Matter Quotes

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.

Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide.

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

Well, for the reasons I mention above, although I am not sure the live shows were really so brilliant - but nobody could hear much so perhaps it did not matter! It was certainly a very exciting time for us all.

I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress.

One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.

Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.

It's all a matter of how agents want to handle their clients.

I'm at that point again where it don't matter where he is to me anymore.

I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin.

When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up-it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

Ella can work nightclubs that Duke might not be able to work, because of having the big band. Where they go now is strictly a matter of their own names and talents.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.

Style is primarily a matter of instinct.

Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job.

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

It doesn't matter what you're saying if you come from an honest place.

I know NBC pays my salary but I have never doubted who I work for. I think about the people who watch. They're the ones who matter to me.