Matter Quotes - Page 95

It was all a matter of control. And Choice. Nothing more, nothing less

Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.

No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.

It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed.

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

When you are on the podium nobody is asking you if you are 15 or 30 years old. What matters is who can do great gymnastics.

What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

To speak truth to power is not a particularly honorable vocation. One should seek out an audience that matters - and furthermore (another important qualification), it should not be seen as an audience, but as a community of common concern in which one hopes to participate constructively.

Wisdom is not a matter of study, but a matter of living, and of sure action which rises above opposites.

I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That's a totally different matter.

I'm not perfect, either. In the end, it's only God's judgement that matters, and I've learned enough to know that no one can presume to know the will of God.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.

Self-control is solely a matter of thought-control!

No matter what I have done, no matter how I have failed, no matter how week I have been, no matter how inadequate I am, God has not changed. He has not failed.

Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small.

In spiritual matters we remain beginners.

Everyone has flaws. It's a matter of finding the ones you can live with.

As soon as I step on that stage, nothing matters. I don't think of it as work. It's just so much fun.

We found out that no matter how good you are you can't go out there and compete against teams that have been together for quite some time.

No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.

I've never felt limited by my circumstances, no matter what they were. Even when I was living in Iowa, it wasn't like I had big dreams, but it wasn't that I felt I couldn't have any. I always felt very capable.

It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching the power of truth from the forms of hegemony, social, economic and cultural, within which it operates at the present time