Substance Quotes - page 5

No substance in nature, as far as yet known, has, when it reaches the brain, such power to induce mental and moral changes of a disastrous character as alcohol. Its transforming power is marvelous, and often appalling. It seems to open a way of entrance into the soul for all classes of foolish, insane or malignant spirits, who, so long as it remains in contact with the brain, are able to hold possession. (Timothy Shay Arthur)
We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt
Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow, whereas intelligence is the substance. -Doc. View quote
Bryce Courtenay
Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy. View quote
Anne Sullivan Macy
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. View quote
Aries Spears
This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm. View quote
Asa Gray
I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas. View quote
Ben Mendelsohn
Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance. View quote
Benny Goodman
There are so many things I'd like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of style over substance to their reluctance to hire me for big budget blockbusters, but the thing I would love most would be if they understood people don't have to be Hollywood beautiful to be sexy or interesting. View quote
Colin Mochrie
Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. View quote
Dee Hock
The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income. (Dee Hock)
Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith. View quote
Duane Chapman
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. View quote
Ella Maillart
Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance. View quote
Ethan Zuckerman
Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal. View quote
Gilbert N. Lewis
We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide ion than that furnished by pure water. This is a very one sided definition. View quote
Gilbert N. Lewis
Even a song on the radio that completely lacks substance is there for a reason. Sometimes, people need a break from cold reality; the song that you really don't have to put that much thought power into can be just as entertaining as something that might take you on a three- or four-minute cruise through the depth of reality. View quote
Jamey Johnson
Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form. View quote
Jessica Savitch
Man is a substance clad in shadows. View quote
John Sterling
What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me? View quote
Kojo Annan
Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance. (Max Bill)
Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time. View quote
Paul Twitchell
A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that. View quote
Rachel Griffiths
I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance. View quote
Rima Fakih
In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if the President is willing to back up his rhetoric with substance. View quote
Ron Kind