Best 5806 quotes in «matter quotes» category

In my life right now, in my music, and just overall I feel like I'm winning. It doesn't matter what this person is saying or what the charts are saying or what award shows are saying, the public opinion doesn't matter. I feel like I'm winning in my spirit.

Innocent people never deserve to die no matter what.

In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.

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

In politics nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.

In Paris there are few changes; one always finds one's niche there when one returns - no matter how long one may have been away.

In physics, opinions don't matter, only demonstrated experiments. The day the fellow succeeds, if ever, he won't need anybody else's opinion.

In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn to a particular poet, Theodore Roethke. I did a dissertation on "The Evolution of Matter and Spirit in the Poetry of Theodore Roethke" for my Ph.D.

In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.

In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter.

In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.

In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.

In Randori we teach the pupil to act on the fundamental principles of Judo, no matter how physically inferior his opponent may seem to him, and even if by sheer strength he can easily overcome him; because if he acts contrary to principle his opponent will never be convinced of defeat, no matter what brute strength he may have used.

In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.

In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there were many. … Furthermore, in science there is a court of last resort, experiment, which is unavailable in human affairs.

In short, [photography] is a matter of turning loneliness into thoughts.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

In software speed to market, speed to learning is really key. In hardware if you screw it up you are dead. So accuracy really matters.

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

In spiritual matters we remain beginners.

Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.

Integrity means having the courage to do what is right, and what is aligned with your values, no matter the situation.

Intellection must address the matter of its feeling.

Intake is everything. And that is, that's where you start to realize your ego has no business in our business. Once you think you know everything, it's only a matter of time. So I will forever remain a student.

Intentions don't matter. It's the end result we're all judged by. Evil in the name of good is still evil. And when you dance with the devil, you seldom get to pick the tune.

Intensity is all that matters in painting.

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.

In terms of the most astonishing fact about which we know nothing, there is dark matter and dark energy. We don't know what either of them is. Everything we know and love about the universe and all the laws of physics as they apply, apply to four percent of the universe. That's stunning.

Interpretation is a task that we repeatedly have to take up and start again from the beginning, Sisyphus-like. But, as Camus said, we must always imagine Sisyphus happy, and this is not so difficult when it's a matter of texts that reveal important truths about being human.

In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.

In the beginning there were only probabilities. The universe could only come into existence if someone observed it. It does not matter that the observers turned up several billion years later. The universe exists because we are aware of it.

In the case of those solids, whether of earth, or rock, which enclose on all sides and contain crystals, selenites, marcasites, plants and their parts, bones and the shells of animals, and other bodies of this kind which are possessed of a smooth surface, these same bodies had already become hard at the time when the matter of the earth and rock containing them was still fluid. And not only did the earth and rock not produce the bodies contained in them, but they did not even exist as such when those bodies were produced in them.

In the context of eternity, time doesn't matter.

In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.

In the end all that matters is climbing and pushing your personal limits. No matter the grade, if you climb something that was hard for you, then that's sick.

In the end, it doesn't really matter what you paint. It's all just a routine to connect yourself finally with other people.

In the end, no matter how much you love your work, your work will not love you back.

In the end only kindness matters.

In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect.

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.

In the end, though, maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

In the end, you'll know which people really love you. They're the ones who see you for who you are and, no matter what, always find a way to be at your side.

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

In the end, raising money is basically a matter of going out there and asking. There are no shortcuts.

In the lead-up to the launch of my new book I Was Here, I’ve seen a lot of discussion about depression and suicide and mental health and YA dealing with such intense matters. What I haven’t seen discussed is kittens.

In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for those who do not devote themselves to it.

In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability.