Substance Quotes - Page 4

• Playing quarterback ... it's no joke ... The difference here with Johnny Manziel, there's a lot of style and very little substance.

  Boomer Esiason

  Differences, Style, Littles

  "Showtime’s ‘Inside The NFL,’ Choice Quotes and Schedule" by April Neale, www.monstersandcritics.com. December 17, 2014.

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• People think of me as a mannequin. All show and no substance.

  Brooke Shields

  Thinking, People, Think Of Me

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: ‘Every living substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe’

  Paul Auster

  Memories, Men, Mirrors

  Paul Auster (2007). “The Invention of Solitude”, p.148, Penguin

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• The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.

  Giordano Bruno

  Soul, Body, Way

  Giordano Bruno, Robert de Lucca, Richard J. Blackwell (1998). “Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic”, p.113, Cambridge University Press

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• To create and to annihilate material substance, cause it to aggregate in forms according to his desire, would be the supreme manifestation of the power of Man's mind, his most complete triumph over the physical world.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Mind, Desire

  "Man's Greatest Achievement". "The New York American" Journal, July 6, 1930.

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• Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any length of time without annihilating the human and natural substance of society; it would have physically destroyed man and transformed his surroundings into a wilderness.

  Karl Polanyi

  Men, Self, Ideas

  Karl Polanyi (1957). “The Great Transformation”, Beacon Pr

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• I can't think of anybody...who knows the sum and substance of what I know and feel and cry about in my secret self all the time when I don't feel strong, the sorrows of time and personality, and can therefore on all levels make it all the way with me

  Jack Kerouac

  Strong, Thinking, Self

  Jack Kerouac (1972). “Visions of Cody”, London : André Deutsch

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• Compare mathematics and the political sciences - it's quite striking. In mathematics, in physics, people are concerned with what you say, not with your certification. But in order to speak about social reality, you must have the proper credentials, particularly if you depart from the accepted framework of thinking. Generally speaking, it seems fair to say that the richer the intellectual substance of a field, the less there is a concern for credentials, and the greater is the concern for content.

  Noam Chomsky

  Reality, Thinking, Order

  Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, The New Press

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• Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don't know. That's got to be tough.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Art, Skating, Tough

  "Q&A WITH Wayne Gretzky : He's on the Ice, Feeling Fit Again : Hockey: His back is sound and the Kings are getting better. And people who say he's the Average One motivate him to continued greatness". Interview with Steve Springer, articles.latimes.com. September 13, 1990.

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• I was always the type of person, and still am the type of person, that I cannot be creative and use substances. So from a very early age I knew that if I wanted to make music, successfully, in any capacity, I was going to have to get sober.

  Macklemore

  Creative, Age, Use

  "Does Macklemore Really Thrift Shop?". "Tell Me More" with Celeste Headlee, www.npr.org. July 4, 2013.

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• FYI: when you see a grammar nazi foaming at the mouth, you are watching someone with absolutely nothing of substance to say.

  Nils Parker

  Mouths, Nazi, Grammar

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• During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth - is set by their structure, on scales far smaller even than a microscope can see. Everything on Earth is made of atoms, which are, especially in living things, combined together in intricate molecular assemblages.

  Martin Rees

  Essence, Together, Atoms

  "We're the 'waste' from distant stars" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2008.

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• Of all the states of emotion I've ever been in, music takes me to the strongest state of emotion the quickest, of any other sort of state of mind I've ever been in or been put in by any substance or circumstance, music brings me to an emotional state of being faster than anything I've ever known

  Ben Harper

  Emotional, Mind, States

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• It's been so long since I've really truly felt what it's like to live life without substances to help. Massive struggle that's natural to one's health, but with addiction in my blood I play the cards I was dealt.

  Macklemore

  Struggle, Live Life, Blood

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• The substance of every true and stable political organism is something resembling an Order, a Männerbünd in charge of the principle of the imperium, comprising men who see loyalty as the basis of their honor.

  Julius Evola

  Loyalty, Men, Order

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• We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.

  Diane Wakoski

  Source, Concerned

  Diane Wakoski (1973). “Smudging”

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• Magic comprises the most profound contemplation of the most secret things, their nature, power, quality, substance, and virtues, as well as the knowledge of their whole nature.

  Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

  Profound, Magic, Secret

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• Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.

  Otto Wallach

  Oil, Scent, Mixtures

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• As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.

  Otto Wallach

  Molecules, Tasks, Synthesis

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• You thought that you were the permanent part of your own experience, the net that held it all together - until you discovered that there were many selves, dissolving into one another so quickly over time that the buildings and the trees and even the pavement turned out to have more substance than you did.

  Nell Freudenberger

  Self, Tree, Together

  Nell Freudenberger (2012). “The Newlyweds”, p.207, Vintage

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• I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight.

  Alberto Tomba

  Mother, Doctors, Blood

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• And you know what people immediately start looking for, five minutes after they arrive someplace new? You know what's on their minds? I'll tell you: How are they gonna get laid, and where are they gonna find some mind-altering substances.

  Michel Faber

  People, Mind, Minutes

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• Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

  Susan Cheever

  Addiction, Mood, Alterations

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• In trusting, we let ourselves go. We know that all kinds of unexpected events may come our way. Our tension eases, our mind and our hearts open spontaneously to be possibilities. It is an ever new state of mind, in the present moment, because we have detached from all we know. But it is also a feeling as old as can be, because, before all betrayals and all disappointments, there was a time in which trusting another was the very substance of our life.

  Piero Ferrucci

  Disappointment, Betrayal, Heart

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• The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Winter, Dark

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.74, Xist Publishing

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