#substance

Once you’ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe. ↗

— Jessica Zafra

#books #fact #substance #truth #witty

This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#angry #debate #democrats #even #even worse

What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me? ↗

— Kojo Annan

#allegations #father #here #many #me

I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance. ↗

— Rima Fakih

#birth #birth control #control #controlled #even

The body is the substance of the stone. ↗

— George Ripley

#stone #substance

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

— Edmund Burke

#justice #laws #only #original #over

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. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#bred #competition #desire #doubt #foremost

People think of me as a mannequin, all show and no substance. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#people #show #substance #think

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. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#becomes #begins #between #death #emotion

This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm. ↗

— Asa Gray

#familiar #forms #living #manifold #matter