Matter Quotes - Page 197

In this life, no matter what anyone promises you, what allegiances of love or fealty they swear or what gods they pray to, you will never have more than what you have at this moment.

If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K. Christians are illiberal, too.

We have sexual lust even though we know perfectly well that, because we're using contraception, it is not going to result in the propagation of our genes. That doesn't matter, because the lust was built into our brains at a time when there was no contraception.

Gould carried the art of bending over backward to positively supine lengths. Why shouldn't we comment on God, as scientists? ... A universe with a creative superintendent would be a very different kind of universe from one without. Why is that not a scientific matter?

If there are witnesses the government interviewed who suggest other people were involved or that Tim McVeigh was not involved, those are critical matters that would have to be investigated.

Happiness doesn't come from making a fortune and owning lots of possessions. 'Stuff' doesn't bring happiness. Family, friends, good health and the satisfaction that comes from making a positive difference are what really matter.

What can you do to make a difference? And why should you do it? (...) the scale of one's social investments doesn't matter. What matters is that you operate as a force for good at every scale available to you.

What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day; how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.

Just because somebody drops in on you from another dimension, don't assume they're wiser than you about anything at all, or that they can do anything better than you can do yourself. Discarnate or mortal, what matters about people is what they know.

It is my firm belief that action on the issues that matter for Africa must emerge from within Africa itself.

France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.

No matter the good news anywhere else, these nuke-hungry rogue states will provide grounds for bad-mouthing Bush foreign policy.

My dad was a jazz fan and he used to have lots of old 78s, so I grew up with big jazz bands and the likes of Duke Ellington and Count Basie - although I really liked show tunes from those big musicals as well. I've always kept my ears open, as it were, when it comes to music. It doesn't matter to me what type of music it is. If I like it, I'll listen to it.

That's the first time I've been involved in such a big way as a voice actor and this script [Voltron] is very matter of factly.

The truth of the matter is that when you write about religion like I do, you're writing about something that people take very seriously.

Pick something you love and work your ass off, no matter what people say.

Content is more than 'subject matter.' It is all the feelings and ideas you bring to your painting.

There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political.

If you're not comparing apples to apples, it doesn't matter.

I'm at a point in my life where I could make 20 more movies, but I want to make 20 more movies that matter to me.

... to lovers innumerable things do not matter.

You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style

No matter how deeply you come to know a place, you can keep coming back to know it more.

Everyone loves a hero. What we differ on is the question of who the heroes are, because we differ over what matters. And who matters is a function of what matters. [If] what matters is intelligence, the people who matter are the intelligent, and the people who matter the most, the heroes, are the geniuses.

To matter ... Is there any human will deeper than that? ... We don't want to live when we become convinced that we don't, can't, will never matter. ... We no sooner discover that we are than we desperately want that which we are to matter.