Substance Quotes

936 Substance quotes by 721 unique authors

...because he believed that if you wanted to get rid of a hole, you filled it. He had not realized at the time that there… — Jodi Picoult
He made a story for all of them, a story to give them strength. The words of the story poured out of his mouth as… — Leslie Marmon Silko
Seeing that he owns absolutely nothing to ‘repay’ his debt, ‘his own consciousness’ of the fact ‘that he is himself the very substance’ of debt,… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
If he were any other man, I might have suspected him of substance abuse, of being coked up or something. But Barrons was too much… — Karen Marie Moning
Getting help for substance abuse can be reduced to the deceptively simple focus of ‘keeping away from the dope.’ But what does getting help with… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
It has been my face. It's got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise have done. It's scored with deep, dry… — Marguerite Duras
Sometimes they rose up inside her, these moments of fierce happiness, kindling out of their own substance like a spark igniting a mound of grass.… — Kevin Brockmeier
Where do you think you’re going?” Dr. Nokes demanded…. “What do you have for directions?” And Dad… said, “I have the substance of things hoped… — Leif Enger
I don’t see any police cars.” “They probably had to park a couple blocks over. Anyway, as I was saying, I noticed illegal substances in… — Becca Fitzpatrick
We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the full-life… — Philip K. Dick
In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about each other in… — Virginia Woolf
... People are still disturbingly vague about the treatment of animals. People still seem to believe that meat is a particular substance not at all… — Steven Morrissey
We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love — William Butler Yeats
In our society, it is psychological murder to deprive a man of a job...you are in substance saying to that man "You have no right… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
God's command to have dominion over every living thing is a call to service, a test of responsibility, a rule of love, a cooperation with… — Hugh Nibley
The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. — Stephen King
Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship. — Charles Stanley
Meat is necessary when there is hard physical work to be done, or in a very cold climate, or when edible plants cannot be found...Animal… — G I Gurdjieff
What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Since everyone hath every one, one shade, And you,… — William Shakespeare
Nicholas Benedict did have an exceptional gift for knowing things (more exceptional, in fact, than most adults would have thought possible), and yet not even… — Trenton Lee Stewart
How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable substance. The emptiness… — Galen Beckett
In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the… — Brandon Sanderson
I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas. It's so… — Susan Cain
...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break out of the… — Robert Penn Warren
Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow… — Kay Redfield Jamison

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