Quotes About Substance

Around then Jade happened by again. "Thought that was you," Doc said, "though we ain't exactly been wallerin in eye contact. Got your note at the office, but why'd you go runnin away like that? we could've hung out, you know, smoke some shit.

Water has more properties that are beneficial to human beings than any other substance. Also it can drown you.

One of my favorite producers, Molly McGinnis, reminded me of the time I called her into my office after hours to tell her I wasn't happy with the direction the shows were taking, saying they lacked substance.

HEAVENS NEED FURNACES Heavens need furnaces, The factories where dross converts to light gasses. The sloughed skins of dreams are instant fuel, remarkably full of oil like creosote bushes. Your worst losses warm angels; despair puts a glint on God's hair. And the nicest surprise is the substance that rises when you know you can't get there from here.

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

The addiction was all about looking for oblivion, for forgetting, the contortions we go through just enough to be ourselves for a few hours.

I don't have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with policemen.

La energía mental no es una sustancia fija. Sube y baja según la pasión y el compromiso que pongamos en lo que estemos haciendo en ese momento. El elemento diferenciador clave se encuentra en nuestra actitud y en nuestra sensación de resonancia con respecto a una actividad.

Proverbs 3:9 says, "Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase." He said, "Them that honor Me, I'll honor" (1 Sam. 2:30).

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" (Heb. 11:1).

To the North American Indian, "medicine" meant more than a substance to restore health and vitality to a sick or maladjusted body. "Medicine" was energy - a vital power or force that was inherent in Nature itself. A person's "medicine" was their power - the expression of their own life-energy system.

Suchness In the theosophy of light, The logical universal Ceases to be anything more Than the dead body of an angel. What is substance? Our substance Is whatever we feed our angel. The perfect incense for worship Is camphor, whose flames leave no ashes. from Love is an Art of Time (1974) in The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth, 702

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.

For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter. Only as a secondary consideration does he hope that some benefit may accrue to himself from the transformed substance as the panacea, the medicina catholica, just as it may to the imperfect bodies, the base or "sick" metals, etc. His attention is not directed to his own salvation through God's grace, but to the liberation of God from the darkness of matter.

His lightweight Taurus 738 TCP semiauto in .380 ACP. In an oblong, hard, and hinged box once used for sunglasses was a syringe filled with Rohypnol.

Whatever was in the syringe was taking hold of her again, pulling her down, and she felt herself swoon. There was some comfort when she closed her eyes again, and she knew she wouldn't last very long before she passed out again.

Spalding Smails This is good stuff. I got it from a Negro. You're probably high already and you don't even know it.

Addiction is a condition in which a person engages in use of a substance or in a behavior for which the rewarding effects provide a compelling incentive to repeatedly pursue the behavior despite detrimental consequences.

Thoreau's obsession with calculation helps us move past the vague subjective sense that there are trade-offs inherent in digital clutter, and forces us instead to confront it more precisely. He asks us to treat the minutes of our life as a concrete and valuable substance—arguably the most valuable substance we possess—and to always reckon with how much of this life we trade

Wealth without goodness is a worthless increase, and goodness needs substance.

Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones; and could they be brought to a plain issue they would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them would then perceive either that in substance they agreed together, or that their difference was one of first principles. We need not dispute, we need not prove, we need but define. At all events, let us, if we can, do this first of all and then see who are left for us to dispute; what is left for us to prove.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

A quick puke, two rails of blow and she was solid.

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: "Is it true in and for itself?"