Matter Quotes - Page 235

Everything, no matter how beautiful, is only with us for awhile.

In other words, the barbaric acts carried out in this building were probably almost a matter of routine.

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.

I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.

We were both music-obsessed, each in our own way. If we didn't entirely understand the other person's obsession, it didn't matter, because we understood our own.

And that's when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I'm still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he's in love with now, Willem changed my life. He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.

Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can't do much about how drawers fill up.

Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

I have come to the conclusion that while a candidate's faith matters, what's most important is how he or she applies that faith.

Do not tarry, do not stop, no matter what happens.

No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you're in the moment. Every situation is so different.

I hear them saying, "You'll never change things, and no matter what you do it's still the same thing." But it's not the world that I am changing. I do this so this world will know that it will not change me.

In terms of content, you can make a problem for yourself, I mean, make the contest difficult, let's say, with certain subject matter that is inherently dramatic.

I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about finances, on one side.

I don't know if I'm really the fastest. It doesn't matter.

No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.

Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.

Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.

There is also a reasonable tolerance: reason tolerates the reasonable. It is, however, almost tautological to call this 'tolerance' any longer, as it becomes a matter of course.

Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'

To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.

In all matters of eternal truth, the soul is before the intellect; the things of God are spiritually discerned. You know truth by being true; you recognize God by being like Him.

Sex is a highly personal matter, yet it seems to get more impersonal all the time. How do I feel about sex? I suppose it matters with whom.

Avoid the things in your life that take away from your stillness. Find things that add to that stillness. Bring them more into your life. It doesn't matter what works or doesn't. It is all individual.

Approach each task in your life, no matter how simple or how complex, with power.