Material Quotes - page 2

After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. ... The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor. (George William Russell)
I recognize nothing that is not material. In physics, chemistry and biology I see only mechanics. The Universe is nothing but an infinite and complex mechanism. Its complexity is so great that it borders on willfulness, suddenness, and randomness; it gives the illusion of free will possessed by conscious beings. View quote
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good. View quote
Keanu Reeves
One need not be a chamber to be haunted One need not be a house The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. View quote
Emily Dickinson
Spiritual force is stronger than material force thoughts rule the world. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. View quote
Barbara De Angelis
It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings. View quote
Wim Wenders
What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell. View quote
Richard Russo
The capabilities (intellectual and material) of contemporary society are immeasurably greater than ever before-which means that the scope of society's domination over the individual is immeasurably greater than ever before. Our society distinguishes itself by conquering the centrifugal social forces with Technology rather than Terror, on the dual basis of an overwhelming efficiency and an increasing standard of living. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself. (Marie-Louise von Franz)
Many years before I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need. View quote
Fritz Sauckel
As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written. View quote
Mark Strand
Economic growth springs from better recipes, not just from more cooking. New recipes produce fewer unpleasant side effects and generate more economic value per unit of raw material. View quote
Paul Romer
Nature, of course, has its share in the life of the soul and in numerous manifestations deeply influences human life. But this natural life of the soul is peripheral, mere appendix to the material phenomena of nature. View quote
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside. View quote
Tadao Ando
Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with. View quote
Frank Auerbach
The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual. View quote
Arthur Henderson
The motives that explained human murder bunched, historically, into three groups: material gain; personal grudge and sociopathy. (Adam Roberts)
Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information that is both unknown to the general public and likely to have had an important effect on a company's stock price. View quote
Alex Berenson
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. View quote
Claude M. Bristol
The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual. View quote
Abbas Kiarostami
From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase. View quote
Alex Campbell