Matter Quotes - Page 157

There comes a time in life when you just buckle down and have a good time with what you're doing. It doesn't matter much what you're doing. What matters is how you do it.

The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.

No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me.

But, as always, Mr. Rooney would come over and shake your hand and congratulate you on a good game, no matter what the situation was.

No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates everything.

There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.

Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter of smell and instinct.

to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.

Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced. That is why there exist contemplative souls who have lived more intensely, more widely, more tumultuously than others who have lived their lives purely externally. The end result is what matters. What one felt was what one experienced. One retires to bed as wearily from having dreamed as from having done hard physical labor. One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard.

You see, when you're young and foolish it doesn't matter where you may be, you always think that you'll be happier somewhere else.

One day I realized, without God, nothing matters. So, I asked Him into my heart.

How a club is run is what matters to me. The fewer board members, the better. If it's 18, I'm just not interested.

Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now.

I do not want you ever to initiate any action for any refunds of taxes without first consulting me and presenting the matter fully to me so that I may judge whether it is an honorable and ethical action to take, not simply legally, but according to my own personal standards.

Being one point ahead at the end - that's all that matters.

Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.

It doesn't matter where the ball is or what the situation is. I can look around to the guys on my left and right, and know that they are ready to go.

Sexual assault is neither a ‘light’ nor ‘fluffy’ matter, and we cannot treat it as if it were.

No matter what you do each day...or in life...doing things God's way is a matter of the heart.

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

It is not what you say that matters. It is what you are and how you live.

You have to have already convinced yourself that you are going to win no matter what other influences are.

In the matter of faith, we have the added weight of hope to that of reason in the convictions which we sustain relating to a future state.

Algebra goes to the heart of the matter at it ignores the casual nature of particular cases.

Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.