Quotes by Substance 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 abusesubstancethinking If you want to talk about distributing substances that are lethal, . . . let's be serious. Tobacco is far ahead of anything else. Alcohol is second. Noam Chomsky alcoholsubstancewant 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 scentoilsubstance 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 moleculestaskssubstance You can't have style if you don't have substance. Ozwald Boateng stylesubstanceifs The golden light of metaphor, which is the intelligence of poetry, was implicit in alchemical study. To change, magically, one substance into another, more valuable one is the ancient function of metaphor, as it was of alchemy. Patricia Hampl goldensubstancelight The language of chemistry simply does not mesh with that of biology. Chemistry is about substances and how they react, whereas biology appeals to concepts such as information and organisation. Informational narratives permeate biology. Paul Davies narrativesubstancedoe Obama is very much an establishment sort of guy. The whole image of him as a transcendent figure was based on style rather than substance. If you actually looked at what he said, not how he said it, he said very establishment things. He's a moderate, cautious, ameliorative guy. He tends to gravitate toward Beltway conventional wisdom. Paul Krugman styleguysubstance Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time. Paul Twitchell substancespaceexpression The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance Peter L. Berger substancereligiousamerica Beginning with brand rather than substance is dangerous. Peter Thiel brandsdangeroussubstance Substance should outweigh perfection. Phil Ramone substanceshouldperfection How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance! Philip Sidney rumorsubstanceblow The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost. Plautus costsubstancetoo-late The poor of the United States and of the world are your brothers and sisters in Christ. You must never be content to leave them just the crumbs from the feast. You must take of your substance, and not just of your abundance, in order to help them. And you must treat them like guests at your family table. Pope John Paul II substancebrotherorder Number was the substance of all things. Pythagoras substancemathnumbers A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that. Rachel Griffiths goldensubstancedoubt Substance of Bhakti is Surrender and Humility. Radhanath Swami surrendersubstancehumility We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of things turns out to have been groundless after all, for we do not love things or even possess them: they pass through our lives as barium passes through the digestive tract, unassimilated, their function merely to flash signals along the way. Ralph Caplan proudsubstanceway Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet. Ray Manzarek substancecreativespirit«1213141516171819202122»
