Material Quotes

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From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone elseâ€™s. She read books at… — Sebastian Faulks
I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or… — Caroline Myss
The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence… — William James
Francesca took a navy blue sheath from a hanger and held it up. "This is darling, Gabriel. Don't you love it? You're right, I think… — Christine Feehan
When is the last time you were a tourist?â€ she asked archly. He just looked at her. Charles, she had to agree, was not tourist… — Patricia Briggs
I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias. — Vikram Seth
So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone who willfully indulges… — David Platt
Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled,… — Alan Watts
And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and… — Neil Gaiman
To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces. — Arthur Conan Doyle
The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2… — Susan Sontag
My shoes I got to pick. I chose worn-out red flats. I figured I should make it clear from the start that I wasnâ€™t princess… — Kiera Cass
Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last… — Giacomo Casanova
It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from… — Anne Rice
But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is an extruder of… — Terence McKenna
Where do you come up with these zingers, Clint? Do you own some kind of joke factory in Indonesia where you've got eight-year-olds working ninety… — John Green
It is a fatal mistake to assume that Godâ€™s goal for your life is material prosperity or popular success, as the world defines it. The… — Rick Warren
Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyoneâ€™s head. They are fighting to win material benefits,… — Amilcar Cabral
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servantsâ€™ quarters and leaves… — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the… — Erich Fromm

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