It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I think China's view of freedom has to do with material wealth and modernity, and the Dalai's Lama view of freedom is… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The gravest threat faced by the world is of an extremist group getting hold of nuclear weapons or materials. — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
We are often told we are materialistic. It seems to me, we are not materialistic enough. We have a disrespect for materials.… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artists power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
For me photography is just a way to collect material to realize the ideas in my mind. I get inspired by things… — Erik Johansson Copy Share Image
The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when… — Alessandro Nivola Copy Share Image
So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money?… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I'm pretty hard to impress, and I'm pretty exacting, in terms of what I want from my props department and art department.… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
Indeed we may consider the engine as the material and mechanical representative of analysis, and that our actual working powers in this… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin. — John Cudahy Copy Share Image
No writer, I believe, should attempt a novel before he is thirty, and not then unless he has been hopelessly and helplessly… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Design is... above all an effort to improve reality... I always try to begin with considerations of its function... I ask myself,… — Gianfranco Frattini Copy Share Image
As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
When people ask me to name the Ligonier teaching material they should use to help them grow; I tell them, 'You should… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
I'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material. — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
There was a concept a long time ago that you would do a different type of reactor called a "fast reactor," that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
A work of art is a work of order, and if the artist is to put the stamp of his own mind… — Henry Peach Robinson Copy Share Image
I have an intense personal interest in making the use of American capital in the development of China an instrument for the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Wool, cotton, and the odd bits of silk and cashmere are the only acceptable materials for Prep clothes. They look better. They… — Lisa Birnbach Copy Share Image
