Quotes about matter

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“Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.”

“That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed.”

“What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.”

“To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.”

“Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.”

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself. In all matters of discovery and invention, even of those that appertain to the imagination, we are continually reminded of the story of Columbus and his egg. Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it.”

“There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size.”

“But where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.”

“No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.”

“Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.”

“I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.”

“No matter who you are, there is some part of you that always wishes you were someone else.”

“There is always something to miss, no matter where you are.”

“Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.”

“No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you're screwed because it's all fixed and rigged. There is a club and you ain't in it.”

“It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.”

“What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have.”

“The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.”

“Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.”

“No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself.”

“Excuse me, Captain. Are you two going to weep salty tears of admiration over a helmet all night, or do we have matters to discuss?”

“The journey, Not the destination matters…”

“What the matter, Zarek? You afraid to die? (Thanatos)
Dying’s easy. It’s living that’s hard. (Zarek)”

“Does trust have to be earned? Or is it simply a matter of faith?”

“You have to remember… that for this little boy whom you have met, his life is just as important to him, as your life is to you. No matter how insufficient or how shabby it may seem to some, it is the only one he has.”

“No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing.".”

“It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.”

“You are ugly now, on the inside, where it matters most… you are beastly.”

“It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on to a brighter world.”

“For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter.”

“A beautiful thing is precious no matter the price”

“It didn’t matter, anyway. There was only one thing she could ask for, in the end, only one real choice.
She raised her eyes to the Angel’s.
"Jace," she said.”

“What Jack didn't understand was that no matter where he went, the same asshole got off the plane.”

“Never be afraid to tell me anything,” he whispered against her hair. “No matter how ashamed you might feel. I’ll never judge you, Rachel. I love you.”

“True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.”

“If you see your brother in need, it doesn't matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the idea of God using you to meet your brother's unexpected need.”

“Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.”

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

“No matter where we live on the planet or how difficult our situation seems to be, we have the ability to overcome and transcend our circumstances.”

“Nothing like being with people you’ve known almost your entire life. Having a shared history is something you just can’t create with the new ones. No matter how much you like that, it just isn’t the same.”

“No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside.”

“Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.”

“Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days.”

“Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.”

“No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly, our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of the earth to the things of heaven.”

“So long as you do no harm to another, change your opinion once in a while. Contradict yourself without being embarrassed. This is your right. It doesn't matter what others think -because that's what they will think, in any case.”

“I read the first chapter ofwhen Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn't even matter if I existed at all.”

“You'll be okay. No matter what shape reality takes, you can handle it.”

“It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.”

“No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.”

“The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.”

“Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character.”

“No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.”

“Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.”

“As many times as I told her she was beautiful, I know that she never believed me. As many times as I said it didn’t matter, I knew that to her it did.”

“No matter how quiet and conformist a person’s life seems, there’s always a time in the past when they reached an impasse. A time when they went a little crazy. I guess people need that sort of stage in their lives.”

“The only
thing that matters my goal my reward my beginning my end is the work itself.
My work done my way.
A private personal selfish egotistical motivation. That’s the
only way I function. That’s all I am.”

“To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.”

“You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.”

“Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.'
'You think so?'
'I'm quite sure. If you don't it doesn't matter. Nothing will matter then.”

“It doesn't matter! From waist down, my best friend is a donkey…..”

“No matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.”

“The police are asking through the bedroom door, why did I make a batch of strawberry daiquiris before I called them?
Because we were out of raspberries.
Because, can't they see, it just does not matter. Time was not of the essence.”

“It doesn’t matter. I love you. That’s it. That’s all. I hope to hell it’s enough.”

“We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.”

“What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?”

“no matter how big you think your problems are, someone else's problems could always be bigger, which makes yours relatively small!”

“No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's still going to be you underneath.”

“They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.”

“Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.”

“I want you too much. I want you with me, in my life, in my bed. If i can have that, nothing else matters.”

“All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.”

“When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.”

“He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.”

“Goodbye," I whisper at last, when it no longer matters and there is no one to hear it but the window.”

“Isn’t it funny to think that this magnificent piece of matter is in a state of decay? Really, can you think of any other living thing that looks this glorious as it’s dying?”

“Painting is not very difficult when you don't know how; but when you know, oh! then, it's another matter.”

“How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage, for that matter.”

“what did wards matter when you could create your own reality just by drawing it?”

“The magic of sex is it's acquisition without the burden of possession. No matter how many women you take home, there's never a storage problem.”

“Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me.”

“The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.”

“I'll write this all down for you," I said. "I'll put it in a story." I don't know if that's what he wanted to ask me, but it's something everybody wants--for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.”

“A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty.”

“But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe…”

“There's something about a roof isn't there? It makes you feel like it doesn't matter what's going on below. All of those things that get in the way of your dreams - you're above them. Anything is possible.”

“So release yourself from that. Don't be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word 'love' to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.”

“He can't really love anyone, you know, and in the end such people are always alone, no matter how much other people once loved them.”

“It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.”

“If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.”

“Faith means that it doesn't matter what happens. You can trust that somebody is watching. Trust that somebody will make it all right.”

“Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.”

“Some hurts can never be mended" he said. "No matter how much time passes. They tattoo themselves on our souls”

“But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.”

“I will do what I promised." He whispered. "No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.”

“Will you give the girl to me?" she said. "Will you let me try?"
He nodded, dizzy with relief. "Please, Willo. Please. Save her. It doesn't matter… what happens to me.”

“Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap.”

“Try to remember the moment when all the stupid innocent things you thought about life and love, all the things you thought mattered, all the things you though were true… try to remember when they all turned out to be lies. —Kyle”

“Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.”