Matter Quotes - Page 199

Him [my dad] bringing me to the clubhouse when I was young helped me out because I see what they do in baseball and what it's about. He pretty much told me all this stuff when I was younger. Now it's just a matter of doing it.

It's always fun to play the innocent, no matter what you're doing. If you feel like you're doing the right thing, you can get away with a lot comedically. I had definitely missed not having a conscience.

The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater.

I'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page with nothing else. I was also finding within poetry I felt a lot more free to write about very different matters, to write about social issues or things that are going on around me.

There is a thread connecting you no matter how far away you are from someone and you know I have two or three relationships in my life that are like that.

We will not conquer our obstacles by running away from them. Speed does not matter, just that we do not stop.

I'm far from believing that we've solved the problem of violence in the 20th century and that's why I'm not discouraged that we still have the Biafras and the Northern Irelands and the East Pakistans and, for that matter, violence in American or Canadian cities.

Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right?

There's so much visible stuff around now, we're tempted to forget that it's usually the invisible that matters most.

The truth is the last thing that matters,' she said. 'And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.

It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What’d you choose to do with yours?

Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.

The judgment of the world stands upon matter of fortune.

How can one say, 'No, this isn't a part of life,' since it always is? The contaminant of sex, the redeeming corruption that de-idealizes the species and keeps us everlastingly mindful of the matter we are.

From what we are, spirit; from what we do, matter. Matter and spirit are one.

It doesn't matter how rich you are - you know when you're being ripped off.

My door remains always open to all constituents to discuss matters of concern to them.

Your medium has to be alive to you, no matter what you do.

I love whom I love," Prince Lir repeated firmly. "You have no power over anything that matters.

Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.

History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts.

Over the years I've tried to be clear about the things that are important in life, the things that matter, and I've tried to pursue them, and, I've had a certain sense of 'stickability,' hanging in there, and I suppose that's me.

This isn't about 'causality' but about 'influence'. The evidence is clear that human-induced climate change is influencing the drought, no matter the cause.

Unless you're one of the five billionaires out there who don't have to worry about anything, every aspect of everything is stressful, no matter what your job is.

Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant