Best 5806 quotes in «matter quotes» category

Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks.

How attraction works, making one's body almost painfully alive and one's thoughts concentrated, also painfully. And the truth of these powerful attractions - they have their own morality and nothing else matters.

How can one say, 'No, this isn't a part of life,' since it always is? The contaminant of sex, the redeeming corruption that de-idealizes the species and keeps us everlastingly mindful of the matter we are.

How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to.

How can we create a cultural legacy of happiness? Let other people matter.

How children learn to use diverse sources of efficacy information in developing a stable and accurate sense of personal efficacy is a matter of considerable interest

How do we define consciousness, or what has been called the human soul or the spirit, if it can't be quantified as matter or a particle?.. It can be quantified or observed just by a process of elimination.

How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity, and not matter?

How do you forget that someone else is another person? No matter who they are. I don't think that's an excuse.

However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.

However much we obfuscate or ignore it, we know that the factory farm is inhumane in the deepest sense of the word. And we know that there is something that matters in a deep way about the lives we create for the living beings most within our power. Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless--it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or another.

However incompatible the spirit of Jesus and armed force may be, and however unpleasant it may be to acknowledge the fact, as a matter of plain history the latter has often made it possible for the former to survive.

How hard you work matters more than how much you make.

How I choose to look at any situation will greatly affect whether I have the power to change it or make matters worse.

How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around it can take. For truth is a matter that can withstand mockery, that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot withstand satire is false.

How often we forget to dedicate ourselves to that which truly matters! We forget that we are children of God.

How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage for that matter.

How shall we plan, that all be fresh and new-- Important matter yet attractive too? [Ger., Wie machen wir's, dass alles frisch und neu Und mit Bedeutung auch gefallig sei?]

How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

How you approach the problem of suffering depends on how you approach life itself. There are only two ways. Either meaning is surrounded by matter, or matter is surrounded by meaning.

How you do anything is how you do everything. Your "character" or "nature" just refers to how you handle all the day-to-day things in life, no matter how small.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

Human beings have hope. Not matter how desperate things are, they convince themselves that they can change things for the better." - John Gregory (Clash of the Demons)

Human beings are distinguished by a capacity for experience as well as by their behavior, and homosexuality is as much a matter ofemotion as of genital manipulation.... As we each examine our own sense of identity we realize how much more complex is the question of homosexuality than a mere Kinsey-like computation of orgasms.

Human concepts, no matter how grand they may appear, have limitations.

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

Humans, werewolves, or, apparently, vampire, it doesn't matter; get more than three of them together and the jockeying for power begins.

Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom.

Hurricanes are dangerous things, and they're no fun to go through. And if you come out of it in one piece and your house comes out of in one piece, it's no fun living with no electricity for a day or a week, a month, whatever it is. And I speak, unfortunately, from personal experience on that matter.

I accept the consequences of all that I do. No matter what we do with our lives, our bodies are temporary. We're all going to die, and I'd rather die climbing than doing anything else.

I actually don't think it matters how early or late you are as long as you hit critical mass.

I actually feel that personal matters, like religion and spirituality, are things that I really discuss only with intimates. I think it's, in a way, like sexuality, something where it touches upon something very private.

I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.

I adore you, mon petit, and would never allow him to hurt you, no matter how gently or madly.

I admire the Shabbat tradition, and no matter which faith you are of, there is nothing more wonderful than dedicating a certain day to spend time with your family and loved ones, absent of TV, phone, and other interruptions.

I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint - no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided...

I almost never slept deeply anymore--as soon as she said my name, I always sat up immediately, no matter how tired I was.

I also require much time to ponder over the matters themselves, and particularly the principles of mechanics (as the very words: force, time, space, motion indicate) can occupy one severely enough; likewise, in mathematics, the meaning of imaginary quantities, of the infinitesimally small and infinitely large and similar matters.

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad. Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

I always like to say that no matter what you want to do in life, if you stick with it, you're bound to eventually get good at it!

I always thought that no matter what kind of work people did, they should involve themselves totally with all the discrimination they ran into.

I always love it best when you have a project where there is this commingling of the subject matter and the way in which you're recording that subject matter.

I always preach that you have to be active as a citizen no matter what, and some people just voting as an excuse not to do anything.

I always pretend like I'm nervous no matter what. I try to fall asleep.

I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-

I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what.

I am a defensive tackle that no matter the situation, even if it is in nickel, I can go in there and rush the passer. And I can help the team out on first and second, too. I will get pressure.

I am a one-trick pony. But I have worked hard at something I would have liked to do even if I weren't paid a penny for it, and made a good living at it. You can't be luckier than that in this life, no matter who you are or what you do.

I am always safe, no matter which doorway I pass through.

I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.