Raw Materials Quotes

140 quotes by 127 authors

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. — John Berger
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. — William S. Burroughs
We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials… — Deepak Chopra
A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series.… — John Bates Clark
The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have… — C.S. Lewis
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up… — Horace Mann
The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total result… — C.S. Lewis
A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will. — Eric Hoffer
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state. — Ambrose Bierce
One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously… — Henry David Thoreau
Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes. — Thomas Carlyle
The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that… — Eudora Welty
There is as much difference between a collection of mentally free citizens and a community molded by modern methods of propaganda as there is between… — Bertrand Russell
What we need in this country is a general improvement in eating. We have the best raw materials in the world, both quantitatively and qualitatively,… — H. L. Mencken
Where the eye is focused, there the imagination finds its raw material. The right focus must be won at immense cost and discipline. Train the… — Ravi Zacharias
Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material. — Dorothy Richardson
Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials. — Howard Thurman
Hope is the raw material of losers. — Fernando Flores
Humanity stands ... before a great problem of finding new raw materials and new sources of energy that shall never become exhausted. In the meantime… — Svante Arrhenius

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