Substance Quotes
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No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here.
William Shakespeare -
I always think of space-time as being the real substance of space, and the galaxies and the stars just like the foam on the ocean.
George Smoot
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For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.
Abraham Lincoln -
This legendary Amazonian substance is a cybernetic transdimentional medium of some sort that is generated out of the mysteries of the physiology of the human body.
Terence McKenna -
Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.
Asger Jorn -
Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any length of time without annihilating the human and natural substance of society; it would have physically destroyed man and transformed his surroundings into a wilderness.
Karl Polanyi -
Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.
Calvin Miller -
I always tell people that if they want to know about the history of a country, do not go to the history books, go to the fiction. Fiction is not fiction. It is the substance and heartbeat of a people's life, here, now, and in the past.
Chenjerai Hove
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A good stunt has to have both style and substance. It's a combination of impact and notoriety, the element of danger, technical execution, and the skill of the stunt performer.
Steve Truglia -
Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.
William Shakespeare -
Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.
Mohamed ElBaradei -
For every drug that benefits a patient, there is a natural substance that can achieve the same effect.
Carl Pfeiffer -
How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable substance. The emptiness in her thoughts would not be so easily filled. Instead there was a hollowness among them-a place she had reserved for future joys which now would never arrive.
Galen Beckett -
Is it not reasonable to think that by far the greater part is solid and dark, and that this immense globe is encompassed with a thin covering of that resplendent substance from which the sun would seem to derive the whole of his vivifying heat and energy?
Agnes Mary Clerke
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Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.
Ethan Zuckerman -
If you think a caregiver has an active substance abuse problem, that person should never be entrusted with your child.
Emily Yoffe -
Luck is a finite and rare substance in the universe, like palladium or cobalt. To use it, you have to take it from somebody else.
Catherynne M. Valente -
Boredom is actually the most plentiful substance in the universe.
Amber Dermont -
Number was the substance of all things.
Pythagoras -
The only requirement of a symbol is that it have substance underneath: The first thing to do is to try to establish the substance. The style comes after the substance. Only then can the style help the substance, and vice versa.
Wallace Olins, CBE
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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.
Asvaghosa -
Keep in mind that there are many neurotoxins in the world. Dozens of natural and industrial substances have neurotoxic properties.
Harvey V. Fineberg -
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
Miguel de Unamuno -
We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.
Wilhelm Wundt