Material Quotes

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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?â€ he asked. â€œWhat does what feel like?â€ Peter thought for a moment. â€œBeing at the top.â€ 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
Sometimes divulging your vulnerabilities without any kind of filter can make you more human, but then again, it can also provide material that can be… — Tonya Hurley
Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and… — Henry David Thoreau
And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect… — Marcel Proust
With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact itâ€™s essential to slow down and read every… — Francine Prose
We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our… — Alain de Botton

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