Substance Quotes

936 Substance quotes by 721 unique authors

The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given… — Hermann Hesse
For you must know, gentlemen, that when the mariner is dosed, he likes to know that he has been dosed: with fifteen grains or even… — Patrick O'Brian
Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and spice and everything nice, which encourages them not… — Sarah Dessen
He felt full of a dense and sour substance that was blocking his chest, and it wasn't grief. After all those years, life now seemed… — Etgar Keret
Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen… — Boris Pasternak
We are in the dark places of the earth," said Madman. "Where all the ancient and most dangerous secrets are kept. There are Old Things… — Simon R. Green
Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And,… — Haruki Murakami
At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings,… — Jean Cocteau
He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees. Prepares your brittle substance… — Emily Dickinson
This is the middle of my life, I think of it as a place, like the middle of a river, the middle of a bridge,… — Margaret Atwood
Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow-- it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a… — Shakti Gawain
Being In Love Means hard questions. Will I? Won't I? Should I? Could I? Yes? No? You? Me? There is no me without you. Is… — Ellen Hopkins
A man's physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in the Atlantic. But… — C.S. Lewis
In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either. — Warren Buffett
The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance. — Maud Hart Lovelace
Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity. — Tim O'Brien
It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until… — Jeanette Winterson
You love your work. God help you, you love it! And thats the curse. That's the brand on your forehead for all of them to… — Ayn Rand
Angel?" I said. "Baby penguins eat a regurgitated mixture of partially digested fish, krill, and an oily substance form their fathers' stomachs. Are you willing… — James Patterson
But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. — Thomas Merton
It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of… — Aberjhani
It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
He wanted to tell her that he was inspired and vigilant and recklessly alone, that his body contained his unsteady heart and something else, something… — Michael Cunningham
During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and… — Vladimir Lenin

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