Matter Quotes - Page 123

It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.

That is salvation. To give of love inside. To keep love of life, no matter what, and give to others. Generously.

It does not matter if you believe in God, because God believes in you.

Proselytism is tolerated by Hinduism. Any man, whether he be a Shudra or Chandala, can expound philosophy even to a Brahmin. The truth can be learnt from the lowest individual, no matter to what caste or creed he belongs.

Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.

The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.

A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so.

You are a writer when you tell yourself you are. No one else's opinion matters. Screw them. You are when you say you are.

No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.

Awards mean nothing to comedians. What matters is the audience, how you're doing - artistically, for the most part - at that moment.

It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.

I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.

Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.

Details are all that matters; God dwells in these and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right.

I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter.

As people enable themselves to achieve one or two goals for the year that are most meaningful, they will find power, peace of mind, and confidence in their abilities because they have achieved what they set out to accomplish. Your commitment to achieving what matters most will become the foundation for tremendous accomplishments and contributions. You will become the change you seek to make.

If you're not at peace, nothing else matters

What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

No matter what you do in life, someone important to you isn't going to like it.

I was the one that allegedly "quit and joined my old band." That wasn't true. But it was said so matter-of-factly on the Internet that the guys weren't really sure what I was up to.

I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.

We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.

It doesn't matter how much we know, it matters how clearly others can understand what we know.