Substance Quotes

936 Substance quotes by 721 unique authors

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons. — Miguel de Unamuno
I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance… — Kate Walsh
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. — Edith Wharton
I always enjoy conversation more if there is some substance to it - which is a just incredibly hilarious thing for me to say because… — Joss Whedon
One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on… — Bradley Whitford
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave… — Mary Wollstonecraft
We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance. — Wilhelm Wundt
No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here; — William Shakespeare
The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through the torrent, stood out in single drops of… — Ayn Rand
Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you… — Bryce Courtenay
O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening… — William Shakespeare
Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.' As if it were organically… — Daniel Pennac
So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed… — Jodi Picoult
Aside from velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. You can't see it or touch it, yet a plumber can charge you… — Dave Barry
Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. — William Shakespeare
Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that… — Virginia Woolf
It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand. — Audre Lorde
This is the substance of the Way of the Samurai: if by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a… — C.S. Lewis
Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society!… — Victor Hugo
In the spaniards heart is a great yearning for freedom, but only his own. A great love for truth and honor in all its forms,… — Cormac McCarthy
Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality. — Walter Kaufmann
If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future… — Gordon B. Hinckley
I remember it all: every word, every breath, every tick of the clock . . . everything that happened is with me forever. I can… — Kevin Brooks
The more we serve our fellowmen in appropriate ways, the more substance there is to our souls. We become more significant individuals as we serve… — Spencer W. Kimball

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