Top 1200 Form And Substance Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.

Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters.

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

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.

No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign.

Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance.

Everything one sees is merely a projection of what one does not see, its true nature and substance.

If you cannot allow people to do their jobs ... nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.

So by giving people a tool that they can share and benefit from, it's a form of media that isn't controlled by Rupert Murdoch or the guys at Viacom. It is a form of media that is earned every single time it spreads.

If form is mechanically applied, it may indeed result in work that is conventional, if not pedantic or stupid. But form used well can become the very vehicle of freedom, of discovering the creative surprises that liberate mind-at-play.

How lavish is Nature building, pulling down, creating, destroying, chasing every material particle from form to form, ever changing, ever beautiful.

I don't even drink coffee. I try to avoid becoming reliant on any substance.

The batting coach does his job. He tells them the basic faults and helps them improve their technique. But if the batsman is in form then he has to carry that form.

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.

When you are born into a body that takes the image of another, you ask yourself a question much like the famous 'chicken and egg' conundrum. Do you take the form of he, or does he take the form of you?

Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.

The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.

It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form. That is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real. Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.

Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen Hey, you

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

We put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking.

I try to make my clothing line an entry point for discovering the substance of the rest of my work.

I have only two conditions to choose a project - content with substance and space to perform.

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

I'm drawn to roles that have real substance, that aren't just the victim or the teenage girl or the girlfriend.

Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of jungle consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, dangerous form of fanatic stupor.

This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not.

Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.

THOUGHT is the only power which can produce tangible riches from the Formless Substance.

I am convinced that in times such as these, every man must be a soldier, in substance as well as in name.

Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.

Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.

What ends up happening is people form images and the image they form is, in some ways, what they want it to be. The idea of trying to correct the image is something I'm not interested in doing.

A refrigerator runs by converting the dust behind it into a peculiar mutant, reptilian substance.

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.

In the form of security and sufficiency for the men who labor to the profit of others, and in the form of registering and controlling them in the form of an organized public supervision of their labor, slavery is already afoot. When slavery shall succeed it will succeed through the acquiescence of those who will be enslaved, for they will prefer sufficiency and security with enslavement, to freedom, responsibility, insecurity and the threat of insufficiency.

Kenneth Burke calls form the satisfaction of an expectation; The Man Who Loved Children is full of such satisfactions, but it has a good deal of the deliberate disappointment of an expectation that is also form.

The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the black ovoid form is the symbol of fire, lava and destruction.

In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off from things as they really are.

We appear to have form, but we are like a whirlpool. We appear to have form, but we are just whirling electrons.

Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.

Each generation wants their own form of entertainment and their own form of storytelling.

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

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principle of individuation is matter.

Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.

Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.

All that is limited by form, semblance, sound, color is called object. Among them all, man alone is more than an object. Though, like objects, he has form and semblance, He is not limited to form. He is more. He can attain to formlessness. When he is beyond form and semblance, beyond "this" and "that," where is the comparison with another object? Where is the conflict? What can stand in his way? He will rest in his eternal place which is no-place. He will be hidden in his own unfathomable secret. His nature sinks to its root in the One. His vitality, his power hide in secret Tao.

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

For every drug that benefits a patient, there is a natural substance that can achieve the same effect.

The atoms may be compared to the letters of the alphabet, which can be put together into innumerable ways to form words. So the atoms are combined in equal variety to form what are called molecules.

I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.

I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

To get some of the substance of why [Michael] Flynn [is Defense Adviser] is so controversial.

People strive to achieve a certain form of perfection constantly and it's impossible because it's a form of opinion. I can think someone is pretty but the person next to me can think that they're unattractive.

I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.

There was always talk that the Horrors didn't have any substance but I think they're proving people wrong.

When employees unite, they form a union but when business owners unite, they form a team.

In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance

There are many times where we lose faith in our country and ourselves, and I think drag is definitely a form of entertainment and a form of hope that tells us we have to hope for a brighter future.