Matters Quotes

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

My son is healthy and happy, so that's all that matters to me.

Killing more people won't help matters.

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.

All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possibly be, and that's the most important thing of all.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters.

Spiritual matters should be private.

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined in the 10th Amendment.

I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.

If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens on earth matters even more than we think, for the Christian life becomes a continuation of the unfolding work of Jesus, who will one day return to set the world to rights.

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

The will is what matters - as long as you have that, you are safe.

So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi; something with very important subject matters.

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.