Quotes About Substance

Truth is in things, and not in words.

My body is but the lees of my better being.

a purse is but a rag unless you have something in it.

Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance.

Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity. But what then? Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air. Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being.

Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.

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.

I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated as a health problem and not as a police problem.

Too many people are suffering from severe behavioral health and substance use issues on our streets, which puts a strain on our hospitals and our criminal justice system instead of treating the root cause.

Researchers, treatment providers - we all have a stake in the drug hysteria game.

There are now more teens going into treatment for marijuana dependency than for all other drugs combined.

less small talk and more real talk.

The value of human beings does not consist in their appearance

DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don't want to know about it.

What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.

I will smoke crack before I die. I want to see what all the hubbub is about.

Faith becomes a bridge between where I am and where I want to go- it is a substance.

I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.

THE BIG PICTURE A. WISDOM: THE FOUNDATION OF RECOVERY (1:1-27) B. FAITH: THE SUBSTANCE OF RECOVERY (2:1-26) C. SELF-CONTROL: SETTING BOUNDARIES IN RECOVERY (3:1-18) D. HUMILITY: THE ATTITUDE OF RECOVERY (4:1-17) E. GIVING OF OURSELVES: THE EVIDENCE OF RECOVERY (5:1-20)

Whereas Spinoza begins with contestable definitions of substance, attribute and mode, Hegel begins with the utterly indeterminate thought of pure 'being'.

Time . . . strange stuff," mused Thomas. "Time is the central mystery of our existence. It confines and defines us in many ways. We are obedient to its inexorable mechanism throughout our lives, and yet we know almost nothing about it. Why does it flow in only one direction? What is it made of ? How is it regulated? Is it everywhere the same for everyone? Or might its substance or speed be altered by mechanisms as yet undiscovered?

Fear is nothing more than the dark side of thought, it has substance only in the mind. We create it, and we alone can destroy it.

It is only in Christ that we will find the spirit, the substance, the strength, the stamina, and the skill to engage each other in ways that will enable us to move forward as God intends.

that matter what's swimming in it.