No Substance Quotes
Facts of experience are valued in Zen more than representations, symbols, and concepts-that is to say, substance is everything in Zen and form nothing.
There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter.
Alcoholism, tobacco, drunk driving, these things will always be with us. There's always going to be a certain percentage of any population that is addicted to certain substances.
Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters.
Christmas means 'giving,' and the gift without the giver is bare. Give of yourselves; give of your substance; give of your heart and mind.
I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance to the poor, than the long, smooth faced hypocrite.
The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.
So far we still don't know whether angels are ethereal beings of light without substance or if they take a solid human form with real wings which actually enable them to fly.
As my uncle always says, 'If your vibe outweighs your substance, you're destined to be a novelty.' I think that is true in all art.
Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.
I am convinced that in times such as these, every man must be a soldier, in substance as well as in name.
We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.
Self, service, substance is the Divine order and nothing counts until we give ourselves.
Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.
Once you’ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe.
If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.
It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.
Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species. To drink beer is to be human.
That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.
Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.
Kant takes a free will to be a being or substance with the power to cause a state of the world (or a whole series of such states) spontaneously or from itself.
A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.
I know of no culture in the world at present or any time in the past that has not been heavily involved with one or more psychoactive substances.
A man of substance should trust very carefully an online networking friend whose shared images are not often palatable to his taste.
I think Chappelle set the bar when he came out with his show. To be as great as him or greater you have to push it a little further - as long as there's substance in terms of the material.
The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.
Playing quarterback ... it's no joke ... The difference here with Johnny Manziel, there's a lot of style and very little substance.
In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.
It's gratifying to know that you've appeared in someone else's dreams. It's proof that you exist, in a way, proof that you have substance and value outside the walls of your own mind.
Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.
Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.
Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me
Every day, I'll get sent clips via email. I watch them and see if there's something of substance or significance.Some nights are super busy; some nights are quiet.
Some record labels want to package you in a certain way and we didn't want that. Once the record company saw we had some substance and were not a one hit wonder. They got 100% behind us.
Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.
I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.
A refrigerator runs by converting the dust behind it into a peculiar mutant, reptilian substance.