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It's not about the size of your book, It's about the substance in it.
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance.
— James Surowiecki
Addiction does not cause partner abuse, and recovery from addiction does not "cure" partner abuse.
— Lundy Bancroft
A Not So Big House feels more spacious than many of its oversized neighbors because it is space with substance, all of it in use every day.
— Sarah Susanka
I don't know what we did without Velcro in the American theater. It's a miracle substance! People had long intermissions, probably.
— Jefferson Mays
Sunrise is starting to feel like a guilt trip.
— Kris Kidd
As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
— John Dewey
Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Guys who always shined their shoes were usually self-involved asswipes who figure superficiality trumps substance.
— Harlan Coben
The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts.
— Gottfried Leibniz
The only substance properly so called is the soul.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Substance and content over style and hype any day.
— Derwin L. Gray
Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursuesPursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. — William Shakespeare
Playing quarterback ... it's no joke ... The difference here with Johnny Manziel, there's a lot of style and very little substance.
— Boomer Esiason
As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things.
— Richard Chenevix Trench
Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.
— Wayne Thiebaud
'Vogue' celebrates plenty of women of substance.
— Tina Brown
as the Age of Bush gave way to the Era of Obama, little of substance changed. That was the greatest irony of all.
— Andrew J. Bacevich
Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.
— Stanley Schmidt
Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.
— Susan Cheever
Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles.[Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.] — Horace
By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.
— William Shakespeare
Heat may be generated and destroyed by certain processes, and this shows that heat is not a substance.
— James Clerk Maxwell
Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.
— Charles Kennedy
They made data a controlled substance.
— Neal Stephenson
If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.
— Werner Herzog
The air had become heavy, not because it had greater substance, but because there was nothing left to breathe.
— Louise Gluck
If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.
— Malachy McCourt
At the request of the special counsel, Mr. Rove will not discuss the substance of his testimony.
— Robert Luskin
VII. A Knock at the Door VIII. A Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X. The Substance of the Shadow XI. Dusk XII.
— Charles Dickens
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[A vitamin is] a substance you get sick from if you don't eat it.
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.
— Julia Cameron
Now, evolution is the substance of fossils hoped for, the evidence of links not seen.
— Duane T. Gish
This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not.
— Grantland Rice
Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.
— Geoffrey Beene
Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.
— H.L. Mencken
The body is the substance of the stone.
— George Ripley
every substance contains undeveloped resources and potentialities, and can be brought outward and forward into perfection.
— H. Stanley Redgrove
The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.
— Herman Melville
Although she was fragile in appearance, every prohibition lost substance in her presence.
— Elena Ferrante
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
— Edith Wharton
Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
— Abraham Cahan
Within each and every one of us is a divine power that needs no substance or anything external to know bliss.
— Wayne Dyer
The substance of man cannot be measured by Gross National Product.
— E.F. Schumacher
No! Such as they will not destroy marriage - they will save it! They restore the vital substance while we preserve the empty shell.
— Jesse Lynch Williams
Our journey is about faith. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Not the proving of such things.
— James Rollins
It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.
— Alexander McQueen
As the religious authorities often say, the institution is human, while the substance of the religion is transcendent.
— Thomas Moore
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
— Edmund Burke
By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.
— William Stanley Jevons
Content is the meaningful substance of the work.
— Gerald Brommer
Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.
— William Shakespeare
The thing they're trying to stop is 30-million people getting health insurance. That's the substance.
— Chris Hayes
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.
— Ambrose Bierce
Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.
— Chow Yun-Fat
I am clouded and bruised with the print of minds and faces and things so subtle that they have smell, colour, texture, substance, but no name.
— Virginia Woolf
Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species. To drink beer is to be human.
— Alan D. Eames
The best lies are always flavoured with the truth but if the substance is rotten, it will stink no matter how much you try to disguise it.
— M.R.C. Kasasian
Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.
— Thomas Aquinas
In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.
— Warren Buffett
In America, where surface has always passed for substance, people always believe guys like Frank Dunning.
— Stephen King
Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same.
— Swami Vivekananda
You can't have style if you don't have substance.
— Ozwald Boateng
God then made the first woman, not directly out of his own substance, but from Adam's rib. Her purpose was to serve man.
— Frederick Lenz
The FDA calls certain substances "controlled." But there are no "controlled substances," there are only controlled citizens.
— Thomas Szasz
I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.
— Ted Cruz
The Constitution deals with substance, not shadows.
— Stephen Johnson Field
The very substance of ambition is merely the shadow of a dream.
— William Shakespeare
In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance
— James Madison
I want to entertain people, but with some substance.
— Irrfan Khan