Matter Quotes - Page 165

Relationships, not achievements or the acquisition of things, are what matters most in life.

I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.

In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.

Science boosts its claim to truth by its spectacular ability to make matter and energy jump through hoops on command, and to predict what will happen and when.

Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter.

Pain is only temporary, no matter how long it lasts.

Each person was himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid, always alone. If I should scream, if I should call for help, would anyone hear would it even matter?

our quarrels with the world are like our quarrels with God: no matter how right we are, we are wrong.

Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partizans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters.

The only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody's opinion.

I don't have to forgive you, Cath said. It's not like that with you. You're just in with me. Always. No matter what happens.

Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met.

Doctrine does matter.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Nothing disturbs me more than superficiality and mere sloganizing on matters of public policy, and the suspicion that what the speaker is saying represents the full extent of his knowledge on the subject.

By itself, the question of the liturgy's essence and the standards of the reform has brought us back to the question of music and its position in the liturgy. And as a matter of fact one cannot speak about worship at all without also speaking of the music of worship.

The highest things, the things that really matter, we cannot achieve on our own; we have to accept them as gifts and enter in to the dynamic of the gift, so to speak.

To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.

In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.

But at least he can still see the lights below us. Although maybe for him it doesn't matter.

Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.

How you approach the problem of suffering depends on how you approach life itself. There are only two ways. Either meaning is surrounded by matter, or matter is surrounded by meaning.

There is a spark of good in everybody, no matter how deeply it may be buried. It is the real you.

I will continue to be intelligent, I vowed, no matter how beautiful I become.

All places, no matter where, no matter what, are worth visiting.