Matters Quotes

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.

A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit.

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

It is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and ends are far too important for any such calculations.

As soon as I step on that stage, nothing matters. I don't think of it as work. It's just so much fun.

I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.

The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death.

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.

The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes.

It is only those who believe in their ability who shine when it matters.

I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.

I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.

It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.

So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy.

Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

Our country is not in crisis; there are no tanks in the streets. No matter what the outcome of the president's situation, life in America will go on. Our lives will continue to be filled with practical matters, not constitutional ones.