Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings. — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. — William James Copy Share Image
You have to laugh at yourself. Otherwise you'll waste all that great material. — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit. — John Selden Copy Share Image
The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples. — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Our noblest purpose in life is to remember our spiritual nature in the face of suggestions that we are a material society. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death… — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've… — Tim Conway Copy Share Image
I use geometric and mathematical ideas to organize material, but those are tools. The purpose of the work is not to expose… — Lucinda Childs Copy Share Image
Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The Rig Veda defines yoga as a union or "yoking" of the material and spiritual worlds, and it doesn't describe any physical… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Being an artist is not just about what happens when you are in the studio. The way you live, the people you… — Teresita Fernandez Copy Share Image
If I am using a sable, it may start off as an eight or seven, but it's a double aught by the… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
My creative process isn't a long one, so I could have started a song 10 years ago and then finish it 10… — Antony Hegarty Copy Share Image
I’m interested in vernacular cultures, where people lived a little closer to the source of materials and the making of objects for… — Martin Puryear Copy Share Image
I didn't know how to grab your best material and put it together into a comedy set. I would just choose subjects… — Felipe Esparza Copy Share Image
A life without love is a waste. 'Should I look for spiritual love, or material, or physical love?', don't ask yourself this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The more subtle thing is more speculative. The world is well past its long-term carrying capacity for human beings living a European,… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
Resolutions expressing Parliamentary approval of every Treaty before ratification would be a very cumbersome form of procedure and would burden the House… — Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede Copy Share Image
The money economy thus leaves a large ecological footprint, defined as the amount of land and resources required to meet a typical… — Stuart L. Hart Copy Share Image
Religion is simply an ideal. It is an ideal force that tends to free the human being from material bonds. I do… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The public, as a whole, does not demand or appreciate the pure expression of beauty. Its cultured members expect to find in… — Harold Monro Copy Share Image
I do my best writing between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.. Almost every friend I have who is a consistently productive writer,… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
The soul is the form of the body, but not as the shape of a statue is formatio et terminatio materiae, for… — Michael Flynn Copy Share Image
Like a researcher in his laboratory, I am the first spectator of the suggestions drawn from the materials. I unleash their expressive… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Be close enough to people so that you are indifferent to the material. And also have faith. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I was 23 with a mullet doing lots of jerk-off material.I can't look at the old tapes now. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is. — Don Johnson Copy Share Image
24 hour broadcasts have to stretch limited material to fit 24 hours worth of space. — Drew Curtis Copy Share Image
