Matter Quotes - Page 140

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win.

Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.

There's something about a roof isn't there? It makes you feel like it doesn't matter what's going on below. All of those things that get in the way of your dreams - you're above them. Anything is possible.

In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.

Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches (often at gunpoint) to other nations he is nearly the only person now writing who assumes a single standard of international morality not for rhetorical effect, but as a matter of habitual, practically instinctual conviction.

Life is either a reproducible, almost commonplace manifestation of matter, given certain conditions, or a miracle. Too many steps are involved to allow for something in between.

The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president.

Things that matter in this life can not be bought. Friends, truth, and a passion for life.

I always pretend like I'm nervous no matter what. I try to fall asleep.

I think what makes you feel so connected with certain writers isn't a matter of autobiographical detail, but that the emotions are real. The way some writers are able to channel themselves through the form.

Everybody's going through a lot of stress these days, no matter how well off you are and how many advantages you have, it's a stressful time in everybody's lives.

If you ask me, it doesn't matter what life you're living, life never has a solution. No matter how hard the struggles are that you leave behind, new struggles always take their place.

No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for 'Before Coffee'.

The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.

Convictions are a matter of choice, not force.

I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

Anytime you have anyone who thinks he or she has God in their pocket, you have the potential for disaster, ... Throughout history, the claim that God is on your side has been used to justify any action, no matter how violent or destructive.

The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy.

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's.

It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.

Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason.