Matter Quotes - Page 139

When your body says 'no,' it doesn't matter how big your heart is.

Have you noticed that the astronomers and mathematicians are much the most cheerful people of the lot? I suppose that perpetually contemplating things on so vast a scale makes them feel either that it doesn't matter a hoot anyway, or that anything so large and elaborate must have some sense in it somewhere.

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.

I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.

No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't.

It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.

No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

No matter how many times you have slipped or fallen, rise up... You are stronger than you realize.

I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough.

You forget about it whether it was 15-2 or 3-2. It's still a loss. It doesn't matter what the score was if we win tomorrow.

Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.

I can do what I need to do. I can get where I want to go, no matter how hard it is.

Nothing is going to happen to me, or you, for that matter. Anything can happen, though. Anything can happen. But most always, just normal things happen, and people have happy lives.

Everybody goes through some tough times in their life, no matter what you do. Man, I've had my tough times.

In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter.

No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes.

It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,' she said. It seems to be true,' he admitted. 'I wonder why.' Because it makes one feel so small and insignificant. It has been rising forever and will rise forever no matter what we do or do not do. All our problems are as nothing to the sun.

This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default-setting, which is to be deeply and literally self-centered, and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self.

I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

What matters is how many times you get up.

Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.

Nothing is the matter with Mr. Gore except that he can't be elected.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.