Substance Quotes

936 Substance quotes by 721 unique authors

What is it that dies? A log of wood dies to become a few planks. The planks die to become a chair. The chair dies… — Swami Satchidananda
There was so much of beauty here: the neat, small tracks of a foraging creature, stoat or marten; the inticate tracery of a skeleton leaf,… — Juliet Marillier
It's gratifying to know that you've appeared in someone else's dreams. It's proof that you exist, in a way, proof that you have substance and… — Carolyn Parkhurst
As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the substance; the face… — Roland Barthes
And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the… — Brandon Sanderson
Work is the only thing that gives substance to life. — Albert Einstein
If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim to honour, freedom,… — Glen Cook
Think of the universal substance, of which thou has a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and indivisible interval has… — Marcus Aurelius
I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his own life's preservation,… — Steven Pressfield
You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved… — Oscar Wilde
let me tell you what happens when you cook down the syrup of loss over the open fire of sorrow: it solidfies into something wlaw.… — Jodi Picoult
The one and only time an archangel can Make another angel is when our bodies produce a substance known as ambrosia. Ambrosia,is produced instinctively at… — Nalini Singh
Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and if He lacked… — Victor Hugo
In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every… — Aldous Huxley
I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if… — Charles Portis
It’s the glitches and twists, I thought, that make this universe unique and compelling. Without flaws, there would be no depth, no substance. — A.M. Jenkins
Cats and ghosts both partook of the saucers of milk and that was okay. They consumed different parts of it: the cats its substance, the… — Laini Taylor
Soul. The word rebounded to me, and I wondered, as I often had, what it was exactly. People talked about it all the time, but… — Sue Monk Kidd
One down," Beckendorf said. "About five thousand to go." He tossed me a jar of thick green liquid—Greek fire, one of the most dangerous magical… — Rick Riordan
The phytochemicals, antioxidants, and fiber- all of the healthful components of plant foods- originate in plants, not animals. If they are present, it is because… — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life. — Sidney Sheldon
Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us… — George Orwell
I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us… — Albert Hofmann
In Chinese, the word for heart and mind is the same -- Hsin. For when the heart is open and the mind is clear they… — Stephen Levine

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