Substance Quotes

936 Substance quotes by 721 unique authors

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
Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact… — Pema Chodron
The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual wine is a… — Unknown Author
God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from… — William Gurnall
Theory and fact are equally strong and utterly interdependent; one has no meaning without the other. We need theory to organize and interpret facts, even… — Stephen Jay Gould
I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that make up ninety-nine… — George Wald
These principles have given me a way of explaining naturally the union or rather the mutual agreement [conformité] of the soul and the organic body.… — Gottfried Leibniz
To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits. — Henri Frederic Amiel
The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist… — Edmund Burke
Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not deep, nevertheless the… — Joyce Carol Oates
[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders thinly in the… — Loren Eiseley

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