Substance Quotes

936 Substance quotes by 721 unique authors

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
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

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