Top 1200 Material Quotes & Sayings - Page 18
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy... use the conquered foe to augment one's own strength.
I do a lot of cultural material that's based on my traveling around the world. I basically just report what I've seen and where I've been.
Let the moment come when nothing is left but life, and you will find that you do not hesitate over the fate of material possessions.
Because I don't wear a suit, and have such a horrible boy band face, people assume that I'm not doing satirical material.
I was told I got 10 measly minutes, but just in case, I brought 13 hours worth of material.
We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend upon material success . . . but on Jesus alone.
I tend to be conversational and loose with dialogue in general, not out of disrespect for the source material but because that's the way I work.
The Louvre stopped buying paintings in 1848, and neither the Metropolitan nor the Hermitage acquire contemporary material.
Sometimes a fan comes up to me, and I'm really interested in how they're acting, so I'll study them and use that in my material.
There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity.
The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.
From a technical viewpoint, I have certain things I'd like to present in my solos. To do this, I have to get the right material. It has to swing, and it has to be varied.
Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.
My objective is to design a space that nobody else can come up with while using the material that anyone can use.
I've chosen television because of the quality of material that I'm offered, not being a writer, so I've turned a lot of features down.
By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained.
I think it is important to know how to teach new material to help young people grow and learn.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
There's a bit of hazing when it comes to the youth performers and a disbelief that you're capable of handling dramatic or comedic material on an adult level.
I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.
Be passionate about your [movie] material, because you're going to have to overcome a lot of "No's," and it's that passion that fuels the fight.
The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.
I wasn't the prettiest girl in class. No breasts, short legs, gangly teeth. I didn't think I was model material, that's for sure.
Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today.
The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity.
I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis
Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.
The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.
When you're 19 and writing plays, you think every actor is full of it. They just can't handle your brilliant material.
Often it's the case that we have to do a lot of exploration and marketing of the material we publish ourselves to get a big political impact for it.
People write a lot of similar material. That's why I try to come up with the most absurd jokes.
But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
I think philanthropy is so much more in keeping with spirit of shouting someone out than a material reward.
The world is not to be approached, blueprint in hand, as if it were so much raw material waiting to be fashioned to someone's design.
Thought isn't a form of energy. So how on Earth can it change material processes? That question has still not been answered.
I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.
I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across.
Social media might one day offer a dazzling, and even overwhelming, array of source material for historians.
I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.
With Shakespeare, because you invest so much time in working on material, it always sort of stays with you to some degree.
Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.
That's what comedy is like: You have to force yourself out in the world because you're always one experience away from new material.
Let's be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the spiritual aspects of our lives.
If you can get your life down to one minute at a time, you don't miss anything. You have total abundance of information and material.
Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things.
I don't need material things like gold and platinum records on my wall, Grammys or Hall Of Fame nods.
Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.
The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.
Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.
What is assumed to be the materialisation of the inner truth of the self is in fact an idealisation of the material - objectified - traces of consumer choices.
When I sign on for a project, I'm there to give the director all the material he or she might need to tell their story, and that's the number one priority.
Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?
I'm not the kind of actor that gets crazy with [directors'] names, what draws me toward a project is the material itself.
I believe absolutely that words must be treated as material weapons, every invective or threat as violence and aggression.
I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand.
Really you don't need more information. If you've lived twenty years, you probably have enough material for the rest of your life
The Daily Show was an incredible training ground for that kind of thing. It was all about discipline and generating material constantly.
In our enthusiasm to dominate nature and to produce more material good - goods - we have transformed means into ends.
Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life. Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be too.
We need to substitute for the book a device that will make it easy to transmit information without transporting material.
