Substance Quotes

Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.

Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war.

This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy.

As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.