Matter Quotes - Page 99

Ultimately, what really matters is not just the experiences you have at a young age, but whether or not you are equipped-by your parents, by your genetics, by your education-to survive and deal with them.

Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.

There is no such thing as inanimate matter...there is God or divinity in all matter and it is all living energy.

No matter what you do, you're going to have people who have something to say about something you do. You can't please anybody.

A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence.

It does not matter what has been made of us; what matters is what we ourselves make of what has been made of us.

I am never as clear about any matter as when I have finished writing about it.

Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself.

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.

The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.

What you say is what matters.

All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.

Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, 'You had to be there'.

You are going to tell me what I want to know, it's just a matter of how much you want it to hurt.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.

To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being... what matters is not whether you love it or hate it, but only to be quite clear about your position regarding it.

Bullialdus wrote that all force respecting ye Sun as its center & depending on matter must be reciprocally in a duplicate ratio of ye distance from ye center.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers. Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power. I wouldn't hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right.

When anything can happen, everything matters.

An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.

Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.

I'm not concerned about what [Donald Trump] says about me. That doesn't matter to me. I'm going to stand up for immigrants. I'm going to stand up for American Muslims who are working hard in this country that they love and consider their own. I'm going to stand up for other women. I'm going to stand up for the right to choose.

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.