Matters Quotes

Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.

Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.

My kids have been incredibly supportive of the work that I do. They understand why it matters.

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.

Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.

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

I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We're also supporting processes to ensure that the political dialogue among the Congolese themselves takes place so that the people there can decide their future.

Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues.

We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.

Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.

The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.

It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come.

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'.

I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

To love what you do and feel that it matters how could anything be more fun?

We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters.

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.