Material Quotes

2445 Material quotes by 1790 unique authors

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. — Emily Dickinson
Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that… — Fernando Pessoa
You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship — Mitch Albom
Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are… — Libba Bray
I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and… — Anne Lamott
Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those Google scanners crouched… — Laurie R. King
with a touch of sarcasm. “Glass is an amazing material. Versatile, — Maria V. Snyder
Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then… — Anais Nin
Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality… — Iain Pears
You can present the material, but you can't make me care. — Bill Watterson
How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work. — Lawrence Durrell
He's laughing me into a stupor, she thought. I could heckle, I suppose, I could throw a bread roll at him, but he's eaten them… — David Nicholls
the material world and the flesh are only temporary - there are no sins of the flesh, spirit is everything! — Leslie Marmon Silko
No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power… — Arthur C. Clarke
Above a certain level of income, the relative value of material consumption vis-a-vis leisure time is diminished, so earning a higher income at the cost… — Ha-Joon Chang
...we're in English class, which for most of us is an excruciating exercise in staying awake through the great classics of literature. These works-- groundbreaking,… — Libba Bray
While an equality of rights under a limited government is possible and an essential condition of individual freedom, a claim for equality of material position… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Whatever you proclaim as your identity here in the material realm is also your drag. You are not your religion. You are not your skin… — RuPaul
Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist. — Alistair Begg
Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary… — H P Lovecraft
Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material. — Philip Roth
You're bored, aren't you.' 'I need constant distraction. Shall we go?' 'Uh, aren't you supposed to delegate responsibility or something? If you're not here, who's… — Derek Landy
What does it feel like?” he asked. “What does what feel like?” Peter thought for a moment. “Being at the top.” Josie reached across him… — Jodi Picoult
Jem knotted his fingers in the material of Will's sleeve. "You are my parabatai," he said, "You said once I could ask anything of you. — Cassandra Clare
Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances. — Aristotle

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