Best 5806 quotes in «matter quotes» category

Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.

Jesus came into this world not as a philosopher or a general but as a carpenter. All work matters to God.

Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.

[John Calvin] writes clearly, directly, without artifice, and gets straight to the practical heart of the matter.

John Doyle just knows how to feed actors, and what comes out of us, good, bad, right, wrong, doesn't matter. There's no fear or censure. He opens up the creative goo and all of the actor vessel stuff. He knows how to do it. It's just incredible.

Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.

Joining a company is an act that calls for absolute loyalty in big matters and little ones.

Joss [Whedon] is an excellent storyteller. It really doesn't matter what medium he's working in.

Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.

Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time.

Jung even asserted that he would have no objection to regarding the psyche as a quality of matter and matter as a concrete aspect of the psyche, provided that the psyche was understood to be the collective unconscious.

Just as in nature systems of order govern the growth and structure of animate and inanimate matter, so human activity itself has, since the earliest times, been distinguished by the quest for order.

Just be you. I've learned the hard way and in the end, some people are just so full of hate that no matter what you say or do, they'll always have something to say.

Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.

Just live right now, and be yourself, it doesn't matter if it's not good enough for someone else.

Just jump in with both feet and live your life, no matter what.

Just in general, no matter what you're doing, be true to yourself. Never let anyone else dictate how you live your life.

Just live that life. It doesn't matter whether it is life or hell, life of the hungry ghost, life of the animal, it's okay; just live that life, see. And as a matter of fact no other way. Where you stand, where you are, that's what your life is right there, regardless of how painful it is or how enjoyable it is. That's what it is.

Just remember: Surviving is the best revenge, no matter what the disaster has been.

Just tell me you don't love me, and I'll let the matter drop." "What?" "What I said. Just say, 'Rai, I don't love you and I never will'. It's that simple." "Raisa, this is getting us nowhere." "Say it!

Just remember that everyone is struggling; everyone is living with fear and uncertainty and it doesn't matter what their politics are.

Kant ... discovered "the scandal of reason," that is the fact that our mind is not capable of certain and verifiable knowledge regarding matters and questions that it nevertheless cannot help thinking about.

Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult.

Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant

Keep your honor code between you and God, you don't break that, no matter who's not looking. God is.

Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest.

Kids know what's going on. They always respond to The Beatles, for instance. Doesn't matter when they were born, they always seem to respond. Show me a kid who innately doesn't like The Beatles, and I'll show you a bad seed.

King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.

Killing more people won't help matters.

Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.

Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the heart.

Knowing that I make somebody's day better is all that matters at the end of the day.

Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to "learn." What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying "Know thyself.

Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty.

Know that TODAY, and each and everyday literally becomes the BEST day of your life, when YOU choose to see that it is. It doesn't matter what's going on around you, it only matters what's going on inside of you.

Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.

Knowledge resides in the user and not in the collection. It is how the user reacts to a collection of information that matters.

Knowledge counts but common sense matters.

Krishna is dwelling in the hearts of everybody. It doesn't matter what kind of body you've got, the Lord's there with you. We're all the same really.

Late in his life, that's another matter, [Adolf Hitler] was not the same man in 1944 and he was, say, in 1934.

Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.

Largeness is a lifelong matter - sometimes a conscious goal, sometimes not. You enlarge yourself because that is the kind of individual you are. You grow because you are not content not to.

Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.

Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.

Latinos outnumber Black people now. I'm not too happy about it. Because it's only a matter of time before we lose our month. Soon as they figure it out, they're going to have Latino History Month. All we're going to have is Cinco de Negro.

Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.

Leadership, in other words, is a matter of character, not goals.

Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don’t know where you are going, your leadership doesn’t matter.

Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do it.