Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
The music is the emotional substance of the show; the book just sets it up. Nobody goes to a musical to hear the book. That’s the way it works.
There are certain people who prize celebrity over substance. That makes the media world go round. The media needs those people to exist.
For me, alcohol has this endless fascination that there’s this substance that can enhance life so beautifully and destroy it so completely.
The laws of nature tell us there’s a finite amount of any substance on the face of the earth, and at some point, that’s going to run out. And if we’re smart and we have some grace and we have some willingness about our destiny, then we will take ourselves into the renewable world.
Yes, you need substance in politics – but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.
I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.
You cannot denude the presidency of the substance and power of its office. It can’t be done.
I’m tired of being considered vapid for liking pop music or caring about fashion as if these things inherently lack substance or as if the things I enjoy somehow make me a lesser person.
With Biggie, I thought his flow and his swag was better than Tupac’s, but I thought Tupac’s passion and ability to relate to the average person was better than Biggie, and I thought Nas was kind of like both, with a lot substance going but a lot of swag.
I realized that every sermon I preached should be designed not to ‘teach’ or ‘convert’ people, but rather to encourage them, to give them a lift. I decided to adopt the spirit, style, strategy and substance of a ‘therapist’ in the pulpit.
I want to play roles of substance, where I have something to contribute, where I can help push forward a thought.
In the South, we assume that one will have substance, be polite, be kind, be nice, but that person also needs to present himself/herself to the world with an individual unique well-developed style that identifies them as special.
I think, at the end of the day, if voters don’t see the substance and the merit of the policies you’re advocating, it won’t matter what you do on social media.
Fears that formaldehyde from vaccines may cause cancer are similar to fears of mercury and aluminum, in that they coalesce around miniscule amounts of the substance in question, amounts considerably smaller than amounts from other common sources of exposure to the same substance.
Jackie O was so capable in so many ways. Hillary tried to redefine the role when she got into public policy, and Michelle Obama is able to move smoothly between form and function, style and substance.
In the issue war in Iraq, it was very clear to me that the policies that were being espoused by neoconservatives were totally devoid of substance – but they marketed it wonderfully.
People into hard sciences, neurophysiology, often ignore a core philosophical question: ‘What is the relationship between our unique, inner experience of conscious awareness and material substance?’ The answer is: We don’t know, and some people are so terrified to say, ‘I don’t know.’
Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance, form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form.
Under the snowcapped mountains of Fiordland National Park, freshwater streams empty into the saltwater fiords, creating a unique ecosystem. This is a heavily wooded park, so the water in the streams is stained with tannin, a substance found in plants that makes clean water seem dirty, though it isn’t.
I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
Listen – we party, we have fun, we live life to the fullest. But we’re also professional, we also wake up every day and stay on time for our meetings and we also have a structure and a certain structure and a certain substance behind the brand. It’s not just luck.
Everybody talking about being afraid of being boring is boring. You have to go for the real substance of life after awhile.
Man is a substance clad in shadows.
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.
Let’s give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.
I don’t knock material rappers, but let me hear it in a different way. How many songs do I have to hear about rims on a car? It’s ridiculous. There’s no substance. It’s a hollow shell.
The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
I’m today’s woman, candid and a woman of substance.
‘Vogue’ celebrates plenty of women of substance.
I’m not about sound bites. I’m about substance.
Substance over style is the rule for all resumes. Any special effects will dilute the gravitas and stature of the impression. You want people to concentrate on your accomplishments and your successes, not the curlicues of a font or unusual shades or contrast of colors.
I won’t take parts where the female character has no substance.
In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance.
Bronze makes the most complex waveforms of any substance known to man. It creates these vibrations that will just crack your skull.
Substance abuse is a disease which doesn’t go away overnight. I’m working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I’m prepared to face the consequences.
I try to make my clothing line an entry point for discovering the substance of the rest of my work.
Sometimes I watch myself on ‘The Hills’ and I’m like, ‘Whitney, could you, like, maybe pretend to be more interested, or say something of some substance instead of just giving looks?’
I’m not in a ‘starry’ position to be able to pick and choose, but I am interested in telling stories of substance with great directors – that’s my only guiding principle.
The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who’s brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
Although Senate Bill 1556 has received attention for its perceived focus, my job is to look at the actual substance of the legislation.
