Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Benjamin

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

Virginia Woolf

Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.

William Bernbach

Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before.

Wayne Dyer

Within each and every one of us is a divine power that needs no substance or anything external to know bliss.

Robert M. Pirsig

Substance is a subspecies of value. When you reverse the containment process and define substance in terms of value the mystery disappears: substance is a "stable pattern of inorganic values." The problem then disappears. The world of objects and the world of values is unified.

Saint Augustine

I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters.

Wilson Mizner

Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen Hey, you

Rudyard Kipling

I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.

Yngwie Malmsteen

Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.

Bob Semling

I thought at the start of the second half we made a statement. I loved our toughness, heart and passion we gave out on the court. In big games like this it's all about surviving, conquering and moving on.

Buddha

To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.

Clark Gregg

I thought there would be more time in my trailer to write during 'Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.,' but I seem to be always flying in a harness and conquering supervillains instead.

Jonas Salk

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams

Woodrow Wilson

To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.

Virgil

They can conquer who belive they can.

Wendell Phillips

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.

Jorge Perez

I'm no Rambo or Terminator. I'm a Karate Kid who fights to defend family and neighbors. But the United States thinks it's the Roman Empire and can conquer the world.

William S. Burroughs

Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism.

Wally Lamb

With destruction comes renovation.

Rebecca Solnit

Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction.

Henry A. Kissinger

At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.

Marvin Gaye

For me, love carries the seeds of its own destruction.

Terry Tempest Williams

Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction.

Holly Black

Mutually assured destruction.

Carl Sagan

If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.

Edwin Way Teale

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.