Substance Quotes - Page 16

Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum.

Unbuttered toast is a substance half complete, and to be forced to eat it in that state is necessarily to feel deprived.

In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.

To get some of the substance of why [Michael] Flynn [is Defense Adviser] is so controversial.

Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.

...because he believed that if you wanted to get rid of a hole, you filled it. He had not realized at the time that there were all sorts of filler that took up space, but had no substance. That made you feel just as empty.

Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.

Words enable us to transfer our thoughts from inside our own mind into the mind of another. They have the power to alter history, to describe the past, and to bring meaning and substance to the present.

Once you’ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe.

I don't think in national categories. For me it [policy] is about concepts and substance.

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.

I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance problem.

In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance.

In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance

Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.

There is universal substance which is divine substance because where else can it be?

Africa, amongst the continents, will teach it to you: that God and the Devil are one, the majesty coeternal, not two uncreated but one uncreated, and the Natives neither confounded the persons nor divided the substance.

Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.

Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick.

No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.

Every man starts with all there is. Everything is here-the essence and substance of all there is.

I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance, complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend.

Keep in mind that there are many neurotoxins in the world. Dozens of natural and industrial substances have neurotoxic properties.

But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.