Materials Quotes · Page 55

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

— Ludwig von Mises

Let me repeat what I have repeated for many months now. I never received nor sent any material that was marked classified.

— Hillary Clinton

Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.

— Boris Spassky

Buying experience such as going out to dinner or taking a vacation increases our own wellbeing and the wellbeing of others. Experiences…

— Tom Rath

Thhe essence of documentary filmmaking is how you manipulate the material to create an emotional impact, as opposed to just delivering information.

— Richard Ray Perez

One's own self or material goods, which has more worth? Loss (of self) or possession (of goods), which is the greater evil?…

— Laozi

Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see…

— Twyla Tharp

We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.

— Davy Jones

To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize…

— Archie Shepp

Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the…

— Sathya Sai Baba

We've got to temper anything we say with that. On the other hand, you've got to be serious about what you do.…

— Leonard Cohen

I came to the conclusion is that we have a very shallow view of human nature in the policy world. We're really…

— David Brooks

I've lived a lot in communist countries and they're intensely interested in money. I think they are more interested in money than…

— Truman Capote

As my spiritual growth expanded and developed, voluntary simplicity was a natural outgrowth. I came to realize the cost of material accumulation…

— Duane Elgin

Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost…

— Erich Fromm

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

In this noisy, restless, bewildering age, there is a great need for quietness of spirit. Even in our communion with God we…

— Alice Hegan Rice

The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put…

— Nhat Hanh

The most central and irrational faith among people is the faith in technology and economical growth. Its priests believe until their death…

— Pentti Linkola

Others of them employ outward marks ... They style themselves Gnostics. They also possess images, some of them painted and others formed…

— Irenaeus of Lyons

Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But…

— Barbara Hepworth

Life beats down and crushes our souls and theatre reminds us that we have one. At least the type of theatre that…

— Sanford Meisner

The crime of liberation theology was that it takes the Gospels seriously. That's unacceptable. The Gospels are radical pacifist material, if you…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Edward Weston

I argue that legal equality has failed resistance movements aimed at transforming material conditions of violence, and that trans activists should take…

— Dean Spade

We are made of stardust, our whole body consists of material that has been here before the beginning of time.

— Giorgio A. Tsoukalos

One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only…

— Al Yankovic

Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for…

— Henry David Thoreau

Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy.

— Henry Giroux

My material never comes out verbatim every time. I always tweak in a line, or tweak away a line, gain a couple…

— Gabriel Iglesias

I always go back to the original material. I want a good connection as the composer and writer of the score to…

— Howard Shore

I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or…

— Jim Dale

Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question,…

— Kathy Acker

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

As you get older, your experiences become more precious. Nothing material is important to me. It's people who are precious.

— Michael Bolton

I found the material that people hated the most and used the most. So, I was going and try and see if…

— Frank Gehry

Possessing material comforts in no way guarantees happiness. Only spiritual wealth can bring true true happiness.

— Konosuke Matsushita

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between…

— Barry Schuler

I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow,…

— Louis Kahn

It's hard to know where your thoughts come from, especially when you have a thirst for material because you need it professionally.

— Louis C. K