#substance

As I've gotten older, I've become attracted to things that have substance. ↗

— Seann William Scott

#become #gotten #i #older #substance

This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#changes #differentiation #eminently #exists #god

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. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#consider #education #england #female #life

Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

#animal #bodies #chemistry #govern #inorganic

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#defect #evil #excess #only #own

I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table. ↗

— Mark Oliphant

#gunpowder #hair #i #kitchen #kitchen table

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#any #captivated #child #material #me

The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was disposed of by the formal view that a physical, not a chemical, process was involved. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#change #chemical #composition #disposed #fact

Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#also #architect #assign #fails #forms

My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it. ↗

— Natasha Henstridge

#aim #always #beauty #been #films