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Quotes About Substance

There is a southern proverb—fine words butter no parsnips.
~ Walter Scott
After 20 years on the bench I have concluded that federal drug laws are a disaster. It is time to get the government out of drug enforcement.
~ Whitman Knapp
A large dose of niacin is one of the most rapid and reliable ways to pull a person out of a bad trip on psychedelic drugs.
~ Daniel P. Reid
Indeed, feelings don't just matter–they are what mattering means.
~ Daniel Todd Gilbert
New things have to be a pretty good size to make a difference."
~ Darren Huston
Cocaine jokes should just be one liners.
~ Dave Weasel
I have millions of likes and follows on all platforms but turned it off as I don't want to be liked because everyone is doing it, I want to be liked or hated by my substance I sow and produce.
~ James D Wilson
The body is the one thing you can't fake; it's just got to be there.
~ James Dickey
Where did Wayne Newton go when the USA went to shit? I was more stoned than I had realized.
~ James Howard Kunstler
Everything is already integrated within this mind so it is not about keeping the good and the bad separate. The good and the bad have no essence or substance; they are the ceaseless play of the clarity of the mind.
~ James Low
Our journey is about faith. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Not the proving of such things.
~ James Rollins
You always remember your first overdose.
~ James St. James
It's not about outward appearances but inward significance.
~ Donna Tartt
is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty—unless she is wed to something more meaningful—is always superficial.
~ Donna Tartt
There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty — unless she is wed to something more meaningful — is always superficial.
~ Donna Tartt
Everything," a journalist observed, "tended to represent the home of a man who has battled hard with the fortunes of life, and whose hard experience had taught him to enjoy whatever of success belongs to him, rather in solid substance than in showy display.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.
~ Douglas Coupland
Nobody ever mentions the good side of OxyContin: It makes you feel like Jesus fucking a horse.
~ Douglas Coupland
We don't just look for dead bodies. That day, we were actually looking for a cache of heroin somebody'd thrown off a bridge.
~ Douglas Preston
Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
~ Aesop
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
~ Aesop
I am all that there is of the most real.
~ Agatha Christie
Steve McCroskey Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines
~ Airplane
Steve McCroskey Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue
~ Airplane