Top 24 Quotes About Not Being Materialistic
#1. The prospect of being immortal doesn't excite me, but the prospect of being a materialistic idol for four years does appeal.
Marc Bolan
#2. Whatever might happen in life, whether I liked it or didn't like it, I could know one thing for sure: it would change. There was absolute certainty in uncertainty, in some ways an enormous comfort.
Steph Davis
#3. This, then, is the freedom for which Christ has set us free: to have the law of Christ engraved on our hearts. His way is the perfect law, which is the law of liberty (James 1:25).
R. R. Reno
#4. He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
Leo Tolstoy
#5. She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It's good or it's bad. I liked it or I didn't. No discussions of the writing, the themes, the nuances, the structure. Just good or bad.
Gillian Flynn
#6. If, in monotheism, God is man, man is God. Why does God look suspiciously like the ruling class? Why is Jesus, a Jewish guy from the Middle East, blond and blue-eyed? There
Gloria Steinem
#7. Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them.
Michel De Montaigne
#8. Sometimes we can't see the relevance of Jesus Christ until we become dissatisfied with the world and realise that there must be more to life than working 9 to 5, buying and accumulating expensive 'things'and being attractive to members of the opposite sex.
Tim Crawshaw
#10. People may feel that I am materialistic, ideal, idiot, cool, funny. Its not their perception but my projection and I always have my own reasons for my being.
Giridhar Alwar
#11. God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut
Alexander Graham Bell
#12. Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts.
Ayn Rand
#13. I would say I don't like people who are really into themselves or are very materialistic. Just always talking themselves up. Not being real is the pet peeve. Be true to yourself.
Austin Stowell
#14. The happiest people are not the ones with the best or the most things, but those who most appreciate what they have.
Oliver Gaspirtz
#15. [On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
#16. Hopefully Andy Carroll has only tweeted his hamstring.
Sam Allardyce
#17. When someone acknowledges you for something that they think about you, it's a huge compliment.
Michelle Yeoh
#18. Information is a business in itself. It is also something that has made control impossible ... you cannot get customers to accept prices in one place when they know there's a better deal elsewhere. It's a whole new world.
Walter Wriston
#19. I swore I'd never be the girlfriend who spies on her boyfriend's phone, but tough shit. I'm her today.
Allie Everhart
#20. Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.
Jane Mayer
#21. We need to undergo a very radical revolution in values. And we need to think about what it's like to have become so materialistic that we think having a good job, and consuming like crazy to compensate for the dehumanization of the job, is living like a human being.
Grace Lee Boggs
#22. Real success is not, like, materialistic. It's being where you want to be when you want to be; just living your life how you feel; having an ultimate goal and being able to accomplish it.
Lindsey Wixson
#23. I'm not against people buying clothes; I think clothes are wonderful, and I'm very materialistic myself - but there's a way of finding a compromise. I just think we can buy less and pay more, to make sure people aren't being exploited.
Lily Cole
#24. Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
Walter Isaacson
