Matters Quotes

The will is what matters - as long as you have that, you are safe.

So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi; something with very important subject matters.

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

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.

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

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.

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined in the 10th Amendment.

I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens on earth matters even more than we think, for the Christian life becomes a continuation of the unfolding work of Jesus, who will one day return to set the world to rights.

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them.

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

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.