Substance Quotes - Page 3

• But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Silence, Solitude

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Sign of Jonas”, p.373, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.

  Charles Stanley

  Belief, Behavior

  Charles F. Stanley (2003). “Discover Your Destiny”, p.221, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination.

  Albert Camus

  War, Men, Imagination

  Albert Camus (1962). “The Plague”

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• Theory and fact are equally strong and utterly interdependent; one has no meaning without the other. We need theory to organize and interpret facts, even to know what we can or might observe. And we need facts to validate theories and give them substance.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Strong, Science, Giving

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms”, p.155, Harvard University Press

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• Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.

  Caroline Knapp

  Self, Culture, Labels

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• The most callous, stupid things were done just because regulations required them...It was not until 1983, for example, that U.S. federal agencies stated that substances known to be caustic irritants such as lye, ammonia, and oven cleaners, did not need to be tested on the eyes of conscious rabbits.

  Peter Singer

  Stupid, Eye, Animal

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• There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter.

  Dean Kamen

  Real, Trying, World

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• The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was disposed of by the formal view that a physical, not a chemical, process was involved.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Views, Water, Facts

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• 'I am that I am,' said the Eternal. The Eternal - it is the race. One in substance - undifferentiated. One in time - stable and eternal.

  Kadmi Cohen

  Race, Said, Jew

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• We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide ion than that furnished by pure water. This is a very one sided definition.

  Gilbert N. Lewis

  Ions, Giving, Water

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• 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 N. Lewis

  Giving Up, Ions, Would Be

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• 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 N. Lewis

  Groups, Molecules, Atoms

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• Oh God, it's such a big world right now for artists. There are as many possibilities as you can have time for, getting your music out there with the internet, and Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, and everything that you have, there is a way to spread the word. To me, the first thing you have to have is substance and content and real depth.

  Amy Ray

  Real, Artist, Firsts

  "Lung Of Love : A Conversation With Amy Ray". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.

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• It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.

  Mark Rydell

  Independent, Directors, Today

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• I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.

  Octavia Spencer

  Thinking, Abuse, Stones

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

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• It's 103 comedians, or however many it is, and how would everyone tell it. It's enough people of substance that it makes you think of the people who aren't there that are alive.

  Bob Saget

  Thinking, People, Make You Think

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

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• Some people just chase the glittery stuff and they have no substance to their life whatsoever. Actually all they really want is power. But they pretend they're interested in enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Balance

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• The universe is a giant perceptual matrix. It perceives itself through its substance

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Giants, Awareness

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• Your mind is your life. It's your essence and your substance. It's the part of you that has always been and will always be. Its formations change constantly, which is what makes you always new.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Essence, Mind

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• I tried to do the commercial thing. But I don't want to keep shoving Twinkies down everyone's throat. People are hungry for something of more substance.

  Lili Taylor

  People, Want, Hungry

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• I will dance a little. I will move with the wind. I will give my body to my love and celebrate that we have substance beyond the idea of ourselves. We can move. We can touch. This is my physical exclamation point. This is how I can awaken my mind to the possibilities in the day.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Giving Up, Moving, Love Life

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.60, Conari Press

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• I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

  Ben Mendelsohn

  Careers, Ideas, Degrees

  "Ben Mendelsohn: from Erinsborough to Hollywood via Gotham" by Alex Godfrey, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2013.

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• I think I enjoy playing human beings no matter the substance of their character.

  Ezra Miller

  Character, Thinking, Matter

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