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Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman - her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
The poor looking shepherd of the dessert is in substance very rich with all the magical treasures of the desert.
The entire substance of the spleen at an early period is almost entirely composed of nuclei and granular matter.
As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.
We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.
A lot of people talk, but they don't say anything. And people listen, and they don't absorb anything of substance.
I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.
Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind
Therefore, the substance of [Donald] Trump policies never got covered, because it wasn't what interested the media.
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
There is not a single health-promoting substance present in grains that you can’t also get from vegetables and fruit.
No one can deny who you are unless you are, in some way, minimizing the power and the force of your divine substance.
The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.
The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.
As far as films are concerned, I would take up only those roles which are challenging and have some substance in them.
No form remains permanently in a substance; a constant change takes place, one form is taken off and another is put on.
If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
Unbuttered toast is a substance half complete, and to be forced to eat it in that state is necessarily to feel deprived.
By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.
I've never been a thin girl. I grew up being - I don't want to say a plus-size girl, but a girl of curves and substance.
In Washington, task forces work like Tylenol: they reduce the symptoms of scandal while leaving the substance untouched.
When you're working and making money, that's all good, but there has to be something that provides a substance, I think.
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.
My faith - as well as my Nigerian culture - really gave me the substance and foundation to be who I desire to be in life.
Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.
The substance of all realities is in this religion of Jesus Christ; but it can be real only to those who will do His will.
We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love
Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.
Everybody talking about being afraid of being boring is boring. You have to go for the real substance of life after awhile.
FYI: when you see a grammar nazi foaming at the mouth, you are watching someone with absolutely nothing of substance to say.
Mature roles full of substance the kind played by Robert De Niro and Al Pacino - my favourite actors - is what I want to do.
I want to do every kind of role with a reasonable amount of panache. I want to be a fair combination of style and substance.
It's really scary or it's easy to generate fear around an idea or around an -ism when you don't provide any substance to it.
When it's between the covers of a book, content is perceived to have literary substance - or more so that it might otherwise.
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.
That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species. To drink beer is to be human.
I will scrape and dig into every word as far as I can get, right down to the essence of the word, to the substance of the image.
Now, I worry a bit about the TEDification of the world where style trumps substance, so hopefully you have a good blend of both!
One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.
Just because something is melodic or catchy doesn't mean that it doesn't have depth and substance and progressive sensibilities.
In any situation you can think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear, while patience represents substance and strength.
My council to Ted [Turner] is that he should watch Fox Business. He'll be elated to find how much substance there is in our news.
Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament.