Matters Quotes

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters.

Spiritual matters should be private.

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.

Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth.

For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place.

I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.

Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.

Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

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.

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.

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.

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.