Material Quotes

2445 Material quotes by 1790 unique authors

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
Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly;… — E. M. Forster
Material girls like Madonna Model for Donatella — Nicki Minaj
Oh no we don't play with silly girls All I know is the material girls — Nicki Minaj
In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it. — Antonin Artaud
With what moral authority can [the US] speak of human rights... the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; where the… — Fidel Castro
There is only one basic desire that motivates the spiritual seeker-to make the experience of God, of divine bliss and joy, the center of the… — Douglas Bloch
With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome. — Edward Carpenter
In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've worked… — Nick Stahl
It is no secret that any talented player must in his soul be an artist, and what could be dearer to his heart and soul… — David Bronstein
I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts. — Javier Bardem
Seventy years of ad-lib material, and I am speechless. — Bob Hope
When you are completely free from boundaries, you don't have to have a huge number of material things. You already own something far more precious.… — Deepak Chopra
At the very instant that you think, "I am happy," a chemical messenger translates your emotion, which has no solid existence whatever in the material… — Deepak Chopra
It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material. — Efim Geller
Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern,… — Chris Ware
I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the… — Alan Dean Foster
They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a… — Dixie Lee Ray
Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang? So far as… — Russell Kirk
... if we are serious about helping nature, we need to be willing to forego material benefits. — Douglas J. Moo
Material things aside, we need not advice but approval. — Coco Chanel

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