Copy Share Image
God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“I find nothing so singular in life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image