Matter Quotes - Page 198

The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe.

No matter what you achieve in life, you're always wondering, 'Is there something I should be doing? Is there something I'm missing?

At the end of the day, a television, a computer, or a smart phone is just a device through which one can access content. The content itself is what matters, not the device.

Find the best in everybody, no matter how long you have to wait for them to show it

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors.

My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.

Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is of no use to show us more planets and systems. We know already what matter is, and more or less of it does not signify.

What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.

If you're ninety-five percent of the way to outstanding success, doesn't it make sense to go the additional five percent of the way? ... A marathon which takes hours to run, can be won or lost by a matter of seconds.

The military gave me structure and process. That reflects on the way I believe we should handle legislative matters. If we do it that way in any field, the results are usually better.

I have always been the type of person to want to reach a goal no matter how far-fetched it was.

As a matter of fact, if we could communicate the truth, not only to the Hispanics but to the black population, all blacks should be Republican, and all Hispanics should be Republican.

There's pressure, but that's true no matter who you are or what you do.

What matters is the face you show the world, not the quaking mess behind it.

Be yourself and you will find, who minds doesn't matter and who matters won't mind.

no matter how hard and faithfully we may try we can never compensate another for some lack in his or her life.

It's over when you decide it's over," Norah says. "When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky. That has nothing to do with us.

We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the ticking, we are the pulsing, we are underneath every part of this moment. And by making the moment our own, we are rendering it timeless. There is no audience. There are no instruments. There are only bodies and thoughts and murmurs and looks. It's the concert rush to end all concert rushes, because this is what matters. When the heart races, this is what it's racing towards.

I think I'd fall for you no matter what, Claire. You're kind of awesome.

You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

It's not a matter of whether or not someone's watching over you. It's just a question of their intentions.

To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.

The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.