Materials Quotes · Page 14

If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of…

— Corra May Harris

The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose.…

— John Hersey

Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is…

— Anonymous

Now one does not think during creative work: any more than one thinks when driving a car. One has a background of…

— Edward Weston

When you are incubating new ideas, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" is very good advice. But when you are…

— Geoffrey Moore

Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse

— Arnold J. Toynbee

The most valuable lesson I've ever learned in my life is that life is about family and friends, not about material things…

— Vanilla Ice

Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.

— Barbara Tuchman

I have always thought of our Service as an institution, more than any other bureau, engaged in a field essentially of morality--the…

— Freeman Tilden

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological…

— Shirley Jackson

You have a different relationship to your own personal material than you do to other people's. When you go to the bathroom,…

— Marc Quinn

As a species, we create tools to control our environment. What excites my imagination is wilderness: our materials' ability to escape our…

— James Arthur

I am not bound by material things. It's being successful that drives me forward. I love success. I don't wake up in…

— Kevin Pietersen

The chemists work with inaccurate and poor measuring services, but they employ very good materials. The physicists, on the other hand, use…

— Wolfgang Ostwald

...by regularly reading business newspaper and magazines I am exposed to an enormous amount of material at the micro level.. I find…

— Charlie Munger

In this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves-our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and,…

— William E. Simon

The computer is the way I'm making books, but I still think about the physical properties. I visualize the length of a…

— Jonathan Lethem

No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the…

— Dalai Lama

There is no worse material poverty than one that does not allow for earning one’s bread and deprives one of the dignity…

— Pope Francis

For many years quantum physics had been giving indications that there are levels of reality other than the material level.

— Amit Goswami

As for the discipline, we [me and Frank Moore Cross] belong to two different disciplines. One involves research and archaeological materials. Mine…

— Elie Wiesel

To the world I may seem very poor, walking penniless and wearing or carrying in my pockets my only material possessions, but…

— Peace Pilgrim

When Xena finished I just really wanted to work with Shakespeare's material.

— Renee O'Connor

This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon…

— Lyndon B. Johnson