Matters Quotes

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that he left behind. If we can get the life in relation to the works, then it can take off.

The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments.

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

Once you get on the playing field it's not about whether you're liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That's what it's about.

It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.

It doesn't matter if I don't succeed in something, what matters is that I learn from my mistakes.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

If it matters, it produces controversy.

But music raises a lot of issues. Music is something that matters to people a lot, and they put a lot of passion into it. And I think when you have an area like that, you're gonna find a lot of issues coming up.

You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.

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.

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

It doesn't matter. What matters is that you're about to die.