Quotes Tagged "material"

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

Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don't give the matter much thought. Others make plans: I'm going to have a husband, a home, two children, a house in the country. As long as they're busy doing that, they're like bulls looking for the bullfighter: they react instinctively, they blunder on, with no idea where the target is. They get their car, sometimes they even get a Ferrari, and they think that's the meaning of life, and they never question it. Yet their eyes betray the sadness that even they don't know they carry in their soul. Are you happy?

COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT I was born the day I thought: What is? What was? And What if? I was transformed the day My ego shattered, And all the superficial, material Things that mattered To me before, Suddenly ceased To matter. I really came into being The day I no longer cared about What the world thought of me, Only on my thoughts for Changing the world.

I was transformed the day My ego shattered, And all the superficial, material Things that mattered To me before, Suddenly ceased To matter.

True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.

The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.

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.

You cannot expect gratitude from people who live in the opportunistic world.

Maybe Time is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.

The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts towards science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the scientist for a highbrow, at another anathematizes him for blasphemously undermining his religion; but at the mention of a name like Edison he falls into a coma of veneration. When he stops to think, he does recognize, however, that the whole atmosphere of the world in which he lives is tinged by science, as is shown most immediately and strikingly by our modern conveniences and material resources. A little deeper thinking shows him that the influence of science goes much farther and colors the entire mental outlook of modern civilised man on the world about him.

I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people.

Most importantly I never sent classified material on my email and I never received any that was marked classified.

Leaking of classified material is a concern.

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

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

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

Material things are delightful, but they're not important.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

You cannot disconnect the form from the material - the material informs the form.