Top 1200 Form And Substance Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form.

You can see areas where maybe you got a bit lazy, perhaps, or you see when you were really on form. I think an actor is very like a sportsman in that respect. You have periods where you're in terrific form.

Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.

For me, alcohol has this endless fascination that there's this substance that can enhance life so beautifully and destroy it so completely.

What I'd look for are roles in which the heroine's character has substance rather than just glamour.

God turns on its head one form of evil - suffering - in order to defeat another form of evil - that is, our transgressions. It happened at the cross, and it occurs in the lives of followers of Christ every day.

Just because something is melodic or catchy doesn't mean that it doesn't have depth and substance and progressive sensibilities.

The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance.

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

We should cultivate the serenity, because in the substance of sincerity germinate the most beautiful flowers of the Spirit.

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.

Unbuttered toast is a substance half complete, and to be forced to eat it in that state is necessarily to feel deprived.

Playing quarterback ... it's no joke ... The difference here with Johnny Manziel, there's a lot of style and very little substance.

One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.

No one can deny who you are unless you are, in some way, minimizing the power and the force of your divine substance.

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

A catalyst is a substance which alters the velocity of a chemical reaction without appearing in the final products.

Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament.

I want to play roles of substance, where I have something to contribute, where I can help push forward a thought.

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form" states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness.

The dance in which the men form one row, the women another, and dance with and opposite each other in a form of love play, is widely diffused and may be confidentally assigned to a Protoneolithic culture level.

The poor looking shepherd of the dessert is in substance very rich with all the magical treasures of the desert.

Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.

There is not a single health-promoting substance present in grains that you can’t also get from vegetables and fruit.

Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

Writing wasn't just a form of expression. It was a form of pathology by embarking on spoken word over and over and over again and reciting my poems.

When it's between the covers of a book, content is perceived to have literary substance - or more so that it might otherwise.

Self, service, substance is the Divine order and nothing counts until we give ourselves.

Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me its a form of sacrament.

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me

Puppets are pure form then ideas for performance come out of that. It's always the form and the visuals and that's why I like to make puppets in a gallery or museum. They're not often in those contexts.

To be famous these days with no grounding and no substance is not especially difficult. I urge you instead to seek to be relevant, to be agile and educated.

For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.

Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the form ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it.

With fame comes the responsibility of what you say. If the country is watching you, there ought to be substance, something worthwhile to speak about.

The soul is the form of the body, but not as the shape of a statue is formatio et terminatio materiae, for form does not exist apart from material. There is no whiteness without a white object. But the soul is not a form in this simple sense, and in particular, is not the shape of the material it informs. Therefore, the shape of a being does not affect the being's soul, for then something lower would inform something higher, which is impossible.

The entire substance of the spleen at an early period is almost entirely composed of nuclei and granular matter.

At the factory, I deal with ex-cons, substance abusers, and sexual harassers. And I'm not just talking about my mom.

The Left puts their stock in substance and lives on identity and figureheads. It will be the end of the Right to do the same.

My faith - as well as my Nigerian culture - really gave me the substance and foundation to be who I desire to be in life.

In every remodelling of the present, the existing condition of things must be supplanted by a new one. Now every variety of circumstances in which men find themselves, every object which surrounds them, communicates a definite form and impress to their internal nature. This form is not such that it can change and adapt itself to any other a man may choose to receive; and the end is foiled, while the power is destroyed, when we attempt to impose upon that which is already stamped in the soul a form which disagrees with it.

I have strong views against substance usage and abuse. It's bad for kidney and central neuro system.

imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.

I work to raise awareness of the dangers of drinking and driving and substance abuse, primarily with youth.

Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.

The unseen energy that was once in Shakespeare or Picasso or Galileo or any human form, is also available to all of us. That is because the spirit energy does not die, it simply changes form.

Hot air expands, and seriously pompous attitude is the inflation of choice by those lacking substance.

[Race] had no substance, like a shadowy shape that terrifies in the dark but vanishes by the light of day.

Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.

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

The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance

You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.

I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.

Therefore, the substance of [Donald] Trump policies never got covered, because it wasn't what interested the media.

We all think we have time, you know. It's this miracle substance and there seems to be so much of it, and then all of a sudden, it's gone.

I am a woman of substance and there's a lot inside me. I have had my own struggles and my journey.

Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

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

I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.