Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stanley

Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.

Chow Yun-Fat

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

Dave Barry

This is true; virtually all edible substances, and many automotive products, are now marketed as being low-fat or fat-free. Americans are obsessed with fat content.

Edith Wharton

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

Barry Commoner

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

Diane Wakoski

We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.

Alfred North Whitehead

Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.

Hermann Weyl

Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.

Charlotte Bronte

Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

Dorothy Richardson

No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women.

Fulton J. Sheen

To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity.

George Stevens

The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience.

George Bernard Shaw

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

Primo Levi

The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and corruption.

Joseph de Maistre

Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.

Joshua Reynolds

I have heard painters acknowledge, though in that acknowledgment no degradation of themselves was intended, that they could do better without nature than with her; or as they express themselves, 'that it only put them out.

Chuck Palahniuk

You have to keep recycling yourself.

Mary Johnson

Without the Wheelchair Recycling Program, we can't do what we do.

Mike Quigley

I like to take out the recycling because I actually feel like I'm doing something.

Beezer Molten

Here, all waste will be viewed as a recycling opportunity.

Lewis Carroll

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?

Jodie Foster

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.