Substance Quotes

936 Substance quotes by 721 unique authors

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
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

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