Material Quotes

2445 quotes by 1790 authors

I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search… — Evelyn Waugh
There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm… — Bill Bryson
I begin with the young. We older ones are used up but my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at… — Adolf Hitler
Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. — Eric Hobsbawm
It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among… — Mark Twain
I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he… — Jon Krakauer
From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position,… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end;… — Ayn Rand
Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions. — Chuck Palahniuk
It seems to me that people who donâ€™t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disabilityâ€”there is something different about the… — John Irving
Miss X has always been a ditherer -- she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then. — Mary Ann Shaffer
That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But… — C.S. Lewis
Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if… — Ray Bradbury
Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he… — Henry David Thoreau
The soul is the form of the body, but not as the shape of a statue is formatio et terminatio materiae, for form does not… — Michael Flynn
A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have… — Jorge Luis Borges
At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess,… — Jon Krakauer
The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate. — Isaac Asimov
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and… — John Dewey
The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not… — John Hersey

Who Wrote These Material Quotes

1,790 authors contributed a total of 2,445 Material Quotes, led by these top contributors: