Quotes for All
How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable substance. The emptiness in her thoughts would not be so easily filled. Instead there was a hollowness among them-a place she had reserved for future joys which now would never arrive. Galen Beckett
A long-term substance abuser, a few months before his death, penned this poem: Went downtown, Hastings and Main, looking for relief from the pain. All I did was find a ticket on a one-way train. … Give me peace before I die. The track is laid out so well; we all live our private hell; … Read more
Meat is necessary when there is hard physical work to be done, or in a very cold climate, or when edible plants cannot be found…Animal flesh provides all the substances we need, both for the intensive working of our organism and for maintaining a normal temperature in cold climates. G. I. Gurdjieff
I don’t feel like there’s any need to hide the fact that I smoke pot. It’s a harmless herbal substance that increases sensory appreciation. Ezra Miller
I think I enjoy playing human beings no matter the substance of their character. Ezra Miller
As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers. Ezra Cornell
We have launched an international campaign to legalize coca leaves, and we want the United Nations to remove coca from its list of toxic substances. Scientists proved long ago that coca leaves are not toxic. Evo Morales
Thus the radio elements formed strange and cruel families in which each member was created by spontaneous transformation of the mother substance: radium was a descendant of uranium, polonium a descendant of radium. Eve Curie
The biographies are very enlightening because you realise, Oh my God, all these people I’ve admired – and tried to emulate even – when I was younger died tragically from substance abuse. Eva Mendes
Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance. Ethan Zuckerman