Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along but I am the river it is a tiger that devours me but I am the tiger it is a fire that consumes me but I am the fire.

Football basketball and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.

Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.

We are pre-disposed for fantasy there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.

All human laws are properly speaking only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Yes you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.

Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

All all is theft all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and without doubt the most agreeable one.

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.

Only the other world has substance and reality only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

I'm in awe of the universe but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals though even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative whether Buddhist or Catholic.

I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor interest curiosity and really being smart.

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality reality and substance.

Let's hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won't buy.

Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees you have such a sense of the passage of time of history. It's like you're touching the essence the very substance of life.

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.

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

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

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.

Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick concentrated saliva. Why? The answer obviously is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds even the granivorous tribes.

It's very difficult to break into motion pictures but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy substance abuse and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.

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.

As I live and am a man this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions the emotions - it becomes sterile silly and actually without substance.