Matter Quotes - Page 105

As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.

We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?

It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues or moral habits that religion is supposed to instill in us. But we should be equally concerned with the intellectual habits it discourages.

The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it.

There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out, straining reason, they then publish to the world matter of contention and jangling.

What dependence can I have on the alleged events of ancient history, when I find such difficulty in ascertaining the truth regarding a matter that has taken place only a few minutes ago, and almost in my own presence!

The market is the only critic that matters.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.

With success comes a lot of failure, and it doesn't matter how many times you fall it just depends on how you get up and keep succeeding.

Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn out well, but the conviction that what you are doing makes sense, no matter how things turn out.

I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

I look at myself and pick out the things I don't like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area.

There is value in everybody's gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.

If you ever hear yourself or anyone you care about starting to express the belief that a problem is permanent, it’s time to immediately shake that person loose. No matter what happens in your life, you’ve got to be able to believe, 'This, too, shall pass,' and that if you keep persisting, you’ll find a way.

Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan.

It doesn't matter what product or service you're offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.

Maybe it's a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk.

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

No matter how well you do, no matter how successful you are, they're always going to criticize you.

Once you get used to being treated like you matter, it's hard to uproot and move somewhere where you don't.

Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter.

Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.

Our whole life is a meditation of our last decision - the only decision that matters.