Substance Quotes

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance.

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

The body is the substance of the stone.

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.

Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before.

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.

My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth.

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.

Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.

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.

A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that.

Those entrusted with arms... should be persons of some substance and stake in the country.

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

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

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.

I have never taken any substance to enhance my performance.

In the issue war in Iraq, it was very clear to me that the policies that were being espoused by neoconservatives were totally devoid of substance - but they marketed it wonderfully.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

It's 103 comedians, or however many it is, and how would everyone tell it. It's enough people of substance that it makes you think of the people who aren't there that are alive.

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.

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.