Quotes About Substance

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

Many attenders, lacking any understanding about the content or purposes of worship, assume that the routines and rituals that occur in worship services constitute the substance of worship. Consequently

I do not say that things in themselves possess a quantity, that their reality possesses a degree, their existence a connection of accidents in a substance, etc. This nobody can prove, because such a synthetic connection from mere concepts, without any reference to sensuous intuition on the one side or connection of such intuition in a possible experience on the other, is absolutely impossible.

it should be the likes ay us that agitate for change, but aw we dae is drugs.

Algunos pobres cabrones simplemente están mucho más predispuestos hacia la adicción a ciertas drogas que otros.

Acid, man, fuck that, never again, never until the next time at any rate.

We abandoned the appearance of power to preserve the essence of it.

Since the forthcoming write-up of my Ph.D. dissertation was much in my mind, it was the work of a moment to begin a solemn dissertation containing all the stigmata of academic turgidity about a substance which dissolved in water 1.12 seconds before you added the water.

the Emperor had had to remember to avoid making commitments of substance, while freely applying the lotion of words without substance.

L'essenziale è spesso invisibile; è solo il cuore, e non l'occhio, a poterlo cogliere, ma la macchina fotografica a volte sfiora tracce di quella sostanza.

I'd rather have an inch of dog than miles of pedigree.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

It's a rare thing, graciousness. The shape of it can be acquired, but not, I think, the substance.

As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.

You often see lifestyle over substance in L.A. Some rock stars dress up like they're going to play a gig when they're just going to the 7-Eleven store on a Tuesday night.

With Biggie, I thought his flow and his swag was better than Tupac's, but I thought Tupac's passion and ability to relate to the average person was better than Biggie, and I thought Nas was kind of like both, with a lot substance going but a lot of swag.

Today's marijuana is also twice as strong as it was in the mid 80's.

Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing.

Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.

Such simple and steady acts of kindness are the essence of love, the substance of life. All of us need love; all of us want love. Everything else is a consolation prize. What matters is love.

There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that.

When you're playing someone who drinks a lot, it's not that interesting to play that condition because as soon as you know that, you got all the information you're going to get from it. It's like hitting the same note on the piano over and over again.

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

It is with words that my heart sings, with the substance of integrity my character soars and without regret I look back smiling ~bns