Matter Quotes - Page 126

Truth is not only a matter of offense, in that it makes certain assertions. It is also a matter of defense in that it must be able to make a cogent and sensible response to the counterpoints that are raised.

If we get it wrong about Jesus, it doesn’t matter what else we get right.

You have no idea if your idea matters until you share it.

Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

No matter what the situation may be, there is always something positive you can do about it.

If your everyday life appears to be unworthy subject matter, do not complain to life. Complain to yourself, Lament that you are not poet enough to call up its wealth.

I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to know me and revealing new passages.

Befriending life is less a matter of knowledge than a question of wisdom. It is not about mastering life, controlling it or exerting our will over it, no matter how well intentioned our will may be. Befriending life is more about harmlessness than it is about control.

The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.

Dear young people, Christ asks you to be wide awake and alert, to see the things in life that really matter.

How often we forget to dedicate ourselves to that which truly matters! We forget that we are children of God.

There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.

I think that you love who you love, and there are people who you love that people aren't going to understand why, and that sort of doesn't really matter.

The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.

Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.

I want people to see some of their own humanity no matter who they are.

Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.

You are what you love, not who loves you... a person who loves has always won, no matter whether or not the love is fulfilled.

The attempt to discover and promulgate the truth is nevertheless an obligation upon all scientists, one that must be persevered in no matter what the rebuffs—for otherwise what is the point in being a scientist?

Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.

Entrepreneurs believe that profit is what matters most in a new enterprise. But profit is secondary. Cash flow matters most.

Whether we like it or not, gender differences matter in a combat situation.

The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing.

While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is, in all of the polls I've seen, the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.