Top 1200 Material Possessions Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I don't have a desire for material things. As long as I'm happy, I'm good, man.

The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

When you're doing something where you really like the material, it doesn't matter what medium it's in.

I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you.

A special validates you as a stand-up by documenting your material.

There is no limit to beauty, no saturation point in design, no end to the material.

Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.

I don't know what's funny and what's not so I test out all of my material in front of audiences.

The hope that God has provided for you is not merely a wish. Neither is it dependent on other people, possessions, or circumstances for its validity. Instead, biblical hope is an application of your faith that supplies a confident expectation in God's fulfillment of His promises. Coupled with faith and love, hope is part of the abiding characteristics in a believer's life.

We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.

Peace is a great goal, but it is not a panacea. Neither is material wealth.

The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.

Weak minds lead to weak actions. A strong, disciplined mind, which anyone can cultivate though daily practice, can achieve miracles. If you want to live life to the fullest, care for your thoughts as you would your most prized possessions. Work hard to remove all inner turbulence. The rewards will be abundant.

It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.

Exorcists always need to distinguish demonic possessions from mental or psychiatric disorders, and they use three symptoms to identify people as possessed. First, those people have the ability to see hidden sacred objects, which they always want removed. Second, they have an extraordinary physical strength. And third, they show an aversion to the sacred

"Homicide: Life on the Street" is the best material I've had the chance to do.

All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man; being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

I live in one of Judy Garland's houses. As a fan, I never much liked Judy Garland, but living here, I feel like I have come to know her. People have given me a few of her possessions, and my neighbors have told me things that I wish I didn't know.

MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.

This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

It's not only about the material things - I also have a spiritual side.

We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.

The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.

Biocides, for example, are designed to kill bacteria—it's not a benign material.

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

I am not trying to do material which I cannot do full out.

A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.

In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.

Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.

Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.

There are only so many material things you can have before it becomes boring.

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on.

Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.

When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening.

Scripts are kind of a bare bones type of reading material.

I've been lucky to be able to work with great people and on interesting material.

The point is just to create a discipline for making sure that you're creating material.

I am a huge fan of porcelain in kitchens. It's an easy, interesting material.

I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.

If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.

I do like two hours of new material every year.

Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.

Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals.

Lonely? Give it to Jesus. The loneliness itself is material for sacrifice.

Material development alone does not yield genuine inner peace.

It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past.

Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.

We are living in a material world, so why not live with something beautiful?

I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material.

The mental pattern must always precede the material form.

Most actors want to sink their teeth into amazing material.

I don't want to do something, if I don't feel like I can do a good job serving the material.

As long as there are annoying people in the world, I won't run out of material.

The real challenge the rich young man faced was not just giving up his possessions, but giving up himself. The last command Jesus says ("Come, follow me") is the one that we so often overlook and think that he must have left Jesus simply because he liked his green bills.