Substance Quotes

936 Substance quotes by 721 unique authors

With the arrival of the new comes the need to overcome fascination with novelty in order to approach substance and sophistication - a sophistication born… — John Paul Caponigro
A movement only becomes a movement of substance, size, and power when the artists say 'we want to add our voice.' — Kumi Naidoo
Ether is the only substance we are confident of in dynamics. One thing we are sure of and that is the reality and substantiality of… — Lord Kelvin
The same substance composes us--the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star--we are all one, all moving to the same… — P L Travers
[L]ife, individual or collective, personal or historic, is the one entity in the universe whose substance is compact of danger, of adventure. It is, in… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything which is within… — Marcus Aurelius
All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of… — Marcus Aurelius
From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible… — Marcus Aurelius
Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a… — Marcus Aurelius
Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed. — William Hazlitt
A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the… — Karl Marx
Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant. — Karl Marx
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality. — Mahatma Gandhi
I'd hate it to become style over substance, I'd hate people to start putting me in a magazine article about my style. I don't like… — Ellie Goulding
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where… — Robert Crumb
I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on… — Jamie Lee Curtis
I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some… — Fred Durst
Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat… — Mohamed ElBaradei
I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said… — Ralph Ellison
Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind. — Charles Fillmore
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass… — William Hazlitt
I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music. You might hear a song with a… — Jennifer Hudson
You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance. — Charles Ives

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