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Quotes About Substance

Faith is not a leap in the dark. Faith is not a "hope so." Faith is substance and evidence - substance for a scientific mind, and evidence for a legal mind.
~ J. Vernon McGee
Faith is the substance of whatever it is that we hope for. The important thing is that we teach that faith is connected to good works and responsibility.
~ T. D. Jakes
You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.
~ Charles Ives
I hope people will find the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] a whole lot more than hollow.
~ Andy Cohen
Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.
~ Robin Williams
In those days the best painkiller was ice; it wasn't addictive and it was particularly effective if you poured some whiskey over it.
~ George Burns
Caffeine. The gateway drug.
~ Eddie Vedder
I used to do drugs. I still do drugs. But I used to, too.
~ Mitch Hedberg
By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them
~ Kevin Rudd
Eggs! They're not a food, they belong in no group! They're just farts clothed in substance!
~ Dylan Moran
High Times magazine is a notch intellectually below Highlights for Children. I mean, they're both great to read when you're baked, but come on, ya know.
~ David Cross
The school had a big problem with drugs... especially Class A.
~ Milton Jones
But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even.
~ Irvine Welsh, Porno
Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.
~ Eric Temple Bell
I find it depressing that people think you have to be on drugs to watch [my stuff], that's a cop out, use your brain, use your imagination.
~ Noel Fielding
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
~ William Shakespeare
The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.
~ Russell Hoban
To a great mind, nothing is little.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
A powerful foundation is worth it in a long run
~ Nathi Mtsweni
Events don't make a person interesting. It's who they are and what's inside them that makes them interesting.
~ Christy Reece, Too Far Gone
For everything sacred has the substance of dreams and memories, and so we experience the miracle of what is separated from us by time or distance suddenly being made tangible.
~ Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow
The term numinous is like the terms substance, meaning, being, and a host of other terms; in the final analysis we can only define them in terms of themselves.
~ James W Sire
way agave syrup went from a miracle sweetener to a dangerous substance.
~ Jan Chozen Bays
There are worlds / in which nothing is adjective, everything noun.
~ Jane Hirshfield