Substance Quotes

936 Substance quotes by 721 unique authors

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
Itâ€™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 liquidâ€”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
...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 â€˜repayâ€™ his debt, â€˜his own consciousnessâ€™ of the fact â€˜that he is himself the very substanceâ€™ 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 â€˜keeping away from the dope.â€™ 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 youâ€™re going?â€ Dr. Nokes demandedâ€¦. â€œWhat do you have for directions?â€ And Dadâ€¦ said, â€œI have the substance of things hoped… — Leif Enger
I donâ€™t see any police cars.â€ â€œThey 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

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