Top Substance Quotes

Certainly we can say that the pace of modern life, increased and supported by our technology in general and our personal electronics in particular, has resulted in a short attention span and an addict...

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

Substance Definition

(n.) That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real, in distinction from that which is apparent; the abiding part of any existence, in distinction from any accident; that which constitutes anything what it is; real or existing essence.

(n.) The most important element in any existence; the characteristic and essential components of anything; the main part; essential import; purport.

(n.) Body; matter; material of which a thing is made; hence, substantiality; solidity; firmness; as, the substance of which a garment is made; some textile fabrics have little substance.

(n.) Material possessions; estate; property; resources.

(n.) Same as Hypostasis, 2.

(v. t.) To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich.

As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

Dear my strong girls, you will all go through that phase of life making a mistake of helping a toxic girl whose friendship with you turns into her self-interest. This kind of girls is a real burden to...

You are Timeless Being and Awareness...You are not touched by any of this.

Timeless principles never age, and truth is as young as the day it was spoken into existence.

Prosperity cannot be experienced by living detached from Nature. Everything else is only a gradation of materialistic, earthly ambitions. We came from the stars and there lies the path to our substant...

depth and substance.the two most exquisite qualities. be it in a poemor a person.

Your words may be heard but your attitude will be felt. Your attitude reveals your character so never try to deceive anyone with mere words. Word/Talk is cheap but character is key. It costs nothing t...

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.

No drug or drink can match the high/kick that a Sale gives you! Though the feeling can never be expressed in words but I feel like I am the king and on top of this world!

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Substance is like tree and smartness its shadow. The smartness is what we think it is and the substance is the real thing!

Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect, they are permanent.

When ever you allow your self to be non judgmental mostly to your self, and others, and with an open mind to the things and people who surround you - you have triumphed to a higher self of substance....

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.

In order that the concept of substance could originate--which is indispensable for logic although in the strictest sense nothing real corresponds to it--it was likewise necessary that for a long time...

The whole environmental policy in the Netherlands has no substance any more.

And now we come to the Heart of our Designe: the art of Shaddowes you must know well, Walter, and you must be instructed how to Cast them with due Care. It is only the Darknesse that can give trew For...

Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever r...