Matter Quotes

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

The fact of the matter is I'm 21 now. I stay home. I feed my dogs. I don't really go out. I work.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself, 'Oh, God. I was so deep in that moment,' and find it just didn't play. I don't know if I have very good radar about that or not.

No matter what players say or people say, you want to be liked and appreciated, even if you've had a downfall.

If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game.

To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you.

No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

If you're a goalkeeper, it doesn't matter what you save the ball with - if you keep it out, it's not a goal.

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.

You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60.

I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.

Oh, Michael Jackson is Michael Jackson. And no matter if he sold 40 million records off of one record and sold 15 off his last or whatever the counts may be, Michael Jackson will be Michael Jackson.

Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.

You commit a felony, it does not matter who you are, you could be deported.

We know that we are not collectively guilty, so how can we accuse any other nation, no matter what some of its people have done, of being collectively guilty?

True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.

As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is going to be just a few keystrokes away in a matter of years.

When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no special identity; it was just 'the wine,' from the cellar cask. The rules were general: white with the first course, red with the main course.

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.

If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.