Matters Quotes

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

Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.

One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We're also supporting processes to ensure that the political dialogue among the Congolese themselves takes place so that the people there can decide their future.

Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues.

We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.

Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.

The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.

It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come.

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'.

I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

To love what you do and feel that it matters how could anything be more fun?

We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters.

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

First of all, I am not an expert on matters on different economic systems, but in my normal social intercourse with my friends we discussed matters like that.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.

Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.