Substance Quotes

936 Substance quotes by 721 unique authors

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate. — Victor Hugo
Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface. — Victor Hugo
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. — Carl Jung
My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me. — Franz Kafka
High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and… — Henry A. Kissinger
Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared… — Lindsay Lohan
Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current… — Anne Sullivan Macy
Let's hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to… — Simon Mainwaring
Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance. — Wynton Marsalis
When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance. — Freddie Mercury
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance. — John Henry Newman
Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs… — Bill Nye
We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance. — Goran Persson
I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had… — Pat Robertson
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost… — Marquis de Sade
Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form. — Jessica Savitch
As I've gotten older, I've become attracted to things that have substance. — Sean William Scott
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. — John Sculley
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. — William Shakespeare
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But… — George Soros
Practically and commercially speaking, a dollar is not necessarily a specific thing, made of silver, or gold, or any other single metal, or substance. It… — Lysander Spooner
In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance. — James Surowiecki
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that… — Alvin Toffler
Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever… — Eckhart Tolle

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