Raw Materials famous quotes
03-28-2025
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Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
-- Aldo Leopold -
EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
-- Arnold Bennett -
Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.
-- Arnold Bennett -
Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.
-- Barbara Amiel -
The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.
-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth -
Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.
-- Bruce Chatwin -
We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.
-- Cecil Rhodes -
Data are becoming the new raw material of business.
-- Craig Mundie -
Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material.
-- Dorothy Richardson -
Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.
-- Eric Hobsbawm -
A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.
-- Eric Hoffer -
The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that the finished work might contain this life inside it and offer it to the reader. The essence will not be, of course, the same thing as the raw material; it is not even of the same family of things. The novel is something that never was before and will not be again.
-- Eudora Welty -
Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.
-- Francine Prose -
Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.
-- Frank Herbert -
The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have plenty of material for the task.
-- G. H. Hardy -
I found I'm quite happy working on a sentence for an hour or more, searching for the right phrase, the right word. I compare it to the work of a stone cutter - chipping away at the raw material until it's just right, or as right as you can get it.
-- Harriet Doerr -
Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.
-- Helen Gurley Brown -
One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited
-- Hjalmar Schacht -
If these assets were set up as a revolving fund with which Japan could import raw materials for its industries, Japanese exports could again enter the channels of world trade-and Japanese workers would have employment and something to eat.
-- James Forrestal -
The right raw materials can...double or triple the protective power of the immune system,
-- Joel Fuhrman -
A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable.
-- John Bates Clark -
Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products.
-- John Engler -
Software production is like any other production the preceded it, no raw materials are required, no time is required and no effort is required, you can make a million Copies of Software instantaneously for free and its very unique about that.
-- John McAfee -
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
-- Jorge Luis Borges -
Other creatures receive food simply as fodder. But we take the raw materials of the earth and work with them—touch them, manipulate them, taste them, glory in their heady smells and colors, and then, through a bit of alchemy, transform them into delicious creations.
-- Judith Jones -
The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material.
-- Karl Marx -
Faith was the raw material substance that the Spirit of God used to form the universe.
-- Kenneth Copeland -
Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.
-- Lawrence Durrell -
How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.
-- Lawrence Durrell -
A citizen of an advanced industrialized nation consumes in six months the energy and raw materials that have to last the citizen of a developing country his entire lifetime.
-- Maurice Strong -
Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
-- Maxim Gorky -
This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.
-- Michael Cunningham -
I mean, it's like we all get our raw materials from our families―but it's up to us whether we build bridges or bombs.
-- Neal Shusterman -
And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.
-- Neil Gaiman -
Audacious faith is the raw material that authentic Christianity is made of. It's the stuff that triggers ordinarily level-headed people like you and me to start living with unusual boldness.
-- Steven Furtick -
Humanity stands ... before a great problem of finding new raw materials and new sources of energy that shall never become exhausted. In the meantime we must not waste what we have, but must leave as much as possible for coming generations.
-- Svante Arrhenius -
I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.
-- Sylvia Plath -
Being an artist is not just about what happens when you are in the studio. The way you live, the people you choose to love and the way you love them, the way you vote, the words that come out of your mouth... will also become the raw material for the art you make.
-- Teresita Fernandez -
You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
-- Warren G. Bennis -
Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know.
-- Willem Dafoe -
It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.
-- William Ernest Henley -
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
-- William S. Burroughs -
The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most and imposes damage on the overwhelming majority, while asking it to change.
-- Yann Arthus-Bertrand -
If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
-- Yusuf Hamied -
Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships.
-- Alexis Tsipras -
We have military bases all over the world, and that's purely to protect our portfolio abroad.Our investments, and our production, our exploitation of cheap labor and raw materials. We're on the scene to do that, and the military is there to see that it happens.
-- Philip Berrigan -
There’s an inherent message in my work relating to recycling and the nature of value, but my artistic inspiration is fired by the qualities within the raw materials… I come across many things which have been abandoned and find something more in them than their intrinsic worthlessness.
-- Ptolemy -
I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.
-- Imre Kertész
