Substances Quotes

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As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where… — Robert Crumb
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. — Carl Jung
Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs… — Bill Nye
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that… — Alvin Toffler
The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there,… — Audrey Niffenegger
The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground,… — Wendell Berry
Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it… — Sigmund Freud
A man's physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in the Atlantic. But… — C.S. Lewis
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 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
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
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
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
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
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos; the materials must in the first… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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