Best 5806 quotes in «matter quotes» category

It is a very important matter, as a woman, to juggle everything... Your professional life, family, children etc.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

It is better not to make merit a matter of reward Lest people conspire and contend.

It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.

It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.

It is easy to infuse a most fervent devotion into others, even in a short time; but the great matter is - to persevere.

It is He who manifests as both matter and consciousness. There is no place where God is not. In every atom, in every living being He alone is present.

It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous.

It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,' she said. It seems to be true,' he admitted. 'I wonder why.' Because it makes one feel so small and insignificant. It has been rising forever and will rise forever no matter what we do or do not do. All our problems are as nothing to the sun.

It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the universe but still gives some credence to myths. So without the study of nature there is no enjoyment of pure pleasure.

It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.

It is in falling down that we learn almost everything that matters spiritually.

It is mostly a matter of wills. Whose will is going to break first? Ours or the enemy's?

It is less what one is that should matter, than what one is not.

It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.

It is necessary for a Senator to be thoroughly acquainted with the constitution; and this is a knowledge of the most extensive nature; a matter of science, of diligence, of reflection, without which no Senator can possibly be fit for his office.

It is my firm belief that action on the issues that matter for Africa must emerge from within Africa itself.

It is necessary to do a very thorough examination of your life and to discover whether the people in your life, no matter how much you love them, are using you or abusing you.

It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.

It is no exaggeration to say that Israeli policy in the occupied territories is not simply a matter of foreign policy - it is a matter for British domestic security policy too.

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.

It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.

It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble.

It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods.

It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.

It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.

It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What’d you choose to do with yours?

It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.

[It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. […] The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining. (87)

It is not the place where we are, or the work that we do or cannot do that matters, it is something else. It is the fire within that burns and shines, whatever be our circumstances.

It is not the greatness of the work which matters to God but the love with which it is done.

It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.

It is not the hours of practice that matter...it's what you put into the hours that counts.

It is not what you believe that matters; it is how you respond with your heart and your actions. It is not believing in Christ that matters; it is becoming like him

It isn't a matter of hope. It's a matter of - between the options of trying nothing and trying something, let's try something but let's also be very thoughtful about what that something is.

It isn't important what you do, it is the attitude with which you proceed through the world that matters.

It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

It is often just as important to be perceived as something as actually to be that something and, as a matter of fact, a candidate need not be anything ideologically at all.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end.

It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.

It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us.