Material Quotes

2445 quotes by 1849 authors

I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can bring fresh new… — Terri Windling
The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not… — Laozi
I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've… — Leonardo DiCaprio
News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself. — Rose Macaulay
Life, on this Earth may be likened to a great Kaleidoscope before which the scenes and facts and material substances are ever shifting and changing… — Napoleon Hill
CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material… — Ambrose Bierce
There's more to life than physical and material. — Ziggy Marley
I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is. — Eric Idle
I don't cringe when I think of doing old material. A lot of the people have been with me through the years. — Steve Forbert
Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates,… — Hjalmar Schacht
Your little army, derided for its want of arms, derided for its lack of all the essential material of war, has met the grand army… — Jefferson Davis
No matter what you might be going through right now, God has blessed you far more than you probably imagine-not just with material goods, but… — Billy Graham
He was a long, stripy policeman, who flowed out of his uniform at odd spots, as if Nature, setting out to make a constable, had… — P.G. Wodehouse
The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in the existence of… — Paul Sweezy
The reality of man is his thought, not his material body. The thought force and the animal force are partners. Although man is part of… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity. — Spiro Kostof
Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy. — Adam Sandler
And the rigidity of the material with which we have to compose, is a more formidable opponent than Lasker or Capablanca. Because these lifeless opponents… — Henri Weenink
Often you will find the opposite situation. The author seems to have interesting ideas, but he is not able to illustrate them with decent examples.… — Mark Dvoretsky
Successful living does not mean accumulating material things, it means inner peace of mind; it means that gift of being able to adjust oneself to… — Albert E Cliffe

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