Best 5806 quotes in «matter quotes» category

Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.

Right then, it didn't matter what his reasons were. All I knew that I was sick of him breaking my heart.

Right now, it's just a matter of getting my strength and endurance back. So far, no setbacks.

Rodney the ghoul?...Oh, I liked him. He didn't get angry no matter how many times my mother insulted him.

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.

Rules or no rules, pitchers are going to throw spitters. It's a matter of survival.

Running well is a matter of having the patience to persevere when we are tired and not expecting instant results.

Sadly, too much has changed about publishing ... not only does attractiveness matter to agents and editors, but there's no room anymore for a reclusive writer.

Sanctimony is the most inexpensive form of morality. It costs us nothing to make much of small matters in others.

Sanity is sometimes a matter of going on, outwardly, as if everything is all right.

Say nothing of the new life you have begun or of the experiment you are making and experiences you expect to have. All this is a matter between God and you, and only between you two.

Scheduling is always tough, no matter what the budget size is, and we had our own run-ins with that, on 'Fading of the Cries.'

Say it clearly and you make it beautiful, no matter what.

Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.

Science boosts its claim to truth by its spectacular ability to make matter and energy jump through hoops on command, and to predict what will happen and when.

Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

Scientific and technological "solutions" which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly conceived or how great their superficial attraction.

Science talks about very simple things, and asks hard questions about them. As soon as things become too complex, science can't deal with them... But it's a complicated matter: Science studies what's at the edge of understanding, and what's at the edge of understanding is usually fairly simple. And it rarely reaches human affairs. Human affairs are way too complicated.

Scores only matter if they’re very good, no one pays much attention to the bad or mediocre ones.

Scientists who have dedicated their lives to building machines that think, feel that it's only a matter of time before some form of consciousness is captured in the laboratory.

Scientology 1970 is being planned on a religious organization basis throughout the world. This will not upset in any way the usual activities of any organization. It is entirely a matter for accountants and solicitors.

Security matters should not be entrusted to people who make decisions without weighing things up.

See it in terms of paint. We don't learn subject matter, we learn paint. The musician can play any score that is set before him.

Self-control is solely a matter of thought-control!

Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.

Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters-self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

Set higher standards for you own performance than anyone around you, and it won't matter whether you have a tough boss or an easy one. It won't matter whether the competition is pushing you hard, because you'll be competing with yourself.

Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.

Sex is a highly personal matter, yet it seems to get more impersonal all the time. How do I feel about sex? I suppose it matters with whom.

Seth and I had broken up twice and while I usually accepted that he had moved on, I knew that I would love him forever. For me, forever was a serious matter" - Georgina about

Sharing revelations is easier when it doesn't matter.

Shakespeare - it's not funny. No matter how they try to make Shakespeare funny, when it's meant to be funny it's not funny.

Sexual assault is neither a ‘light’ nor ‘fluffy’ matter, and we cannot treat it as if it were.

Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.

She had given birth to me and nursed me and brought me up. She had known me before I knew myself and now she had no say in the matter. Life started out one thing and then suddenly turned a corner and became something else.

She had learned, in the slums of her childhood, that honest people were never touchy about the matter of being trusted.

She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him

She screamed, the high scream that was neither human nor animal but something terrible in between, the sort of sound that you never forget no matter how many beautiful things you hear afterward.

"Shoe" just meant you were a big jock on campus no matter what field you were in.

Should have a Ph.d. on the subject of women. Anyhow the fact of the matter is I've failed usually. I'm exceptionally enamored with women; I respect them. Yet, in the same way as all men, I don't comprehend them.

... shouldn't everything you do matter if you're bothering at all? Not to hold on when it's over, that's the trick.

Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards.

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

Since Christianity is in fact a slave religion, it is satirical at least to see the negro adopt a slave religion, after chattel slavery was ended. It simply underlines the fact that consciously or unconsciously, weak humans desire the status of sheep, no matter what they say.

Since Congress makes the laws they are under the delusion that anything they do is legal, no matter if it is unwise, unethical, or un-Constitutional.

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

SINCE OUR GOALS REPRESENT THE THINGS THAT MATTER MOST TO US, SHOULDN'T WE FIGHT FOR THEM?

Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right?