Quotes About Substance

In general, in the Mosaic books, style mirrors substance. The way something is said is often connected to what is being said.

Even if I were trying to catch a husband I would never fish in shallow waters.

Todo es forma y casi nada es contenido.

Cuando uno se olvida de ir a lo sustancial, se pierde en lo anecdótico.

And it especially cannot endure when powerful groups in that society seek at every turn to undermine and destroy its very being. The threats to democracy are not always from enemies abroad. They can come from those within who espouse the language of democracy and use the liberties afforded them by democratic institutions to undermine the substance of democracy. Weimar cautions us to be wary of those people as well. What comes next can be very bad, even worse than imaginable.

human beings were taken from the earth and don't just consist of thin air and thoughts.

A saccharine, easy grace is no grace at all.

The left is expert at imagistics. The right is not, because the right falsely believes that shallow imagistics can be beaten with substance. Which has worked out fabulously for every great actress who is 300 lbs. in Hollywood – all two of them who are working.

God is a thing that thinks.

The benzodiazepines (especially IM lorazepam) are used to manage substance induced and psychotic agitation in the emergency department. Benzodiazepines have been used instead of amobarbital (Amytal) for drug-assisted interviewing.

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

I can't bring myself to release an instrumental album because I feel like I want some meat on the bone. Something to chew on, lyrically and content-wise.

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

Spinoza is, for me, the 'prince' of philosophers.

They think my mother's ashes are marijuana.

Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important.

down to brass tacks. What have you

Its a fact of being in love that we often pay no attention whatsoever to the substance of what a lover says, while being intoxicated to ecstasy by the way it's said. I was in love with her eyes, but I didn't read them. I loved her voice, but I didn't really hear the fear & the anguish in it.

This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy.

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

If you can't eat it, can't sleep under it, can't wear it or make something from it, it's not worth anything.

There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.

I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.

As the Tories know, the problem with setting yourself up as a shining example for others to follow is that when you get caught out, that proverbial substance really hits the fan.