Top 1200 Material Possessions Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

That's a nice tie... Do you have any knickers in that material?

I've always been drawn to raw material.

In the daily lives of most men and women, fear plays a greater part than hope: they are more filled with the thought of the possessions that others may take from them, than of the joy that they might create in their own lives and in the lives with which they come in contact. It is not so that life should be lived.

It's nice to have material things but they're very superficial aren't they?

Time is the explicable raw material of everything.

Each material has its own message.

Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.

If a person claims that he really loves someone, evidence is asked from him. And that evidence is the giving away of possessions, the granting of favors. Just as when Mevlana claimed that he loved me, when I came he granted me thousands of favors and protected me. I regard these all as a grace from God.

I'm currently trying to direct my own material.

Contrary to what they tell you... You are not a limited material being.

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

There's nothing wrong with possessions; it's just that they have value to us only when we use them, engage them, and enjoy them. They're nouns that mean something only in conjunction with verbs. That's why wealth is so dangerous: if you're not careful you can easily end up with a garage full of nouns.

I may not like the material, but I'm still a trouper.

I am totally unattached to material items.

I'm probably not long-term-relationship material for now.

When you're a dad, there's a ton of material there with your family.

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

Each of us is a spirit in material form.

There is no material universe. There is no reality. All that exists are images.

Wealth is not a material gain, but a state of mind.

Sometimes groups and their material can get overbloated.

The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one forget eternity and the fear of death.

We recognize that our progress as a species does not have to be defined in terms of wealth or material and physical growth any more than our progress as individuals has to be defined in terms of physical growth. Physical growth of the body reaches a limit, but the character and the soul of the individual continues to grow, or at least has a chance to continue, often to our last breath. It is simple minded to define our well being in material terms, when that well-being has an aesthetic dimension, and intellectual dimension, a moral dimension.

First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.

The excellence of metallic money in free circulation consists in the fact that it renders impossible the abuse of the power of the government to dispose of the possessions of its citizens by means of its monetary policy and thus serves as the solid foundation of economic liberty within each country and of free trade between one country and another.

The true is not material reality only.

Color is whatever comes out of the material and keeps it what it is.

Truth is to the moral world what gravitation is to the material.

Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships.

... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives are mortal if our soul is not; and the sentiment which reconciled Lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one.

I always viewed life as material for a movie.

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

I have always been into reading serious material.

I don't like to attach myself to material things.

You can present the material, but you can't make me care.

I never defend my material. Comedy is subjective.

Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do.

Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.

Material interests are not the only guiding light.

Marriages are best made of dissimilar material.

If the Christ we follow sent out his disciples with no extra possessions (Luke 9:1-6 and 10:1-12) and warned would-be devotees that he had nowhere to lay his head (see Luke 9:57-62), then we must recognize that it is extremely difficult to live in a Christian way in a consumer culture.

Never has a material been as overrated as leather.

I'm such a huge fan of all this material that I'm spoofing.

Material things aren't important to me.

The problem carbon is that everyone thinks we have an energy problem, we don't. We have plenty of energy. We have a carbon problem. Carbon is a material, so we have a material problem, not an energy problem.

I do like directing other people's material.

The Absolute is the material of both God and man.

If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life.

The material universe exists only in the mind.

The material world may be nothing but illusion.

What drives me is character driven material.

Music is what I care about. Not material things.

There's more to life than physical and material.

'White Material' is about courage and craziness.

Material things are delightful, but they're not important.

It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

To measure success with material things is failure!

My goal is to generate more material for myself.