“Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?” GivingBookOne ThingMaterialsPeriodsNewsNewspapersTeenagerSmarterPublishersTime Periods Author:Tamora Pierce
“A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.” IfsThinkingUseTurnsOne ThingMaterialsReaderSomedayWiser Book:Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade Source: Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
“Of one thing the executive may be sure: that the majority want more of the good things of life, and if they can get them without undue personal effort, so much the better. So the executive naturally tends to promise material gain, contingent of course on his remaining in power. The impetus to personal rule is obvious.” IfsWantMayCoursesEffortOne ThingMaterialsPromiseGainsMajorityGood ThingsObviousExecutivesPresidencyImpetus Author:Felix Morley
“It is only necessary to seek one thing: to be with Jesus. The man who remains with Jesus is rich, even if he is poor with regard to material things. Who ever desires the earthly more than the heavenly loses both the earthly and the heavenly. But whoever seeks the heavenly is Lord of the whole world.” IfsMenWorldInspirationalWholeChristianDesireJesusLosesReligiousPoorLordRichOne ThingHe ManMaterialsRegardRemainsWhole WorldHeavenlyOrthodoxMaterial Things Author:Ignatius Bryanchaninov
“When you're faced with a choice, remember this: Everything else will pass away. Your family. Your friends. Your material possessions. Your beauty. Your youth. Your life. And there is only one thing that remains. Ask yourself: Which are you chasing?” RememberChoicesAsksOne ThingYouthMaterialsRemainsPossessionOur FamilyChasingPassing AwayMaterial Possessions Author:Yasmin Mogahed
“The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.” WorldEyeLosesOne ThingMaterialsAnd LoveOne Thing After Another Book:The letters of George Santayana Source: The letters of George Santayana
“That is a horrible thing in a way, but it is the one thing poets can bring back to experience, this intense focus on language, which activates words as a portal back into experience. It's a mysterious process that's very hard to articulate, because it's focused entirely on the material of language in a way, but in the interests not just of language itself whatever that would mean - that's the mistake, by the way, that so many so-called "experimental" poets make - but in service to human experience.” WayHumansMeanHardLanguageProcessInterestMistakeFocusOne ThingPoetMaterialsFocusedIntenseHorribleMysteriousHuman ExperiencePortalHorrible ThingsActivate Author:Matthew Zapruder