Matter Quotes - Page 205

Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.

Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.

Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.

Time matters less than the nature of the people.

It doesn't matter if it's a Republican or a Democrat. If you do the right policies, you get economic growth.

Fathers and mothers,” she found herself saying, “leave their mark, no matter if we’ve known them a lifetime or only a day.

Some wounds should be healed, no matter how much time has passed or how much time is left.

To eat or be eaten, to escape or be takena matter of utmost importance to the one concerned, yet it happens all the time and we don't even notice.

in writing, sex doesn't matter; it's the writing that matters.

... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.

Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.

Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.

Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification.

You really don't have to worry about your spouse, as long as you trust him or her. If you trust your spouse or whoever you're in a relationship with, everybody else doesn't matter.

Ultimately, if you want to make movies, you've got to want to make movies every day, when people are paying you to make movies and when they're not, because you're going to get a lot more no's on this business, no matter what it is, than you are going to get yeses.

We dominate a horse by mind over matter. We could never do it by brute strength.

So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after

I wanted to be consistent with my exercise, so I committed to working out for 30 days in a row, no matter what.

Contrary to popular myth, werewolves myth, werewolves are born, not made. No matter how many times they bite someone, that person will not turn, though they will probably bleed profusely and will definitely be annoyed.

Years ago I read an interview with Paula Fox in which she said that in writing, truth is just as important as story. Reading that interview was the first time I really understood that there's no point in trying to impress people with my cleverness when I can just try to write honestly about what matters most to me.

I actually feel that personal matters, like religion and spirituality, are things that I really discuss only with intimates. I think it's, in a way, like sexuality, something where it touches upon something very private.

It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.

We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.

No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be.

I love wearing trackies to lounge around the house in and the strange thing is, it doesn’t matter how many new ones I get I still tend to feel most comfortable in my old ones.