Matter Quotes

Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.

People who are running for office mislead the American people by saying that there's a three-point plan or a bumper sticker kind of way of bringing down gasoline prices. The fact of the matter is that nobody can do that. The price of oil is set on the global economy. People who have looked at this closely and hard know that's the case.

In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.

Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses.

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.

I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan. We know they are seeking deadlier weapons - chemical, biological and nuclear weapons if they can get it.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

Nobody's got it made. Nobody, no matter what they look like.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

You can spend all the money in the world. If you've got a bad product, it doesn't matter.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers.

I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.

It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.

Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.

I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

As a matter of fact I don't like politics. I really don't. I think it's so jaded now and everybody has to follow the party line.

No matter how long what I'm doing here lasts, I want to be a songwriter for the rest of my life. I love it and it's my escape.

I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.

It never became an act in the sense of an act. It was always, no matter where we worked, little revues.

No matter where you from, there's ghettos all over the place.

No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for: it is a thing to be achieved.