Best 5806 quotes in «matter quotes» category

There was never a question in my mind that I wanted to climb that mountain, no matter what other people said.

There was no way to take the story back, folding it neatly into the place I'd kept it all this time. No matter what else happened, from here on out, I would always remember Wes, because with this telling, he'd become part of that story, of my story, too.

There were some things you did, no matter what, and when a friend needed help, you helped them.

There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality.

There will always be a theatrical experience because there will always be cinemas no matter what. It's like there will always be theaters to have stage plays in.

There will always be crazy things that happen in our lives, but love is the central connector. If we commit to love and partnership, the other stuff doesnt matter.

The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

The roads by which men arrive at their insights into celestial matters seem to me almost as worthy of wonder as those matters in themselves.

The road to happiness has never been a straight one, and yet, it is the only road worth traveling, no matter how curvy or rocky it is!

The rottenness of the matter which is the foundation of everything!

The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.

The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody.

The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.

The sad truth is that societies that demand whistleblowers be martyrs often find themselves without either, and always when it matters the most.

The scientist … must always be prepared to deal with the unknown. It is an essential part of science that you should be able to describe matters in a way where you can say something without knowing everything.

The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.

These are serious matters, and we can never let up on these sanctions [against Russia].

The seas will continue to rise no matter who gets elected president.

The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around this part of the nation, the fair that once marked the harvest now takes place in late August, while tourist dollars are still in heavy circulation. Why celebrate the harvest when you harvest every week with a shopping cart?

The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn’t matter what body it came out of. I’ve never felt more strongly about anything in my life.

The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.

The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece. Such imperfections are your guides - valuable, objective, non-judgmental guides to matters you need to reconsider or develop further.

The sense itself was I. I felt no dross or matter in my soul, no brims or borders, such as in a bowl we see. My essence was capacity.

The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.

These matters require what I think of as the Shakespearean cast of thought. That is to say, a fine credulity about everything, kept in check by a lively skepticism about everything.... It keeps you constantly alert to every possibility.

The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

The severity of your problems is a matter of perspective. Change your perspective and most of them become insignificant. Some of them will no longer exist as problems - but opportunities instead.

The show has to be good because you want to be good. But if it's not good, it doesn't matter.

The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right.

The significance of something lies in its presence here and now. I don't care what it has been or what it will become. It is the experience of things that matters, the confrontation with things.

The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter.

The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.

The single word that matters most I think to keep the company productive as it grows is alignment.

The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.

The skyline is etched in my veins. You can never put that out, no matter how hard it rains.

The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening.

The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind.

The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.

The speed of time is 1 hour per hour, no matter what else is going on in the universe.

The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.

The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.

The soul that acquires the virtue of forgiveness won't find any more trouble. No matter what happens, he will know how to run his life.

The Spirit could not create matter as anything different from Itself, for it had only Itself as the tissue or material with which to build the cosmos.

The spirit from which we act is the principal matter.

The spirit seeks the spirit just as matter seeks matter.

The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.

The stories that you tell yourself can make or break you - no matter who you are.