Quotes About Substance

The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.

There's no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out.

I'd rather not have a moment when I'm known for my looks; being funny and interesting lasts longer.

Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.

What is the difference between astroturf and grass? I don't know, I never smoked astroturf.

We were talking briefly about cocaine... yeah. Anything that makes you paranoid and impotent, give me more of that!

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

Ahora lo sé. No te quiero por tu cara, ni por tus años, ni por tus palabras, ni por tus intenciones. Te quiero porque estás hecho de buena madera.»

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.

The enemy casts a shadow, big and dark and menacing. But there's no substance behind it. It has a stinger, but it's lost its venom. It has a bark, but no bite. We'll all suffer death in the lowercase. But by Christ's good graces, no one need suffer death in the uppercase. Death at that scale has been undone. Death still has battalions on the ground, pitching battle, making havoc, quibbling and collaborating among themselves. But the empire backing them has collapsed.

Here's where things get interesting. A 2009 study by Dr. Serge H. Ahmed, Is Sugar as Addictive as Cocaine?, published in the journal Food and Addiction, proved that sugar was eight times as addictive as cocaine.

But I've been drinking. Last time I mixed alcohol and Xanax, I went completely crazy.

To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

Man durfte dem Bild nicht anmerken, daß es nicht mehr in Ordnung war, und man mußte immer noch ein wenig Glanz darauf legen. Je mehr sie selbst an Substanz verlor, desto strahlender, dichter und übermächtiger mußte ihr Bild werden.

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

After medical marijuana was relegalized in California, Mikuriya treated hundreds of alcoholic patients who got their lives back after switching to pot. In general, he found that an increase in the consumption of marijuana correlated with a reduction in the consumption of alcohol.

I rejoice greatly that the simple faith of this sacrament is still to be found, at least among the common people. For as they do not understand, neither do they dispute whether accidents are present without substance, but believe with a simple faith that Christ's body and blood are truly contained there, and leave to those who have nothing else to do the argument about what contains them.

Viel Leisten - wenig hervortreten - mehr sein als scheinen." Alfred Graf von Schlieffen, Generalfeldmarschall, (* 28. Februar 1833 in Berlin; † 4. Januar 1913 ebenda)

Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Maybe younger than the thirty he looked, still caught in style over substance.