Quotes About Substance

In addition to thalidomide, Grünenthal's painkiller tramadol—created in 1962 by former SS doctor Ernst-Günther Schenck—sparked a decades-long global opioid crisis before it was classified as a Schedule IV controlled substance in 2014.

did not have enough substance to trigger the opening of a supermarket door

Pot came first when I was young. But I did the work. It wasn't a battle of what came first. They went together like "love and marriage, horse and carriage!"

I know lots of people that take cocaine three nights a week and get up and go to work every day, no problem. But we never hear that side of the story.

As long as my work continues to speak for itself outside of what I look like, I'm okay.

You throw away the substance from which life is made of when you waste time

The material of life is made from time

The value of a substance is the product of the time spent to achieve it

Time is the material from which everything is made

Time is the material from which life is made

I think you only have to pull stunts if the content of your music is meaningless.

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

The heavy subject matter is the most fun stuff to work with. It's the meaty things, it's the things that you get to get stuck in.

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

It's really scary or it's easy to generate fear around an idea or around an -ism when you don't provide any substance to it.

The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula.

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

The body is the substance of the stone.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.