Substance Quotes

936 Substance quotes by 721 unique authors

We are very encouraged that the results from our monitoring of air quality and drinking water conditions in both New York and near the Pentagon… — Christine Todd Whitman
[T]hroÂ’ this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide?… — Alexander Pope
Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species. To drink beer is to be human. — Alan D. Eames
My hair is pure. It stands for purity because no foreign chemicals or substances has ever touched my hair. — CM Punk
Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance. — H. L. Mencken
To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would… — Henry David Thoreau
Angelo is a brilliant jazz talent. His receptivity, seriousness, his ability to execute ideas simple or complex, combined with his love and feel for the… — Mulgrew Miller
Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a new… — Eric Hoffer
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. — Robert South
But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature of… — Baruch Spinoza
Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into… — Thomas Carlyle
A refrigerator runs by converting the dust behind it into a peculiar mutant, reptilian substance. — Colin McEnroe
People ask me what makes a good funeral, and I tell them the most important thing is your man in the casket. If you have… — Cleveland Amory
The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene… — Andre Gide
Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the… — Eric Temple Bell
Man is a substance clad in shadows. — John Sterling
Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice. — Jacques Barzun
Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for… — Andre Breton
The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit… — Lord Acton
How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though… — Elizabeth Drew
In these times - where social appearance is more important than spiritual substance - what has become our longing to change is really the unconscious… — Guy Finley
What I'm above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality. If I had to sum up my work, I… — Alan Bennett
I will scrape and dig into every word as far as I can get, right down to the essence of the word, to the substance… — Chairil Anwar
Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance. — Mark McGwire

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