Matter Quotes - Page 234

It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white.

What does it matter, all is grace.

In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.

Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.

No matter what your politics is, we ought to be thanking people for volunteering.

Values matters well in a race.

Forms of government matter, in my opinion. It matters how -- the nature of the government in which people live.

Not every action requires military action. As a matter of fact, military action is the very last resort for us.

We're going to get [bin Laden]. Dead or alive, it doesn't matter to me.

Interpretation is a task that we repeatedly have to take up and start again from the beginning, Sisyphus-like. But, as Camus said, we must always imagine Sisyphus happy, and this is not so difficult when it's a matter of texts that reveal important truths about being human.

Ultimately, we live in the face of an irresolvable mystery about our origin and, for that matter, about our end. And what Schleiermacher would have us do is (a) acknowledge that this is the case and (b) accept it as something positive, a point of departure for a life of trusting joy.

Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it.

Be the same still mountain self and mountain peace no matter what the external conditions.

No matter what your work today, if it is worth while at all - time to plan it out, time to do it well, and time to finish it, is your day's greatest gift and your greatest job.

It doesn't matter in any game of rugby how many points the opposition scores, as long as we score more!

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.

When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds.

Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.

It's one of the old show business axioms. No matter how successful you've been, there's always a younger and sexier seal coming along.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.

There is nothing in the way of amelioration of the conditions of life, of politics, of social and ethical matters, that may not be affected through the skilful application of those principles of advertising that, in business, have proved to be so wonderfully effective.

It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.

Everything goes, everything is lost, eventually. But if something is good, it doesn't matter what happens. The ending is still happy.