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It's not about the size of your book, It's about the substance in it. — Bernard Kelvin Clive

I do not think I was afraid. There must be substance to breed fear, and I was hollow. — Tanith Lee

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 take opioids to treat chronic pain. Stigmatizing them will harm me. — Sonya Huber

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

Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form. — Yves Klein

Sunrise is starting to feel like a guilt trip. — Kris Kidd

It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind. — Helen Keller

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

The primal substance of our thoughts is an extremely rich gathering of information that's accumulated, exchanged, and continually elaborated. Even — Carlo Rovelli

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

To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow. — Nhat Hanh

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 pursues
Pursuing 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

We had fed the heart on fantasies,
The heart's grown brutal from the fare,
More substance in our enmities
Than in our love — W.B.Yeats

Heat may be generated and destroyed by certain processes, and this shows that heat is not a substance. — James Clerk Maxwell

Akasha is a Sanskit word for "primary substance" which pertains the quality of light in a person's spiritual and physical senses. — Hema Malini

The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man. — Isaac Watts

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

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance. — Freddie Mercury

Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends. — Hippocrates

Door VIII. A Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X. The Substance of the Shadow — Charles Dickens

[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

Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance. — Jim Rohn

Now, evolution is the substance of fossils hoped for, the evidence of links not seen. — Duane T. Gish

You know how I play it, better safe than sorry 'stead of searching for substance at every single party. — Drake

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

It's the glitches and twists, I thought, that make this universe unique and compelling. Without flaws, there would be
no depth, no substance. — A.M. Jenkins

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

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. — Dee Hock

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. — Edith Wharton

Naming, thinks Jacob, even in ridicule, gives what is named substance. — David Mitchell

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

Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow. — Victor Hugo

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

A man of substance should trust very carefully an online networking friend whose shared images are not often palatable to his taste. — Anuj

The reality of life is that we are exposed to a multiplicity of toxic substances. — Al Meyerhoff

The hard core of leadership capabilities strengthens leadership effectiveness and highlights leadership substance. — Pearl Zhu

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

The symbol is greater than visible substance ... Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care. — Freya Stark

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface. — Victor Hugo

In any situation you can think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear, while patience represents substance and strength. — Jim Rohn

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

Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true. — Alexander Pope

Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth. — Karl Marx

Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. — Herman Melville

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