#substance

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. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

#belly #big #concealing #consequences #exposed

Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#style #substance #succeed

I have never taken any substance to enhance my performance. ↗

— Kelli White

#enhance #i #never #performance #substance

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#concepts #does #honour #into #our

Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three. ↗

— Asa Gray

#ago #being #carbon #chemical #composed

A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#ill #makes #substance #you

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. ↗

— Joseph C. Wilson

#clear #devoid #iraq #issue #marketed

The spin overwhelms the substance. That's very clearly what happened. ↗

— Joseph C. Wilson

#happened #overwhelms #spin #substance #very

Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war. ↗

— John S. Tanner

#among #atlantic #before #both #both sides

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 substantive evolution. ↗

— Grigoris Deoudis

#detached #evolution #living #materialistic #nature