Substance Quotes

936 Substance quotes by 721 unique authors

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
Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must… — Victor Hugo
Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts , and power addicts, and the pure addicts who are addicted… — Jeet Thayil
One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance. — Helen Fielding
You said to me once that you werenâ€™t what I dreamed of. You were right. You surpass everything I dreamed of. Even the rot in… — Melina Marchetta
One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All… — Jean Rhys

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