Top Material Quotes

A house is never small or empty, when filled with love.

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...

Material Definition

(a.) Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

(a.) Hence: Pertaining to, or affecting, the physical nature of man, as distinguished from the mental or moral nature; relating to the bodily wants, interests, and comforts.

(a.) Of solid or weighty character; not insubstantial; of cinsequence; not be dispensed with; important.

(a.) Pertaining to the matter, as opposed to the form, of a thing. See Matter.

(n.) The substance or matter of which anything is made or may be made.

(v. t.) To form from matter; to materialize.

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

We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.

It's not the appearance that makes a man, it's the man that makes an appearance.

Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.

Leadership obeys the principle of Hooke's law to the very bone. It explains:When an elastic material is stretched, it returns to its original position. But when it's over stretched beyond its limit po...

Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.

Unfortunately, we do not often see the advantages in the power of values and virtues. We are easily taken away by physical wealth, material possessions and the power of money.

The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged.

When we were together before, the world was small to us, but as you grew bigger to life and the world became desirous to living, we became smaller to each other.

Money spent, will never out value spent time.

It's the giving that makes one stronger, but sometimes the taking can make one weaker, if even vulnerable or blinding.

I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper.

It takes time, or does time take it?

A child learns to be guilty when he is punished and scolded for damaging material objects

Learning is crucial if you want to remain special and material

Sell your materials but save your morals.

Material blessings fade and deteriorate, but your riches in Christ are everlasting.

Funny how money speaks even more loudly than morals in this beautiful, superficial material world.