Best 5806 quotes in «matter quotes» category

As regards humanitarian issues and how to handle them, that was the Prime Minister's [Shinzō Abe] initiative. He brought the matter up at our last meeting in Lima and asked me straightforwardly whether we would agree to let Japanese citizens travel on a visa-free basis, resolve the issue in such a way as to enable them to visit the South Kurils, visit their native areas. I said at once that it was quite possible.

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

As soon as it is held that any belief, no matter what, is important for some other reason than that it is true, a whole host of evils is ready to spring up.

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

As the world has to attain the fulfilment of eternal life, to me it does not in the least matter what I am called -'Enlightened One', 'Son of God', or something else. To me, it has no purpose - as little as when the Buddha said, 'I am the Enlightened One'.

As to matters of dress, I would recommend one never to be first in the fashion nor the last out of it.

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

A surgeon would never hesitate to amputate a rotting hand, no matter how faithfully it had served its owner in the past.

Astronomers are spherical bastards. No matter how you look at them they are just bastards.

A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.

As we gradually learn to harness the optimal computing capacity of matter, our intelligence will spread through the universe at (or exceeding) the speed of light, eventually leading to a sublime, universe wide awakening.

As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.

As you see, it is not that I don't know my own mind, I know it very well but only up to a certain point in the matter. I know perfectly well what the question is. It's the answer I want.

As you go through life you realize that the love that you have for the people in your life and their love for you is all that matters. It's really about how you regard them and how they regard you.

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

At least in Europe, we consider the right to privacy a fundamental right and it is a very serious matter.

Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.

A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.

At our core, we just want to know that we matter.

A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.

At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.

A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.

A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

At some point all lies are brought to the surface and truth comes forth no matter how hard we try to hide it.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is a sheer act of creative will. You have to be prepared to stick with your art no matter what comes your way.

At the end of the day, if you can't say a line right, it does not matter who your contacts are.

At the end of the day, when all is said and done playing this game ... it doesn't matter what you did in the field, it's what you do off the field and the lives that you touch off the field.

At the end of a matter ask, "What will I learn from this to make me better?

At their core, when things really matter, people see a need to turn to God for strength and protection.

At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle.

At times, I've been so absolutely terrified of what I was about to do, whether it was public speaking or performance. Whatever it was, sometimes it had me really, really shaking in my shoes, and I decided that I was going to do it no matter what. And, of course, the critic is there, and afterwards, there's this, "Was it good enough? Was it really all I wanted to say?

Audiences believe what you believe. It's a matter of believing yourself. If I believe me, then you've got no choice. None at all.

At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.

A woman is subject matter enough.

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.

Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be.

A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

A wise mother knows: It is her state of consciousness that matters. Her gentleness and clarity command respect. Her love creates security.

A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.

A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.

A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil].

Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't - no matter when, no matter what.

Barack Obama was elected President in 2008 and re-elected in 2012. The natural thing would be to suggest money on the right [wing] doesn't really matter that much. The first thing you have to know is that the presidential elections are the ones where it's most difficult for money to hold sway, in that they're the most public elections.

Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually.

Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you.

Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.

Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm.