Material Quotes
2445 quotes by 1849 authors
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Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies…
— William James
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The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reasoning and analysis, but first of all by living. For…
— Thomas Merton
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The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going…
— Stanley Kubrick
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Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality…
— Pedro Almodovar
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In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance.
— Imelda Marcos
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The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most
— Muhammad Ali
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We live in a world of breathtaking material plenty. That has freed hundreds of millions of people from day-to-day struggles and liberated us to pursue…
— Daniel H. Pink
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At the final day the Savior will not ask about the nature of our callings. He will not inquire about our material possessions or fame.…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the…
— Sergei Eisenstein
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I was very privileged and really blessed with so many material and spiritual gifts that I should give back, ... I should do something for…
— Corazon Aquino
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We tend to think of consecration only as yielding up, when divinely directed, our material possessions. But ultimate consecration is the yielding up of oneself…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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As members of the Lord's Church, we must take missionary work more seriously. The Lord's commission to 'preach the gospel to every creature' (Mark 16:15)…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material, and that definitely includes…
— Daniel Ellsberg
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Material possessions in themselves are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing, shelter and food. Yet if we refuse to share what…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is…
— Sylvia Plath
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I try to be nice, I try to respect other people, but over the years I've learned that all this stuff we do is a…
— Tom Ford
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Those in the community who defy authority and 'break the law' seem to enjoy the good life and have everything in the way of material…
— Huey Newton
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Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.
— Ilya Ehrenburg
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The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends…
— Woodrow Wilson
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I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity.
— Benny Hinn
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