Matter Quotes

What people really want to know from their doctor is, are you going to make me feel better? And what they really want to know from a president are, are you going to give me some security when it comes to my work? Because if I'm not working, my family is in trouble. And when I am working, the fact of the matter is, my whole family is doing better.

Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.

I think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all human beings, and for that matter anything in this universe.

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do.

I think prime ministers, I actually think Cabinet ministers should be subject to intense scrutiny, I think that's in the public interest, even if some of the allegations made aren't right and so on, and they have to correct the record, it doesn't matter.

Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.

I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act.

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

Most men, no matter how well or badly dressed, carry overstuffed, beat up wallets that should have been replaced years ago. Why is that? Every time I see a guy take out a wallet anywhere, it looks like a piece of old melted chocolate cake-with strings.

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

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

Yeah, Jacob transforms a lot in 'New Moon.' Not only physically, but mentally and emotionally as well. So it was a matter of getting to the gym and eating the right foods and a lot of it. But also, reading and studying the book and my character over and over and over again so I could have his character down as well.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

It doesn't matter whether I qualify or wildcards.

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.

Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.

At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink.

If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.