Top 1200 Material Possessions Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

A tree is a being that is more spiritual than material.

I'm not a material guy, so I don't need to surround myself with wealth.

I'm always inspired when there's a robustness to the material in front of me.

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

Spiritual influence never coincided with material affluence.

What kind of man reads Playboy? He is fastidious about his appearance, his home and his possessions. He wants as much sex as possible and chooses sexual partners mostly on the basis of appearance. He is self-absorbed and doesn't want emotional involvement or commitment. He thinks a woman and children would be a burden.

Material girls like Madonna Model for Donatella

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.

The body is solid material wrapped around the breath

I can always create new material. That's something I can control.

I don't know anything about politics, so I don't do political material.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it.

[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.

Gandhi was a David with no material weapon.. not even a slingshot.

There's a lot of psychological material that you inherit from your family.

Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.

As an actor, you always dream of having material that showcases what you can do.

Writers and filmmakers have this age-old relationship to the material.

For me, working on original material is very important.

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him. Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship - our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations.

Certainly, possessions, money, and power can give a momentary thrill, the illusion of being happy, but they end up possessing us and making us always want to have more, never satisfied. ‘Put on Christ’ in your life, place your trust in him, and you will never be disappointed!

You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'Here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both.

Ugh! Why couldn’t anyone ever trust her? She wasn’t a two-year-old. If her kindness killed her, then she was better off dead than living a cold, unfeeling life where she misered up all her feelings and possessions.’ (Sunshine)

When I want to work on my material, I go to Benihana or the barbershop.

Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

I was lucky enough to meet the Material Girl twice.

It's frustrating not to have more control over your material.

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.

As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.

I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.

I don't put my nose up at anything if the material is good.

Of my Disney material, 'Tangled' is my most pop-oriented.

I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

What you want, as a filmmaker, is to be obsessed with and fall in love with the material.

The pitch is the most important material for a football player.

Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.

Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.

With a touch of sarcasm. "Glass is an amazing material. Versatile.

Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material.

Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier. This comes about in many ways: by their lightening each other's burdens through mutual help; by constant and faithful love; by having all their possessions in common; and by the heavenly grace which flows from the sacrament.

He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real.

It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. . . . The Indians in their simplicity literally give away all that they have—to relatives, to guests of other tribes or clans, but above all to the poor and the aged, from whom they can hope for no return.

Over time, you accumulate a lot of life material.

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.

The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web.

I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.

Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.

A lot of our earlier material was freestyle tunes.

Material things aside, we need not advice but approval.

We had a certain kind of material that was not dangerously esoteric.

Why else do we have Miami, if not to give me material?

In April, God speaks to us in the seas whose rhythmic murmuring fills our ears from a long way off. It was in April that the Titanic went down into the deep to lie like a slasher's victim, bleeding the 'debris field' - its passengers' personal possessions, the everyday things of everyman and everywoman - across the ocean's floor.

Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.

Really original material is quite hard to find.

The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material.

I never got nervous performing my own material.