Quotes of: Substance Keyword

When you're working and making money, that's all good, but there has to be something that provides a substance, I think.

Mekhi Phifer

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

Benny Goodman

To be able to stand out and be respected by many, you have to be positively unique and full of substance.

Edmond Mbiaka

Although she was fragile in appearance, every prohibition lost substance in her presence.

Elena Ferrante

Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.

John Derbyshire

Synthesis is the process of making a natural product, or some other substance, artificially, in the lab, one step at a time, from extremely simple building blocks.

Gregory Petsko

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

Warren Buffett

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Diplomats and politicians, blowing with the wind. No substance, no beliefs, no real friendships.

Secrets of the Italian Gardener

Our response to temptation reveals the substance of our faith.

Thirst No More: A One-Year Devotional Journey

Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.

Tomcat In Love

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

Mark Oliphant

My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am.

Peter Fonda

I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance.

Rima Fakih

Life of any real value or substance is not formed during good times merely enjoyed.

John Paul Warren

It seems, by today's standards, that it's better to seek approval than to tell the truth. It's better to utter sweet nothings than to boldly say something of substance.

Monica Johnson

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

In bitter almond oil, like in a great number of other substances that previously had been counted among the 'aromatic compounds' on behalf of their strong smell, a derivative of benzene is present. The special properties of benzene and its derivative...

Otto Wallach

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

The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

Gottfried Leibniz

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.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca