#substance

As parents, we need to talk to young people about drugs and make sure they understand that drugs are dangerous, addictive substances that can ruin their lives and harm their communities. ↗

— John Walters

#addictive #communities #dangerous #harm #lives

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

— Edith Wharton

#easy #had #hardening #her #instead

One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential. ↗

— Bradley Whitford

#al #al gore #because #bush #debate

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

— Wilhelm Wundt

#concepts #does #honour #into #our

A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that. ↗

— Rachel Griffiths

#doubt #globe #golden #golden globe #no doubt

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#bury #carcass #friends #friendship #gone

In the issue war in Iraq, it was very clear to me that the policies that were being espoused by neoconservatives were totally devoid of substance - but they marketed it wonderfully. ↗

— Joseph C. Wilson

#clear #devoid #iraq #issue #marketed

The spin overwhelms the substance. That's very clearly what happened. ↗

— Joseph C. Wilson

#happened #overwhelms #spin #substance #very

Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war. ↗

— John S. Tanner

#among #atlantic #before #both #both sides

The only substance properly so called is the soul. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#only #properly #soul #substance