Substance Quotes

936 quotes by 721 authors

Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of… — Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Let us today seek to find that place within each of us where dreams are made, where our highest aspirations take shape. Let us confirm… — Dennis Kucinich
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of… — Bernard de Mandeville
The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained… — Sun Tzu
Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy… — William Shakespeare
Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her. — Walter Savage Landor
You know how I play it, better safe than sorry 'stead of searching for substance at every single party. — Drake
Our cause is a common one. It is war between poverty and wealth. ... This moneyed power is fast eating up the substance of the… — Unknown Author
As I am writing, another illustration of ye generation of hills proposed above comes into my mind. Milk is as uniform a liquor as ye… — Isaac Newton
I'm calling for all responsible Americans to fight back and punish Pepsi for using a man who degrades women, who encourages substance abuse, and does… — Bill O'Reilly
Now, as I move through my fifties, I can be professional and domestic, creative and intellectual, patient and urgent. I have learned that we should… — Susan Sarandon
The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments to feed on… — Lewis H. Lapham
Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with… — Ray Manzarek
Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its… — Robert H. Jackson
Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things. — George Santayana
When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and… — Abraham Lincoln
Woman does not possess the image of God in herself but only when taken together with the male who is her head, so that the… — Saint Augustine
The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels. — Mortimer Adler

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