No Substance Quotes

our deeds have even less substance than we ourselves.

Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.

This is true; virtually all edible substances, and many automotive products, are now marketed as being low-fat or fat-free. Americans are obsessed with fat content.

The movie's only serious criticism is reserved for Baker's television network, which doesn't think Americans care about Afghanistan - kind of hypocritical given this film's lack of substance.

The condition of the United States in the post-postmodern, or post-post-irony period. It's what the country will become when there is nothing left but mediated images of its substance.

We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.

Our response to temptation reveals the substance of our faith.

Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind

The substance of man cannot be measured by Gross National Product.

I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.

If you think a caregiver has an active substance abuse problem, that person should never be entrusted with your child.

The biographies are very enlightening because you realise, "Oh my God, all these people I’ve admired - and tried to emulate even - when I was younger died tragically from substance abuse.

Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow.

Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.

Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.

Think of a star. A star burns its very substance to give light to others. You need to be like a star.

Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.

Some people just chase the glittery stuff and they have no substance to their life whatsoever. Actually all they really want is power. But they pretend they're interested in enlightenment.

The universe is a giant perceptual matrix. It perceives itself through its substance

Your mind is your life. It's your essence and your substance. It's the part of you that has always been and will always be. Its formations change constantly, which is what makes you always new.

Illusions are shadows moving endlessly across the ground. The shadows are quite real but they're shadows. They have very little substance.

God then made the first woman, not directly out of his own substance, but from Adam's rib. Her purpose was to serve man.

The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.

Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.

What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns?

He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.

Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.

The body is the substance of the stone.

Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.

Content is the meaningful substance of the work.

The world changed somewhat in form during its progress, but never in substance.

I've never used performance-enhancing drugs of any kind, and I never will. I've never met or spoken with Tony Bosch or used any substances provided by him. Anything said to the contrary is a lie.

There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.

But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.

The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts.

And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.

Keep in mind that there are many neurotoxins in the world. Dozens of natural and industrial substances have neurotoxic properties.

I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance, complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend.

Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.

When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?

Every man starts with all there is. Everything is here-the essence and substance of all there is.

No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.

The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.

Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man.

There is universal substance which is divine substance because where else can it be?

Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.

In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance

In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance.