Material Quotes

“And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“One day you will realize that material things mean nothing. All that matters is the well-being of the people you love in your life.”
― Leon Brown

“Love people. Use things. The opposite never works.”
― The Minimalists

“A house is never small or empty, when filled with love.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Content, I am not interested in that at all. I don't give a damn what the film is about. I am more interested in how to handle the material so as to create an emotion in the audience. I find too many people are interested in the content. If you were painting a still life of some apples on a plate, it's like you'd be worrying whether the apples were sweet or sour. Who cares?”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“You think the things you can touch and feel are the things that are real, but they are not. Over time, they all get old and decline. The people, the houses, the rocks and the mountains: one day they will all crumble. This is because they are not as real as the things that last forever. It is another one of the lessons we come to teach.”
― Kate McGahan, Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: A Dog's Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal

“However completely people might fulfil themselves in other spheres, if they don’t possess this understanding between their hands and material objects, they can never have more than an incomplete understanding of the world.”
― Madeleine Bourdouxhe, À la recherche de Marie

“And when the earth began to rumble and quake, as fear and frantic set in, he ran back inside the house past his wife and children, gathering all the valuables and things he thought of importance, and ran back to his car packing away. After making two trips in and out, he waited in the car for his family to come out, in fear they darted through the darkness and pelting cold rain. When everything calmed down, and the house was intact and safe, he returned putting everything back in its place, had the kids go to bed, told his wife he loves her and turned off the light.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Funny how money speaks even more loudly than morals in this beautiful, superficial material world.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“After reading Burgum, [Patricia Highsmith] wrote in her cahier that, like Kafka, she felt she was a pessimist, unable to formulate a system in which an individual could believe in God, government or self. Again like Kafka, she looked into the great abyss which separated the spiritual and the material and saw the terrifying emptiness, the hollowness, at the heart of every man, a sense of alienation she felt compelled to explore in her fiction. As her next hero, she would take an architect, 'a young man whose authority is art and therefore himself,' who when he murders, 'feels no guilt or even fear when he thinks of legal retribution'. The more she read of Kafka the more she felt afraid as she came to realise, 'I am so similar to him.”
― Andrew Wilson, Patricia Highsmith, ζωή στο σκοτάδι

“We can fill our lives with ‘stuff,’ but as we do we’re concurrently filling our lives with the obligation to maintain that ‘stuff.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Matter and Spirit are intertwined in creation at this plane of existence and both are non existent without each other.To live one, the other has to be lived. It is the obsessive attachment to the material world, which is seen as an impediment....when one can see nothing beyond it”
― Anupama Garg, The Tantric Curse

“The dining-room was curiously impersonal, like all places where people eat,—perhaps because food is our chief link with the common chaos of matter rolling about us.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

“The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Try handling different material... for different results.”
― Deyth Banger

“He explained that often times it's the love of something- like money, material, possessions, or power-and the fear of losing them, that command people to act. That love and fear are really the only two things that can forever alter a person, whether for the better or worse.”
― J. Saman, Start Over

“When we break 5M’s of Manufacturing Efficiency - Men, Machine, Materials, Methods & Money to personal level, the first two M’s will spell Minutes & Mind, and rest remain constant!”
― Sandeep Sahajpal

“A child learns to be guilty when he is punished and scolded for damaging material objects”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Time is the raw material from which life itself is made”
― Sunday Adelaja, No One Is Better Than You

“The worst of me is the raw material from which God molds the best of me.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To be focused on acquiring material things is to forfeit blessings associated with eternal reward”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Time is the material from which life is made”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Time is the raw material from which money is made.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“Time is the raw material from which products are made, when products are sold, money is made.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“Money is a by-product of time. Money is the time that is well converted. Therefore, time is the raw material from which money is made.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“Advanced civilizations are recognizable by their elevated contributions to humanity, not by unjustly exploited material technological manifestations.”
― T.F. Hodge

“An expensive car is material in nature, but driving it does not necessarily make us materialist, just as sitting in a church does not make us spiritual.”
― Joseph Rain, The Unfinished Book About Who We Are

“You cannot expect gratitude from people who live in the opportunistic world.”
― Giridhar Alwar, My Quest For Happy Life

“It is important to have faith in life to connect to the fellow human beings as much as we need rational mind to understand the material world. It is unwise to drop all faiths just because faiths have been misused by some ignorant people. We have to see the positive impact of faiths and beliefs in the society and in the life of billions of people who are believers. Only by balancing our rational and faithful mind, we can find perfect life in this world.”
― Awdhesh Singh, Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

“Moral values are changing with a change in social outlook. We are frustrated today because we use old definitions of morality for the modern world. We want people to be moral as well as modern which is a difficult goal to achieve in practice. The loss of old standards of morality is the price we have to pay to achieve more freedom, more equality and more material prosperity.”
― Awdhesh Singh, Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth