Quotes About Substance

You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.

You take the drugs to escape your own reality, but in the comedowns the reality only becomes more depressing, and the stronger the substance, the harsher the aftermath.

I don't want just words. If that's all you have for me, I'm sorry I'm so much better than words." Bye.

Real life is all about real things!" You can't turn off real life.

and even I, looking at the high masts, saw, or imagined, the geography which had been scantily dosed to me at school gradually taking substance under my eyes.

They seemed to have the coloration and texture of the rubber in a pencil eraser. They

I'm a connoisseur of the poppy. I know my stuff. This diluted muck barely passes muster.

He was laid-back. Drugs'll do that to a person. Take a pill and you're not really crazy anymore.

No, no, no. We're not stopping to talk to Marty…" Hey, Marty, how ya doing, man?" No, no, The Duke, we don't need any cocaine today. Keep moving. Keep moving.

I never represented glam. That's the thing, you'll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I'm uninterested in it. I find it trivial and banal and boring.

The cyber security strategy for the United Kingdom is a master of the formulaic jargon we have come to associate with the Labour government, and is almost totally devoid of substance.

Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal.

Every soul and spirit has some degree of continuity with the universal spirit, which is recognized to be located not only where the individual soul lives and perceives, but also to be spread out everywhere in its essence and substance, as many Platonists and Pythagoreans have taught.

There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

Surely, if life is good, it is good throughout its substance; we cannot separate men's activities from women's and say, these are worthy of praise and these unworthy.

As long as we deny a person or group the claim to be as right and as real as we are, so long may we hold this dreamlike claim for ourselves alone. And it is the duty of everyone to inculcate a sense of nothingness, an ache of being empty of substance and value, in those who are not emulations of them.

But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.

Matter is changing and transient, but substance or spirit is unchanging and eternal.

Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.

the life and substance of all things must first subsist as images in the Divine Mind before they can come into manifestation in the world of time and space, much as in Plato's conception of archetypal ideas;

Debaixo e atrás do véu das doutrinas dos diversos cultos e escolas, acha-se ainda constantemente o princípio da Substância Mental do Universo. Se o Universo é mental na sua natureza substancial, segue-se que a Transmutação Mental pode mudar as condições e os fenômenos do Universo. Se o Universo é mental, a Mente será o poder mais elevado que produz os seus fenômenos.

I have way too many commitments. I get pulled in too many directions and I never seem to be able to satisfy anybody. People get turned on by knowing a celebrity, even my friends and family. They feel that there's something exciting about me, but in reality there's no substance to it. People in airports just hold on to me expecting something and it seems that I always come up empty. It's frustrating because I'm trying to please everybody, and ya just can't do that ... at least I can't.

I admit I was the guy who removed all the bullets from the assault rifle's extended magazine and then filled it with pot. But now I realize that was wrong because marijuana is dangerous.