Matter Quotes - Page 160

You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying.

No matter what you have done to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day.

The drawing and the crafting of the story are fun, but it's the overall meaning that matters to me. It might escape some people who just want to read a comic, and that's fine. The overall meaning is what matters.

Don't go to eighth grade...don't talk about something old...don't bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY.

I never lost confidence in myself, no matter what the years were like or the results.

I know I can act and it doesn't matter where you come from.

What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.

I do a film if it interests me, has a connect with the audience and some entertainment value. The rest doesn't matter.

Wherever the Gospel is preached, no matter how crudely, there are bound to be results.

Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.

Hurricanes are dangerous things, and they're no fun to go through. And if you come out of it in one piece and your house comes out of in one piece, it's no fun living with no electricity for a day or a week, a month, whatever it is. And I speak, unfortunately, from personal experience on that matter.

Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

As a writer, the most important thing for me is to continue to write, no matter where I am.

No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.

With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

No matter what I've written, someone somewhere has come up to me and said, "Me too." The truth can be offensive, but it's always nourishing, in a way. You recognize it. You can feel it. And even if [readers] think, "My god, I would never get in those situations," within those ridiculous circumstances that I have created for myself, they know the way I respond is probably what they would do too.

I remember, no matter how impossible it seemed that any given day would end, it always did. This one would, too.

It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

There are very few things that can be proved rigorously in condensed matter physics.