Substance Quotes

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

Control, Though, Birth

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.
Mary Richards

Love, Work, Play

Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time.
Paul Twitchell

Time, Nothing, Else

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
Bernard de Mandeville

Women, May, Big

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

Beauty, Far, Since

Man is a substance clad in shadows.
John Sterling

Don't let form become more important than the substance of your heart and mind. Don't let commerce determine what you do exclusively.
Avery Brooks

Mind, Heart, Important

You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth.
Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.
Peter Latham

Different, Same, Medicine

The body is the substance of the stone.
George Ripley

What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?
Kojo Annan

Father, Here, Against

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

Special, Request, Counsel

Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal.
Gilbert Newton Lewis

Before, Used, Since

We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to complete the stable group of another atom, and that an acid is one which can employ a lone pair from another molecule in completing the stable group of one of its own atoms.
Gilbert Newton Lewis

May, Another, Used

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

Lost, Hair, White

In the issue war in Iraq, it was very clear to me that the policies that were being espoused by neoconservatives were totally devoid of substance - but they marketed it wonderfully.
Joseph C. Wilson

War, Clear, Iraq

The spin overwhelms the substance. That's very clearly what happened.
Joseph C. Wilson

Happened, Clearly, Spin

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.
John S. Tanner

War, Friends, Before

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

Size, Web, Spider

Those entrusted with arms... should be persons of some substance and stake in the country.
William Windham

Country, Arms, Persons

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
Sam Brown

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