Substance Quotes - Page 27

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

  William Bartram

  Animal, Bird, Firsts

  William Bartram (2012). “Travels of William Bartram”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.

  Kim Novak

  Moving, Essence, Tree

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• Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

  Christian Friedrich Hebbel

  Design, World, Reason

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• Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Philosophy, Simple, Way

  Rene Descartes, Benedict de Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz (2011). “The Rationalists: Descartes: Discourse on Method & Meditations; Spinoza: Ethics; Leibniz: Monadolo gy & Discourse on Metaphysics”, p.458, Anchor

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• It was the sort of house that glows with substance and savoir vivre in those advertisements for the best Scotch. It had wonderful bones.

  Robert A. Metzger

  Scotch, House, Advertising

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• Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Names, Form, Plus

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3705, Manonmani Publishers

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• The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms.

  Walther Bothe

  Two, Dating, Four

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• Love itself is the most elitist of passions. It acquires its stereoscopic substance and perspective only in the context of culture, for it takes up more place in the mind than it does in bed. Outside of that setting it falls flat into one-dimensional fiction.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Love, Fall, Passion

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• When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Powerful, Men, Honorable Man

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• 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

  Country, Religious, Party

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• Unintended Consequences is full of substance, it is one of the must-read books of the year, and once I finish it I will be giving it a second read through right away.

  Tyler Cowen

  Book, Years, Giving

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• The substance of all realities is in this religion of Jesus Christ; but it can be real only to those who will do His will.

  Washington Gladden

  Jesus, Real, Christ

  Washington Gladden (1876). “Being a Christian: what it Means and how to Begin”

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• I truly believe that a beautiful woman is a beautiful woman, but a beautiful woman with a brain is an absolutely lethal combination. Women of integrity, depth, sensuality and strength have always been my source of inspiration, the reason for what I do and how I got to where I am today. They are all my muse. If my quest, in what I do - to make women look and feel beautiful - reflects even a tiny fraction of my deep-rooted respect for them, and succeeds in celebrating these lives of strength and substance, then I will consider it a job well done.

  Prabal Gurung

  Beautiful, Jobs, Integrity

  "On Women, Power and Fashion" by Prabal Gurung, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2013.

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• Everything one sees is merely a projection of what one does not see, its true nature and substance.

  Fernando Sabino

  Doe, Projection, True Nature

  Fernando Tavares Sabino (1967). “A time to meet”, Harvill Press

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• You feel you are hedged in; you dream of escape; but beware of mirages. Do not run or fly away in order to get free: rather dig in the narrow place which has been given you; you will find God there and everything. God does not float on your horizon, he sleeps in your substance. Vanity runs, love digs. If you fly away from yourself, your prison will run with you and will close in because of the wind of your flight; if you go deep down into yourself it will disappear in paradise.

  Gustave Thibon

  Running, Dream, Sleep

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• The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.

  Norman O. Brown

  Body, Self Destruction, Creation

  Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of things turns out to have been groundless after all, for we do not love things or even possess them: they pass through our lives as barium passes through the digestive tract, unassimilated, their function merely to flash signals along the way.

  Ralph Caplan

  Proud, Way, Puritan

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• As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

  John Dewey

  Long, Shadow, Bigs

  John Dewey (1985). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1931-1932”, p.163, SIU Press

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• I want to try not to repeat myself. But then I seem to do it continuously in my films. It's not something I make any effort to do. I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience. I feel I get criticized for style over substance, and for details that get in the way of the characters. But every decision I make is how to bring those characters forward.

  Wes Anderson

  Character, Interesting, Effort

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Designs are a revelation to me. It's like
  taking something that is not alive
  and giving it form, shape, substance,
  and life.

  Geoffrey Beene

  Giving, Design, Alive

  Geoffrey Beene, Franz Kafka, Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.) (1994). “Geoffrey Beene unbound: interview”

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• The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.

  John Knox

  Foundation, Weight, Matter

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• I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Done, Records, Pleasure

  Rudyard Kipling (1989). “Complete verse”, Anchor Books

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• I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left

  Julian Clary

  Gay, Would Be, Pretending

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• Therefore, criticism has to direct itself against itself, and against the mysterious Substance in which it has up to now hid itself. In this way criticism must resolve things such that the development of this Substance drives itself forward to the Universality and Certainty of the Idea of its actual existence, the Eternal Self-consciousness.

  Bruno Bauer

  Self, Ideas, Criticism

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• The power is that which generated and maintains the universe... the life-force, the stuff of creation. It is the very substance of existence itself.

  Scott Cunningham

  Stuff, Creation, Force

  Scott Cunningham (2012). “Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs”, p.11, Llewellyn Worldwide

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