#material

Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#against #assault #asset #been #essential

Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be? ↗

— Billy Joel

#could #good #how #i #material

It's amazing what you can get on open source now if you actually use the right search engines to find the material. ↗

— Gus O'Donnell

#amazing #engines #find #get #material

My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

#brought #comfort #companions #emotional #fine

I'm more prone to his '70s material, which is what I was around for and watched a lot. I listen to a lot of that stuff. It probably influenced me quite a bit. I'm more drawn to the darker, sadder songs. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#bit #darker #drawn #his #i

Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody. ↗

— Karl Rove

#everybody #greater #life #live #lot

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#because #between #cruel #facts #foes

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#always #appreciated #because #cliches #copies

The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self. ↗

— George Saunders

#being broke #best #between #broke #capitalism

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

#biased #hearing #material #own #reading