Matters Quotes

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters.

The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters.

Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel.

The only thing that matters is that we stand firm.

And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most.

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues.

Obama is not only obstructing budget reform; it's almost as if he is trying to make matters worse.

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.

I am fast and very powerful on the court, so this is what matters.

What's very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship.

Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.

You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.

What matters to us, the judgment of men? What have we to doubt, since we are pure before life?

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.

You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.

And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.

When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life. That's all that matters.