Best 5806 quotes in «matter quotes» category

If the restrictions on the work of my party and on me personally are not removed in the very, very near future - that is in a matter of days - I think the United States should start thinking seriously of sanctions. This is really about as bad as it has ever been.

If there was ever a moment to follow your passion and do work that matters, this is it.

If the truth is with you, let anything else be against you! You will win! If the truth is not with you but everything else is on your side, it doesn't matter, you will lose!

If the Royal Variety Show was put in a matter transportation machine with the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, this is what you'd get.

If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed for in life. They would realise, deep down, that they, and whole nations along with them, are not really what they seem to be-and never can be.

If this advertisement be not sufficient, I can only protrude my wormlike tendrils of apology, craving forbearance on the grounds that a writer must write about what he knows, and since I know nothing about any subject it scarcely matters where I dabble.

If understanding followed no rule at all, there would be no good in the understanding nor in the matter understood, and to remain in ignorance would be the greatest good.

If this were a simpler matter, I'd have eliminated everyone else by now. I know how I feel about you. Maybe it's impulsive of me to think I could be so sure, but I'm certain I would be happy with you.

If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?

If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.

If we are one in purpose, spirit, principle and faith, then it doesn't really matter if we are always of the same opinion. Opinions change and can be easily altered by time, experience, and circumstance. But principles, purposes, spirituality, and faith are enduring values that can bind us as one despite disagreement or dispute.

If we can accept whatever hand we've been dealt - no matter how unwelcome - the way to proceed eventually becomes clear.

If we care about the average working American, then Wal-Mart matters. A lot.

If we devote ourselves to the life at hand, the rest will follow. For life, it seems, reveals itself through those willing to live. Anything else, no matter how beautiful, is just advertising.

If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him, does it matter whom we displease?

If we fail to feed the needy, we do not have God's love, no matter what we say. Regardless of what we do or say at 11am in a Sunday morn, affluent people who neglect the poor are not the people of God.

If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.

If we get public education right, everything else will follow. But if we get it wrong, not much else will matter.

If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.

If we know God is for us, then it shouldn't matter how we feel, or what other people think of us.

If we're all saying that rap is an art form then we gotta be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you're saying, it don't matter that you didn't make them die, it just matters that you didn't save them.

If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for.

If we should take a million of worlds like this and number their particles, we should find that there are more Gods than there are particles of matter in those worlds.

If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.

If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.

If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music.

...if you are fat, no matter what you wear, nothing is going to make you sexier.

If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.

If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.

If you are perpetually angry, depressed, confused, and unloving, or your attention is elsewhere, it won't matter how successful you become or who is in your life - you won't enjoy any of it.

If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend.

If you ask people to do things and they usually don't get around to them, stop asking yourself, "What's the matter with people these days?" Instead, ask yourself, "What's the matter with me? What am I doing or failing to do that causes people to give me empty promises?

If you ask where a relationship is going too often the question has a habit of turning into where the relationship went. Unfortunately, however, God has given women an inbuilt irresistible urge to insist on knowing where their relationships are going, and to force their partners to discuss the matter at length whenever they are late for something.

If you believe in someone enough, and you just don't stop believing in them, mo matter what, no matter how much they push you away, and no matter how often they prove they're only there to use you.

If you believe in yourself, it doesn't matter what others might be telling you is impossible. It's all up to you!

If you can do it, it ain't braggin'... it's a matter of self-confidence. I got where I did because I wasn't no shrinking violet.

If you can go out there and stand up for what it is you believe in no matter how many times you are knocked down, in the end the swinging of your own blows will exhaust them.

If you can't beat them or join them, then do something weird. No matter how much the passengers eat, the weight of the plane stays the same. Do you sometimes feel that you are necessary but not sufficient?

If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter.

If you can't quit no matter how hard you try, then you have a chance to succeed.

If you can't impress yourself, then no one else really matters.

If you criticize others' ideas, they will almost never use yours no matter how good they are.

If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.

If you don't control the borders, it doesn't matter what immigration laws you have.

If you do not choose the kingdom of God, it does not matter what you choose instead.

If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out?

If you don't have the confidence, it doesn't matter what you do, you're always second-guessing yourself.

If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business.

If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take.

If you don't get it built, the work doesn't matter.