Substance Quotes - Page 18

Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.

our deeds have even less substance than we ourselves.

Mere form without substance must collapse of its own weight.

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

Some record labels want to package you in a certain way and we didn't want that. Once the record company saw we had some substance and were not a one hit wonder. They got 100% behind us.

If you can stop using substance or stop your addictive behavior for extended periods of time without craving, you are not dependent. You are dependent only if you can't stop without physical or psychological distress (you have unpleasant physical and/or psychological withdrawal symptoms) or if you stop and then relapse.

You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me

For the chemists, who wanted to manufacture new medicines and elixirs and transform base substances into noble ones, the notion that there was no metaphysical barrier to doing so - it was just a matter of getting the particles into new arrangements - was encouraging. That was the Baconian programme.

People think of me as a mannequin. All show and no substance.

In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.

Playing quarterback ... it's no joke ... The difference here with Johnny Manziel, there's a lot of style and very little substance.

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

A man of substance should trust very carefully an online networking friend whose shared images are not often palatable to his taste.

The substance of the constitution is preserved. That is a fact.

I know of no culture in the world at present or any time in the past that has not been heavily involved with one or more psychoactive substances.

A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.

Boredom is actually the most plentiful substance in the universe.

Kant takes a free will to be a being or substance with the power to cause a state of the world (or a whole series of such states) spontaneously or from itself.

That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.

Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species. To drink beer is to be human.

The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.