Top 155 Substantive Quotes & Sayings

I don't spend too much time attempting to defend myself against people who seem to have zero desire to have a substantive conversation.

Our state needs to make real, substantive structural changes to facilitate a sustainable financial future.

I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people.

The problem with article 50 of the Lisbon treaty is that it is not substantive in its content or conditions, and only concerns itself with procedural requirements.

The main substantive achievement of neoliberalism has been to redistribute rather than to generate wealth and income.

Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.

By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them

Gerald's Game,' we could not have made it at a studio without substantive changes to the story.

I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done.

If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media.

In the culture we live in, there's this pervasive, shared agreement that there's a certain body type to admire, and it isn't actually based on anything real or substantive.

I'm not just a politician, I'm a guy who has a real deep, substantive, commitment to education.

...there is no substantive basis for predictions of sizeable global warming due to observed increases in minor greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and chlorofluorocarbons.

The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.

It is important to have a reliable and substantive publication such as World Screen available as a source for information. The magazine's reporting is always on the cutting edge of the global television business.

We need a more substantive conversation around race relations and the way people of color are treated.

The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.

Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.

I mean what had always been attractive to me about the State Department spokesperson role is that it's traditionally been a very substantive position.

I used to animate. I started in animation, and you'd end every day with at least one substantive contribution.

When permitted to listen to alternative opinions and engage in substantive debate, people have been known to change their minds. It can happen.

I can't watch the news anymore. They have their priorities all out of whack. All I see is Natalee Holloway and Britney Spears and the war in Iraq. Where's the substantive news? Where's the Zach Braff coverage?

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty

There is no substantive, rational defense; I mean, the other side doesn't have a case.

The political and substantive reality is that the agenda has to change. I don't think they have any choice.

The advanced members of the medical profession know that the health of society is not to be obtained or maintained by medicines; - that it is far better, far more easy and far wiser, to adopt substantive measures to prevent disease of body or mind, than to allow substantive measure to remain continually to generate causes to produce physical and mental disorders.

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.

At the end of the day, all the best negotiating techniques can't overcome the most substantive policy differences.

Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive.

There can, therefore, be no doubt that Presbyterians do carry out the principle that Church power vests in the Church itself, and that the people have a right to a substantive part in its discipline and government.

The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.

I firmly believe that a free Iraq will be a catalyst to other substantive and important changes in that part of the world.

Half of the interview is substantive and half of it I think is sizing the person up.

Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others.

One of your tasks is to separate the 'personal' from the 'substantive.' The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.

I want politicians to be held to account for their politics and their principles, or lack of them, but I find it irritating that we have a culture where people are more interested in trivial gossip than substantive matters.

If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.

The only time we create any kind of substantive change is when we reach out to a disaffected electorate and inspire and motivate them to vote.

To somebody like Obama, substantive opposition is not tolerable. The objective is to eliminate all opposition - be it a political party, be it media, or what have you.

Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.

When your goal is to bring together the country in a substantive way to say that we're united by values and more - that are - you know, stronger than the things that divide us. That could be a moment.

Everyone knows about the substantive issues of concern, like federal health care, but very little is said about the process, the lack of accountability.

[I]f one asks what substantive contributions [F. A. Hayek] made to our understanding of how the world works, one is left at something of a loss. Were it not for his politics, he would be virtually forgotten.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

It is part of the work of education to have substantive relationships with your students.

There are not that many parts for actors who are not white - even less substantive ones.

A small group of councillors sought to force a vote of no-confidence in my leadership. They did so with no substantive consultation with the members they represent.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform.

It's important, at least for me, that while we're entertaining, there's also something substantive to talk about.

The central genius of the American Constitution lies in its use of structure to protect individual liberty. It does not rely solely, or even primarily, on grants of substantive rights.

I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op.

The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles in almost every conceivable way.

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

Your big movie stars who've been in blockbusters generating a lot of dollars are looking for the meatier, substantive roles that they think will make the awards season.

When 'Men's Health' reached out and said, 'Will you be on the 'Today Show' and do a fitness challenge?' I said, 'OK. I'm not showing them anything they don't already know.' But I'm going to take what some would argue is a negative or not substantive and turn it into a substantive thing to hopefully do some good for people.

The substantive difference between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is not really that great.

Assad wanted Israel to capitulate in advance to all his demands. Only then would he agree to enter into substantive negotiations. I couldn't agree to this.

Over my 24 years in the Senate, Jim, I've never voted against anyone because of their substantive views.

Apprenticeships must be more than a re-branding of in-work training if they are going to have a substantive impact on the future economy and the life chances of our young people.