Substance Quotes

936 Substance quotes by 721 unique authors

That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is… — Hugh Miller
We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover air, the substance… — Unknown Author
I have a dream, and a plan, to combine the commercial possibilities of Valentine's Day with the substance and meaning of black history month. I… — Mo Rocca
A drug is a substance which, if injected into a rabbit, produces a paper. — Unknown Author
So much for the crusade against drugs . . . all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest dealer in addictive… — Alexander Cockburn
In fact, whenever energy is transmitted from one body to another in time, there must be a medium or substance in which the energy exists… — James Clerk Maxwell
We're making new investments in the development of gasoline and diesel and jet fuel that's actually made from a plant-like substance-algae...we could replace up to… — Barack Obama
Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by… — Baruch Spinoza
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth. — William Shakespeare
As a result of continuous work with these highly toxic substances, our minds were so numbed that we no longer had any scruples about the… — Otto Hahn
Many different substances, as distinct to the practiced eye as stone and wood, go to the making of a novel, and it is necessary to… — Percy Lubbock
The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished… — Edward Weston
What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but… — Charles Caleb Colton
I've always been infuriated by Bertie, I have to say. I never appreciated his style of politics. I thought it was very superficial, running around… — Lucinda Creighton
At the next election he'll offer the British public an alternative that provides weight and substance and seriousness in a political debate that is, frankly,… — Paddy Ashdown
Compounds of gaseous substances with each other are always formed in very simple ratios, so that representing one of the terms by unity, the other… — Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in… — Isaac Asimov
I have one great political idea. . . . That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is… — Frederick Douglass
The greatest of all our human concepts is the immortality of the personality and the eternal glory of the human soul. Throughout eternity you will… — Sterling W Sill
The rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it… — Fulton J. Sheen
Christ used the flesh and blood of Mary for his life on earth, the Word of love was uttered in her heartbeat. Christ used his… — Caryll Houselander
Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga… — Mahatma Gandhi
Your ideas about right and wrong are just that-ideas. They are the thoughts which form the shape and create the substance of Who You Are.… — Neale Donald Walsch
Hence as a private man has a right to say what wages he will give in his private affairs, so has a Community to determine… — Samuel Adams
Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties.… — Mary Baker Eddy

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