Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?
Chester W. Nimitz

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.
Denzel Washington

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.
Lewis Mumford

I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of my material; which apparently at the beginning - though I never really intended it to be - was man hating and now is just a bit more cuddly.
Jo Brand

Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.
Marilyn vos Savant

Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
Jean Piaget

A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.
Mickey Rourke

We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.
John Naisbitt

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.
Bruce Springsteen

If you see me on Friday, you'll see different material on Saturday night.
Kathy Griffin

I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.
Gottfried Leibniz

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
John Updike

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
Friedrich August von Hayek

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
Imelda Marcos

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.
Tadao Ando

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.
Barbara de Angelis

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
William S. Burroughs

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.
Stella Adler

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.
Keanu Reeves

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles Kettering