Antimaterialist Quotes & Sayings

We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What do you get if a huge hairy monster steps on Batman and Robin? A: Flatman and Ribbon! — Johnny B. Laughing

While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

But while the surface has the sun, I would much rather be down here with you. — Aimee Carter

It's the color scheme of that first afternoon - that white panorama full of potential, that threshold white - that Marina understands as whomise. And that's what she's trying to recreate now, a year and a bit later, with a series of expensive light bulbs. 'White light,' the packaging promised. She fits them one by one throughout the house, and unbeknown to her, choreographs the slow dance of light-over-puddle in the passageway. — Laia Jufresa

She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful. — Charles Dickens

The essence of building your own brand. People having heard of you - and having a positive impression - before you've even met them. If you can create that effect, doors open for you. A close second, if that's not possible, is people getting a good impression of o very quickly when they Google you — Michael Ellsberg

Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime. — Edward Abbey

Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off - all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms ... That's how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears. — Homer

For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time. — Amy Hempel

The brain could go just about anywhere with anything. — Kristen Heitzmann

The "great tradition" does not brook even the possibility of libidinal gratification between the pages as an end in itself, and FR Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. — F.R. Leavis

Where do shadows fall when there is only light. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses — F Scott Fitzgerald