Raw Materials Quotes

140 quotes by 127 authors

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we… — Jorge Luis Borges
Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved,… — Charles Spurgeon
Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent… — Warren G. Bennis
How can it be "mutually beneficial" to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering. — Che Guevara
Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the… — Karel Capek
Audacious faith is the raw material that authentic Christianity is made of. It's the stuff that triggers ordinarily level-headed people like you and me to… — Steven Furtick
You were born with two things: existence and opportunity, and these are the raw materials out of which you can make a successful life. — Charles Templeton
I found I'm quite happy working on a sentence for an hour or more, searching for the right phrase, the right word. I compare it… — Harriet Doerr
Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted. — Francine Prose
Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle,… — Arnold Bennett
Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being… — Marcus Aurelius
Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft. — P.D. James
What's the number-one thing people do on the Web? They read. Words and numbers are the raw material from which the vast majority of webpages… — Gerry McGovern
The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and… — David Ben-Gurion
The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race. — Branch Rickey
And the reward when good people die - her mother paused, swallowed, paused again - the reward when good people die is that they get… — Dara Horn
America's workers face a battle for their jobs. They are the finest workers in the world. American workers grow, harvest, and mine some of the… — Christopher Bond
Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others. — Timothy Keller
It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever… — William Ernest Henley

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