Matters Quotes

Art matters.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.

President Obama understands women. He trusts women. And on every issue that matters to us, he stands with women.

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.

Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.

I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it.

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters.

I've never been on Wall Street. And I care about Wall Street for one reason and one reason only because what happens on Wall Street matters to Main Street.

Moreover, I want us to urge political and religious leaders, and all peoples of the world, to move forward in a conciliatory spirit, to deal with religious matters in a responsible and balanced way, and to focus on their common grounds.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

Well I've already made it clear that it's a matter for individuals in exercising their own judgement, their own consciences to speak freely on matters of policy.

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters.

If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are concerned with what is the bottom line.

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.