Matters Quotes

Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.

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.

The constitution ought to specifically state that every nation is left entirely independent and supreme in its internal affairs, such as regulating emigration and all other similar matters.

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

Sometimes, the other characters are too normal and then you start to be brought back to reality but then Luna shows up and she is just so funny and cool and honest and slightly mad and she's all that matters. She is 100% true. She puts on no shows, because she is so comfortable with herself.

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.

A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit.

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

It is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and ends are far too important for any such calculations.

As soon as I step on that stage, nothing matters. I don't think of it as work. It's just so much fun.

But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death.

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.

The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes.

It is only those who believe in their ability who shine when it matters.

I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.

I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.