Their Material Quotes
24 quotes by 22 authors
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All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary…
— Alain LeRoy Locke
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Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not…
— Mother Teresa
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Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
— Ludwig von Mises
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It is easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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My father and mother. I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material.
— Jerry Stiller
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The most important thing for people to get is we're not even looking at one big investigation, all these agents working together. They were chopped…
— Sibel Edmonds
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I believe that almost all important, useful ideas are simple. Peter Whittle has recently put it nicely in an autobiographical essay. "If a piece of…
— Dennis Lindley
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Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to…
— Haley Reinhart
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I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis
— Antony Beevor
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The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the…
— Cyril Connolly
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World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of enslaved nations and…
— Joseph Stalin
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The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Contented Easterners are satisfied…
— Hu Shih
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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
— Karl Marx
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The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.
— Sienna Miller
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Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.
— James Cash Penney
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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
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It is a wretched thing that the young men of today are so contriving and so proud of their material posessions. Men with contriving hearts…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human…
— Bill Moyers
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Any object, whether animate or inanimate, will have a size. Airplanes, boats, or musical string instruments vary in size just like animals and plants, and…
— John Tyler Bonner
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Sometimes groups and their material can get overbloated.
— Fred Schneider
Who Wrote These Their Material Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 24 Their Material Quotes as follows: