#material

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

#around #color #effect #feel #how

Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do. ↗

— Daniel Baldwin

#chance #had #homicide #i #material

I do like directing other people's material. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#i #i do #like #material #other

Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon. ↗

— Flavius Josephus

#found #his #man #materials #now

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material. ↗

— Natasha Richardson

#comedy #darker #drawn #get #i

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#luxury #materialism #age

If you’re an Orthodox believer, then what sustains this framework is the obligation that you follow. But if you live in a democratic, liberal world whose motto is: “Make choices and manage your choices according to what is good for you,” then there is a built-in tension between that which connects and that which divides. Between the material and the intellectual or ethical. Materialism is not a dirty word, but in this tension between the individual and the material on the one hand, and the communal and the ethical on the other, we are at the end of an age in which the material and the individual are triumphing. ↗

— Kalid Gilad

#ethics-and-moral-philosophy #judaism #materialism #otherness #progressives

Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#fallen-nations #futility #inevitability #knowledge #learning

I’ve often wondered where Jesus would apply His hastily made whip if He were to visit our culture. My guess is that it would not be money-changing tables in the temple that would feel His wrath, but the display racks in Christian bookstores. ↗

— R.C. Sproul

#jesus #materialism #retail #change

The shame and the downfall of a modern materialistic society is her inability to treasure, care for, admire, adore, cherish, value, revere, respect, uphold, uplift, protect, shield, defend, safeguard, treasure and love her children. I praise all the cultures of this world that naturally harbor and actively manifest these instincts. If a nation or if a population of people fails to recognize the excellent value and distinction of the lives of her children and is defective enough to have lost the capability of expressing and acting upon these instincts then there is nothing that can save that nation or those people. The prosperity of a people is not measured in banks, financial markets, economy and the death of its humanity is evident not through the loss of life but in the loss of love for its children. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#child #children #death-of-a-nation #love-for-children #materialism