Substance Quotes at BrainyQuote.com

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

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

A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web.
Monica Baldwin

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

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
Marquis de Sade

And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.
Daniel Libeskind

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.
William Bartram

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.
Mary Oliver

As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.
Ezra Cornell

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.
Nicolas Malebranche

At the request of the special counsel, Mr. Rove will not discuss the substance of his testimony.
Robert Luskin

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.
Geoffrey Beene

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
William Hazlitt

Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.
Wynton Marsalis

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.
Anne Sullivan Macy

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

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
John Henry Newman

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