Matter Quotes - Page 233

It was then that I realized that while playing the well-meaning tolerant individual (in short: liberal) garnered you fans and grades, it didn't matter. In my heart and head, I was a fraud.

Dear, if you are dead or alive, I will still love you no matter what.

I was born a writer. When that happens, you have no choice in the matter.

God, or what have you, will not be found at the far end of a syllogism, no matter how brilliantly phrased or conceived.

Gentlemen are not supposed to tell the truth about their sex lives, nor are ladies, for that matter. Of course Clinton lied - as would anybody in his position.

In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.

What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.

Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising of extremes in order to achieve that notorious half loaf which the passionate and the outraged never find sufficient.

Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.

We live in terribly complex times. We are confronted by very serious problems. Some of us are faced with sickness, with economic difficulties, with worry and concern over many matters. Our refuge, our peace, our well-being lie in walking in the way of the Lord.

It’s true, isn’t it? Then what else really matters?

All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be anyone's mirror.

It's a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that's not the same as being responsible for something.

No matter how hard I worked, whatever I accomplished was attributed to my looks. If you're working your ass off, then you don't want to be told that you only got whatever because of the way you look. It takes the heart out of you.

The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

Your personal choices matter. And you have the power. Use it.

Family has always been the number one priority no matter what happens anywhere else.

Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship.

Good roles are hard to find no matter what age.

No matter what Donald Trump says, he has deep socialist leanings. He's a nationalist and a populist. And throughout history, whenever you combine those three things it never ends well.

So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

When I was very young, I was disgracefully intolerant but when I passed the thirty mark I prided myself on having learned the beautiful lesson that all things were good, and equally good. That, however, was really laziness. Now, thank goodness, I've sorted out what matters and what doesn't. And I'm beginning to be intolerant again.

When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we reverence the faults and follies of children. We should probably come considerably nearer to the true conception of things if we treated all grown-up persons, of all titles and types, with precisely that dark affection and dazed respect with which we treat the infantile limitations.

In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.

When you're in that zone there's nothing really the defense can do ... It doesn't matter who's sticking you because everything looks good.