No Substance Quotes

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens.

The power is that which generated and maintains the universe... the life-force, the stuff of creation. It is the very substance of existence itself.

Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced.

The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

Unintended Consequences is full of substance, it is one of the must-read books of the year, and once I finish it I will be giving it a second read through right away.

The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms.

Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don't know. That's got to be tough.

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.

The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!

No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here.

Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.

Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form.

Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.

The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances.

Movement is the unifying bond between the mind and the body, and sensations are the substance of that bond.

Treasure the shadow. ... There are no shadows save from substance cast.

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.

It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.

The pleasure of the true dreamer does not lie in the substance of the dream, but in this: that there things happen without any interference from his side, and altogether outside his control.

In any situation you can think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear, while patience represents substance and strength.

Women have come a long way over the past 20 years, but in substance abuse and addiction, women have come the wrong way.

Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.

The reality, or substance, of professional wrestling is the ability to perpetuate a fantasy. I never distinguished between fantasy and reality. I made my fantasy reality for over 60 years.

... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new.

Emotion and thinking are not distinct substances.

Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.

Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet .

I can’t believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to me to be a great part of the substance of human life.

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.

I don't really begrudge anyone who uses substances, I just feel that yoga is a more sustainable way to find peace because it's from the inside out.

I have a dream, and a plan, to combine the commercial possibilities of Valentine's Day with the substance and meaning of black history month. I call it: Blackentine's Day.

Substance should outweigh perfection.

I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance.

The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual wine is a different substance.

You think the shadow is the substance.

We put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking.

A person can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.

I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?

Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles.

We have to look at the substance of something rather than the shadow.

A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government.

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.