Substance Quotes - Page 18

• Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them substance, given them life. And so we readers walk, and dream, and imagine, in the city where imagination found its great home.

  Anna Quindlen

  Dream, Home, Doors

  Anna Quindlen (2006). “Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City”, p.160, National Geographic Books

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• The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?

  Nhat Hanh

  Care, Way, Moments

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• Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress.

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Roots, Shadow

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

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• You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!

  Carrie Fisher

  Weekend, Vegas, Upset Stomach

  Carrie Fisher (2012). “Wishful Drinking”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• ...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

  David Foster Wallace

  Thinking, People, Infinite Jest

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.146, Hachette UK

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• I love you," he writes again and again. "I can't bear to live without you. I'm counting the minutes until I see you." The words he uses are the idioms of popular songs and poems in the newspaper. And mine to him are no less cliched. I puzzle over the onionskin, trying to spill my heart onto the page. But I can only come up with the same words, in the same order, and hope the depth of feeling beneath them gives them weight and substance. I love you. I miss you. Be careful. Be safe.

  Christina Baker Kline

  Song, Love You, Writing

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• Its a fact of being in love that we often pay no attention whatsoever to the substance of what a lover says, while being intoxicated to ecstasy by the way it's said. I was in love with her eyes, but I didn't read them. I loved her voice, but I didn't really hear the fear & the anguish in it.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Eye, Being In Love, Voice

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.452, St. Martin's Press

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• The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. The trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls, and every bird song, wind song, and tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own, and sings our love.

  John Muir

  Song, Flower, Heart

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.92, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• All substances the cunning chemist Time
  Melts down into that liquor of my life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Liquor, Cunning

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.160, The Floating Press

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• Presently he rose and approached the case before which she stood. Its glass shelves were crowded with small broken objects —hardly recognisable domestic utensils, ornaments and personal trifles — made of glass, of clay, of discoloured bronze and other time-blurred substances.
  'It seems cruel,' she said, 'that after a while nothing matters... any more than these little things, that used to be necessary and important to forgotten people, and now have to be guessed at under a magnifying glass and labeled: "Use unknown".'

  Edith Wharton

  Time, Glasses, People

  "The Age of Innocence".

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• Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Cooking, Hens

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.47, University of Georgia Press

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• Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and meaning for our children.

  J. William Fulbright

  Children, Future, Noble

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• When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!

  John Ruskin

  Father, Future, Men

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.188, Courier Corporation

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• Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selflessness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?

  Robert Penn Warren

  Happiness, Self, Break Out

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• The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

  Mark Twain

  Soul, Patriotism, Moral

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.350, Courier Corporation

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• It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.

  Bernhard Haring

  Peace, Self Worth, Feelings

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• Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos; the materials must in the first place be afforded; it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Writing, Dark, Creating

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.10

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• In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.

  John Lyly

  Anger, Shadow, Arguing

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly: Selected Prose and Dramatic Work”, p.20, Psychology Press

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• We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of the earth. But if they are large enough to vex and endanger our welfare, they are large enough to touch His heart of love. For love does not measure by a merchant's scales, not with a surveyor's chain. It hath a delicacy... unknown in any handling of material substance.

  R. A. Torrey

  Fear, Heart, Circles

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• 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.

  Giordano Bruno

  Spiritual, Fountain, All Things

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• The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which men shall fly along distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration to be.

  Simon Newcomb

  Distance, Future, Airplane

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• Women have come a long way over the past 20 years, but in substance abuse and addiction, women have come the wrong way.

  Joseph A. Califano, Jr.

  Past, Years, Long

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• The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!

  Winston Churchill

  Real, Loss, Gentleman

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• We operate here under directives which emanate from the White House... The substance of the directives under which we operate is that we shall use our grant making power to alter life in the United States such that we can comfortably be merged with the Soviet Union.

  Horace Rowan Gaither

  White, Government, House

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• Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go.

  Marianne Williamson

  Happiness, Sadness, Trying

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jan 07, 2010

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