All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.
You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth.
And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.
Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.
Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.
A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
My mother taught us that ambition is part of femininity and really taught us to have substance but also style.
Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.
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.
I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance.
We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.
The only substance properly so called is the soul.
Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance.
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
Too often, campaigns are all flash and no substance.
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.
The older view of the nature of heat was that it is a substance, very fine and imponderable indeed, but indestructible, and unchangeable in quantity, which is an essential fundamental property of all matter.
My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman - her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.
The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.
Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.
What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.
Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance.
When I graduated from Brown after majoring in women's studies, I made my first PBS documentary, 'Women of Substance.' My first feature documentary was called 'American Hollow,' which I did for HBO and was at the Sundance Film Festival.
The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula.
I think I enjoy playing human beings no matter the substance of their character.
My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.
At the request of the special counsel, Mr. Rove will not discuss the substance of his testimony.
We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide ion than that furnished by pure water. This is a very one sided definition.
The whole environmental policy in the Netherlands has no substance any more.
Nothing so enchants attorneys general, their eyes generally fixed on higher public office, as slinging accusations against successful financial executives. Preening press conferences and fawning media coverage are virtually guaranteed, whether or not the charges have substance.
