Best 5806 quotes in «matter quotes» category

Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

Please tell me you will remember, no matter how much I do wrong that I had the best of intentions all along.

Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.

Pleasure, no matter how desirable, is never innocent: it's always presupposing and assuming a certain kind of social order, one usually shot through structures of domination.

Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our awareness and into language itself the unobvious and the unexpected.

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun. It is doing that always doing that, doing that and doing nothing but that. Poetry is doing nothing but using losing refusing and pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns. That is what poetry does, that is what poetry has to do no matter what kind of poetry it is. And there are a great many kinds of poetry.

Polar north can't get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what.

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

Poison's not bad. It's a matter of how much.

Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

Political matters are developing so fast that we must not let a single thing slip without use.

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make them better, but it is this inside-ness that matters most. Nothing else, at the last breath, matters, but your very own poetry. The glory of living.

Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are allowed to wander around making a nuisance of themselves.

Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts to whole……. …skew or distorted spaces, created by sharp angles which exaggerate perspective…. …always keep a mental coordinate system no matter how free- form and baroque they become. The reference plane is always an implied frontality, and the route through the building or the curvilinear elements then relate to this conceptual cage

Possession of territory is not primarily about laws and contracts, but first and foremost a matter of movement and circulation.

Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Power is not a matter of one dominant individual or institutions, but instead manifests in interconnected, contradictory sites where regimes of knowledge and practice circulate and take hold. This way of understanding the dispersion of power helps us realize that power is not simply about certain individuals being targeted for death or exclusion by a ruler, but instead about the creation of norms that distribute vulnerability and security.

Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the background. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgment.

Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed.

Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.

Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too.

Practicing yoga during the day is a matter of keeping your eyes on the road and one ear turned toward the infinite.

Practice is not a matter of years and months. It is a matter of concentration.

Prayer enables you to tap into God's wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what's going on.

Prayer is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter a lot less.

Praying is no easy matter. It demands a relationship in which you allow someone other than yourself to enter into the very center of your person, to see there what you would rather leave in darkness, and to touch there what you would rather leave untouched.

Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less.

Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.

President Obama and Hillary Clinton, every time you disagree with them it doesn't matter which subject it is, you're a bigot or you're a racist.

President Obama understands women. He trusts women. And on every issue that matters to us, he stands with women.

Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence.

Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.

Privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.

Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.

Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.

Propaganda is a topic of particular concern to peace associations. This is a matter of educating the population in general, and not least the voters.

Proselytism is tolerated by Hinduism. Any man, whether he be a Shudra or Chandala, can expound philosophy even to a Brahmin. The truth can be learnt from the lowest individual, no matter to what caste or creed he belongs.

Probably the biggest challenge is actors, no matter how talented the actor is they don't have the capability of being in more than one place than one particular time, which is very vexing.

Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I’ve always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.

Problems are not my problem. It's not what happens to me but what happens in me that matters.

Proofs of the Euclidean [parallel] postulate can be developed to such an extent that apparently a mere trifle remains. But a careful analysis shows that in this seeming trifle lies the crux of the matter; usually it contains either the proposition that is being proved or a postulate equivalent to it.