Matters Quotes

My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression.

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

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.

You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.

The belief in some being who can be the judge of all human matters is a very comfortable one - all wrongs will be righted and all rights will be rewarded.

In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.

Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.

After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

When you have a kid, money matters.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Remember that it is not where you come from, or not even where you are; it is where you are going that matters most.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope... It is not a reflection of all religious people.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don't listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They're looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did.

It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.

There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.

Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.

These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information.

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.

Conservatives who believe that the Constitution should be interpreted according to the plain meaning of its language and the original intent of the Framers have long been troubled by the court's decisions expanding the commerce clause to authorize Congress to regulate the most local of matters within a state's borders.

We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock.

We're trying to fix this with the plan we've been floating. Now, the law says the transition ends in 2006 or - and the "or" is the only part that matters - 85 percent of Americans go buy a digital TV.

Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then, he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters.

What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?