Substance Quotes - Page 14

He screamed. Mmm?' inquired the gentleman. I...I would never presume to interrupt you, sir. But the ground appears to be swallowing me up.' It is a bog,' said the gentleman, helpfully. It is certainly a most terrifying substance.

We had given it a name, a substance, and somehow, in doing that, we had condemned ourselves.

The Constitution deals with substance, not shadows.

Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness.

Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.

Art is an attempt to give substance to existence.

As I've gotten older, I've become attracted to things that have substance.

Now, I worry a bit about the TEDification of the world where style trumps substance, so hopefully you have a good blend of both!

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

Therefore, the substance of [Donald] Trump policies never got covered, because it wasn't what interested the media.

I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.

Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.

I looked to animal and insect imagery to develop the lack of substance and wasted motion that my Terminator has. I tried to tap into the killer instinct inherent in animals, where they are locked onto a target and will walk through anything that gets between them and their intended target.

Substance is a subspecies of value. When you reverse the containment process and define substance in terms of value the mystery disappears: substance is a "stable pattern of inorganic values." The problem then disappears. The world of objects and the world of values is unified.

It was the sort of house that glows with substance and savoir vivre in those advertisements for the best Scotch. It had wonderful bones.

Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.

The prevailing attitude towards nature is that form of heresy which denies substance and, in doing so, denies the rightfulness of creation. We have said - to the point of repletion, perhaps - that man is not to take his patterns from nature; but neither is he to waste himself in seeking to change her face.

A boy is the only known substance from which a man can be made.

Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things.

All substances the cunning chemist Time Melts down into that liquor of my life.

The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.

How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!

Obama is very much an establishment sort of guy. The whole image of him as a transcendent figure was based on style rather than substance. If you actually looked at what he said, not how he said it, he said very establishment things. He's a moderate, cautious, ameliorative guy. He tends to gravitate toward Beltway conventional wisdom.

The language of chemistry simply does not mesh with that of biology. Chemistry is about substances and how they react, whereas biology appeals to concepts such as information and organisation. Informational narratives permeate biology.