Substance Quotes

936 Substance quotes by 721 unique authors

The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ... Substance abusing writers… — Stephen King
For an instant she felt them, their identities, almost their substance, pass over her head like a wave. At some time she would be â€”… — Margaret Atwood
You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of… — Rod Serling
Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in a single consciousness… — Marcus Aurelius
A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature… — Tom Robbins
Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them… — Anna Quindlen
The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take… — Nhat Hanh
Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories,… — Albert Camus
You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending,… — Carrie Fisher
Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows. — William Shakespeare
...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking. — David Foster Wallace
I love you," he writes again and again. "I can't bear to live without you. I'm counting the minutes until I see you." The words… — Christina Baker Kline
The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of… — John Muir
Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest. — Amos Bronson Alcott
In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it… — Thomas Carlyle
Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook. — Ambrose Bierce
Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and meaning for our… — J. William Fulbright
When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will… — John Ruskin
Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the… — Robert Penn Warren
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been. — Mark Twain

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