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The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.
Your past is your shadow. It has form but no substance, except in the places you allow it to touch you. (
I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance.
My hair is pure. It stands for purity because no foreign chemicals or substances has ever touched my hair.
There was always talk that the Horrors didn't have any substance but I think they're proving people wrong.
Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.
I work to raise awareness of the dangers of drinking and driving and substance abuse, primarily with youth.
Movement is the unifying bond between the mind and the body, and sensations are the substance of that bond.
Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same.
To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
If people think of public art as something the public decides, it's impossible to make anything of substance.
Within each and every one of us is a divine power that needs no substance or anything external to know bliss.
Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me
I think the best dramas are as funny as possible and the best comedies have, underneath them, real substance.
Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.
Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.
My mother taught us that ambition is part of femininity and really taught us to have substance but also style.
Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.
I'm drawn to roles that have real substance, that aren't just the victim or the teenage girl or the girlfriend.
Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman - her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
The entire substance of the spleen at an early period is almost entirely composed of nuclei and granular matter.
The poor looking shepherd of the dessert is in substance very rich with all the magical treasures of the desert.
As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.
We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.
A lot of people talk, but they don't say anything. And people listen, and they don't absorb anything of substance.
Therefore, the substance of [Donald] Trump policies never got covered, because it wasn't what interested the media.
Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind
I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind.
No one can deny who you are unless you are, in some way, minimizing the power and the force of your divine substance.
There is not a single health-promoting substance present in grains that you can’t also get from vegetables and fruit.
The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.
The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.
As far as films are concerned, I would take up only those roles which are challenging and have some substance in them.
If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.
No form remains permanently in a substance; a constant change takes place, one form is taken off and another is put on.
Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.
When you're working and making money, that's all good, but there has to be something that provides a substance, I think.
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
God then made the first woman, not directly out of his own substance, but from Adam's rib. Her purpose was to serve man.
In Washington, task forces work like Tylenol: they reduce the symptoms of scandal while leaving the substance untouched.
By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.
I've never been a thin girl. I grew up being - I don't want to say a plus-size girl, but a girl of curves and substance.
Unbuttered toast is a substance half complete, and to be forced to eat it in that state is necessarily to feel deprived.
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
My faith - as well as my Nigerian culture - really gave me the substance and foundation to be who I desire to be in life.