Quotes About Substance

I'm doped and thick from my last sleeping pill.

Meanwhile the substance of our first act Will be shadows, and the strife with shadows.

I do not think I was afraid. There must be substance to breed fear, and I was hollow.

Man is a machine and… in the whole universe there is but a single substance variously modified.

I don't think that now: half of everything is something, not nothing. Lots of somethings

I did not see sin", says Julian of Norwich in her Revelations, "for I believe that it has no kind of substance, no share in being; nor can it be recognized except by the pain caused by it.

I can't imagine making something that is made only to be scary. For me, the darkness and scary material has to have meaning attached to it, or I can't invest the time and energy it takes to write and script or make a movie. It has to mean something.

If all you have to criticise me on is my age or my accent, then you really can't defeat me on the issues.

But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature, so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth: but when it once is comprehended in exact methods, it may perchance, be further polished and illustrate and accommodated for use and practice; but it increaseth no more in bulk and substance.

it often falls out that somewhat is produced of nothing; for lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Faith and reason are not, as many seem to be arguing today, mutually exclusive. They never have been. The letter to the Hebrews in the New Testament defines faith as 'the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of the things not seen.

Faith and reason are not, as many seem to be arguing today, mutually exclusive. They never have been. The letter to the Hebrews in the New Testament defines faith as 'the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of the things not seen.

A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.

My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Joy was substance over optics," he said. "Joy was a long-term thinker. Joy was bold.

But he'd found that imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.

Imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.

Metal. It was the key to everything.

The God King's superiority was arbitrary, much like Lightsong's divinity— both part of a grand game of make-believe. But he'd found that imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.

But he'd found that imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's live.

An awed voice in the back of his mind whispered, They're all the same. Metal, minds, men, all the same substance.…

The man who was talking had ceased to be of human size or proportions but had become a Colossus whose silhouette swooned backwards and forwards with the deep droning rhythm of his drug-laden phrases. He went on and on and on, unhurried, unruffled, inexhaustible, inextinguishable, a voice that had taken form and shape and substance, a figure that had outgrown its human frame, a silhouette whose reverberations rumbled in the depths of the distant mountain sides.

The oranges of Bosch's Millennium . . . exhale this dreamlike reality which constantly eludes us and which is the very substance of life.

An artifact can be thought of as a meeting point—an "interface" in today's terms—between an "inner" environment, the substance and organization of the artifact itself, and an "outer" environment, the surroundings in which it operates. If the inner environment is appropriate to the outer environment, or vice versa, the artifact will serve its intended purpose.