Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
Fred Allen

The word of man is the most durable of all material.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
Sai Baba

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
Denis Waitley

I have an orthopedic pillow that's made out of a sponge material. I have a plate in my throat, and I have to be careful or I could end up with a bad neck in the morning. That pillow is a must everywhere I go.
Lee Trevino

I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.
Dane Cook

Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy.
Adam Sandler

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
Susan Sontag

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
Gore Vidal

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
Gore Vidal

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.
Desmond Tutu

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.
Meryl Streep

There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.
Meryl Streep

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.
Morihei Ueshiba

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
William James

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
James Joyce