Substance Quotes

That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.

Substance and content over style and hype any day.

A substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.

Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament.

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 you have any substance.

The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.

Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time.

Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.

Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies; The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare, And shed their substance on the floating air.

Eggs! They're not a food, they belong in no group! They're just farts clothed in substance!

Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.

Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

[Race] had no substance, like a shadowy shape that terrifies in the dark but vanishes by the light of day.

The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.

Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.

My bitterness is not an abstract substance, it is as solid as a Christmas cake; I can cut it in slices and hand it round and there is still plenty left, for tomorrow.

We all think we have time, you know. It's this miracle substance and there seems to be so much of it, and then all of a sudden, it's gone.

I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too.

Before one can generalize, formalize, and axiomatize, there must be a mathematical substance.

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

I think I enjoy playing human beings no matter the substance of their character.

The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.

Everything one sees is merely a projection of what one does not see, its true nature and substance.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.

Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.

Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in their reach inward, via print, for a way out of loneliness.

Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.

At the factory, I deal with ex-cons, substance abusers, and sexual harassers. And I'm not just talking about my mom.

Trust arises from the mind's instinctive feeling after fixed realities, after the substance of every shadow, the base of all appearance, the everlasting amid change.

It's 103 comedians, or however many it is, and how would everyone tell it. It's enough people of substance that it makes you think of the people who aren't there that are alive.

Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.

[A vitamin is] a substance you get sick from if you don't eat it.

The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.

A drug is a substance which, if injected into a rabbit, produces a paper.

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light.

The creature called man has a strange history. He is not of one piece, nor was he born of a single moment in time. His elementary substance is stardust almost as old as the universe.

Our actions are the evidence of our belief and become the substance of our faith.

I don't want the Obama era to be more about symbolism than substance when it comes to black people. I love him, but I love black people even more.

If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.

People ask me what makes a good funeral, and I tell them the most important thing is your man in the casket. If you have a man of substance in there, you have the makings of a first-class funeral.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice.

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principle of individuation is matter.

The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.

The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.

Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.