Material Things Quotes - Page 4

• By a lot of peoples standards, I lived a very privileged life. I never wanted for attention, I never wanted for material things. In some ways, I was probably spoiled because I never had to share. And I was doted on.

  Catherine Tate

  Way, Attention, Spoiled

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• What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.

  Ann Bridge

  Advertising, Virtue, Modern

  Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.178, A&C Black

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• Material things aren't important to me.

  Troy Polamalu

  Important, Materials

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• Everything I wanted before, I want twice as much now. And that doesn't mean material things; it means to explore more, to think more. Being an artist doesn't start because you're 21, and it doesn't end because you're 51. You are who you are until the day you die.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Mean, Artist, Thinking

  "Jennifer Lopez: I Would Never Have In Vitro, I’m ‘Hyper J Lo’ Now", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I came to the conclusion is that we have a very shallow view of human nature in the policy world. We're really good at talking about material things, really bad at talking about emotions, really good at stuff we can count, really bad at the deeper stuff that actually drives behavior.

  David Brooks

  Views, Talking, World

  "David Brooks: From Spouses to Sofas, Emotions Tell Us What to Value". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 8, 2011.

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• We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.

  Euell Gibbons

  Spiritual, People, Able

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• Never will I pray for the material things of the world. I am not calling to a servant to bring me food. I am not ordering an innkeeper to provide me with room. Never will I seek delivery of gold, love, good health, petty victories, fame, success, or happiness. Only for guidance will I pray, that I may be shown the way to acquire these things, and my prayer will always be answered.

  Og Mandino

  Prayer, Victory, Gold

  Og Mandino (1998). “The Greatest Gift in the World”, Frederick Fell Publishers

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• Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material things. They have increased the standards of living and comfort. They have eliminated infinite drudgery. They have increased leisure. But that gives more time for devilment. The work of science has eliminated much disease and suffering. It has increased the length of life. That, together with increase in productivity, has resulted in vastly increased populations. Also it increased the number of people engaged in devilment.

  Herbert Hoover

  Life, Science, Animal

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• My voice is the only material thing in which I can still reveal myself. Go ahead and cut off the hand or the testicles of a voice. Try to find the head of a voice, the orifice through which it passes, or even the breasts to which you can attach the clips of your electrodes. Nothing. Resonant tooth.

  Abdellatif Laabi

  Cutting, Hands, Voice

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• I am thinking, therefore I exist. (...) I was a substance whose whole essence or nature is solely to think, and which does not require any place, or depend on any material thing, in order to exist. Accordingly this 'I' - that is, the soul by which I am what I am - is entirely distinct from the body, and indeed is easier to know than the body, and would not fail to be whatever it is, even if the body did not exist.

  Rene Descartes

  Thinking, Order, Essence

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• Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings.

  Tracy Chapman

  Renounce, Misinterpretation, Materials

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• Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things-though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside.

  Jess C Scott

  Money, Knowing, Riches

  Jess C. Scott (2011). “The Other Side of Life (Book #1, Cyberpunk Elven Trilogy)”, p.9, Jess C Scott

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• Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.

  Alfred Marshall

  Rights, Benefits, Use

  Alfred Marshall (2010). “Principles of Economics”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We talk about the American Dream, and want to tell the world about the American Dream, but what is that Dream, in most cases, but the dream of material things? I sometimes think that the United States for this reason is the greatest failure the world has ever seen.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Dream, Thinking, United States

  Eugene O'Neill, Mark W. Estrin (1990). “Conversations with Eugene O'Neill”, p.230, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Wars are generally fought for material things; they're not fought over ideals. After we get into them, we are told we are fighting for ideals. We are fighting for oil and tin and rubber and markets, and as long as we insist on a standard of life that is so high above all the rest of the world, we're going to have to pay for our standard of living with a lot of blood. I think we ought to re-examine the fact that Jesus was a pauper, and we should be committing ourselves to a very humble, simple way of life.

  Clarence Jordan

  Jesus, War, Humble

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• I think we're inevitably going to be depressed when we focus the major part of our energy and attention on something that doesn't give us meaning, only material things.

  Sam Keen

  Thinking, Giving, Focus

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Art, Literature, World

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.84, Best Books on

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• For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new uses of corporations, banks and securities, new machinery of industry and agriculture, of labor and capital - all undreamed of by the Fathers - the whole structure of modern life was impressed into this royal service.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Father, Agriculture, Civilization

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

  Robert Kennedy

  Long, Community, Excellence

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• We must be able to appreciate and enjoy the places where we tarry and yet pass on without anguish when we are called elsewhere. In our spiritual development we are often required to pull up roots many times and to close many chapters in our lives until we are no longer attached to any material thing and can love all people without any attachment to them.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Attachment, Roots

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.19, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Difficulties with material things often come to remind us that our concentration should be on spiritual things instead of material things. Sometimes difficulties of the body come to show that the body is just a transient garment, and that the reality is the indestructible essence which activates the body. But when we can say, 'Thank God for problems which are sent for our spiritual growth.' They are no longer problems. They then become opportunities.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Reality

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.60, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• If we could put material things into their proper place, and use them without being attached to them, how much freer we would be. Then we wouldn't burden ourselves with things we don't need. If we could only realize that we are all cells in the same body of humanity - then we would think of having enough for all, not too much for some and too little for others.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Thinking, Cells, Humanity

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.153, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Nobody's about saving anymore. No one cares about a rainy day anymore. Nobody saves up enough for even an umbrella for a rainy day. It's sad. It really is a new form of slavery. We used to work to be able to afford material things. Now we work for these things. They're the boss. That house you can't afford, that car that's out of your price range, that cellphone that drains your bank account - that's your boss.

  Chris Rock

  Rainy Day, Car, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Solicitude for material things distracts the soul and divides it. The devil seizes the divided soul and drags it to hell.

  Anthony

  Soul, Devil, Hell

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• These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as the objects of REFLECTION, are to me the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.

  John Locke

  Reflection, Ideas, Two

  1690 Essay Concerning Human Understanding, bk.2, pt.1, section 4.

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