Material Quotes

2445 quotes by 1849 authors

...well this US eight, with all its material occupying every seat just would not go fast. They rowed their hearts out but it never started… — Daniel Topolski
This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat… — Renzo Piano
I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the… — Ann Veneman
Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie. — Lukas Haas
We are profoundly grateful for the blessings bestowed upon us: the preservation of our freedom, so dearly bought and so highly prized; our opportunities for… — Harry S. Truman
Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some… — Aaron Scharf
I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and… — Jim Hodges
Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light… — George Santayana
When I seek him, root my values and desires in him, when I found my relationships and sense of self on him, my capacity for… — Gregory S. Paul
First, we should become informed about communism, about socialism, and about Americanism. What better way can one become informed than by first studying the inspired… — Ezra Taft Benson
The similarities among animals that are on the surface very different are no coincidence. In fact, animal locomotion is no different than other flows, animate… — Adrian Bejan
Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form. — William Walker Atkinson
In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of spiritual conceptions. Equality,… — Calvin Coolidge
It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast and debris by dismissing the… — Indra Devi
We call it keeping up with the Joneses. They buy a boat and we buy a bigger one. They get a new TV and we… — Melody Beattie
We know that material things don't offer contentment, but we still buy more-more of the props and gadgets our culture tells us we must have… — Susan L. Taylor
Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and at times noisy)… — Bernard Levin
When a person's primary objective is to maximize material pleasures while minimizing discomforts, then life becomes a constant process of "pushing" (trying to push away… — Duane Elgin
The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us… — Raoul Vaneigem

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