Quotes About Substance

An idea is a being incorporeal, which has no subsistence by itself, but gives figure and form unto shapeless matter, and becomes the cause of manifestation.

But what use was the semblance of power without the substance?

We pour anything. Or if it doesn't pour, we'll get you the needle, the inhaler, or a suppository blank.

When the liberal teaching became dominant, as is the case with most victorious causes, good arguments became less necessary; and the original good arguments, which were difficult, were replaced by plausible simplificationsor by nothing. The history of liberal thought since Locke and Smith has been one of almost unbroken decline in philosophic substance.

The history of liberal thought since Locke and Smith has been one almost unbroken decline in philosophic substance.

There is one domain in which untruth is insupportable, that field of the human soul's endeavor of which Truth is the very substance and being, - religion

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1

We'd run out of coke but not out of time.

Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.

I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.

The dose makes the poison.

I'm not going to deny the fact that I've tried pot. I hated it.

Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.

The appearance doesn't matter as much as the content.

Style without content is bad style.

I've never taken drugs. My drug, I suppose, is drink. I never drink before I sing, but I do make up for it when I come off!

I think talk is cheap - when I hear people say what they'd like to happen, I think it's empty.

I'm not a good small talker. I'm not into small talk, frankly.

I think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture.

Stop trying to impress people with your clothes and impress them with your life.

My strong point is not rhetoric, it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises-those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth.

Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating.

All gold does not glitter.

people will frame a divinity to themselves, pleasing to the flesh suitable to their own ends, which, being vain in the substance, will prove likewise vain in the fruit, and as a building upon the sand.