Matthew Quotes

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and 'going' with this girl, 'Is this true love?'

Procrastination is the seed of self destruction.

They eat, they crap, they sleep, and if they're crying they need to do one of the three and they're having trouble doing it. Real simple.

Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

It'd be cool to chipmunk-ize "The Virgin Suicides" soundtrack. All this ethereal French music, I think that would be unique to listen to.

I don't see myself as a pure fashion designer sending dress after dress down the runway but about wanting those watching my shows to aspire to a certain lifestyle.

A state of apostasy is worse than a state of ignorance.

Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints.

I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office!

The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.

Brotherly love is the badge of Christ's disciples.

Better to get up late and be wide awake then, than to get up early and be asleep all day.

Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.

There are thousands of grant programs and every program has different requirements and deadlines.

For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

A big part of finding the right resources is knowing what to look for and what to avoid.

Most every dental school has discount dental services.

Not offering this kind of guarantee means that they do not believe in their product enough, and they do not care about if a salesman is over promising or over selling their product.

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

When your vision is a biblical vision, the people arguing with it are not arguing with you. They are arguing with God.

I've dipped my toe into the beauty world and I'd like to keep it there!

Discipline is the path to happiness.

Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

Throughout my life I had wandered alone, trying to find pieces of me in any place I could and when it came down to it, I was nothing but a shell of missed opportunities.

I am not the same man you found that day! The monster you've created has returned, to kill you!

I can always look up at the cosmos and marvel, no matter what happens. And when I look up at it, I feel as though my problems are small. I don't know why, but it always makes me feel better.

Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.

To fish in troubled waters.

You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others.

I always think that I'm the best thing in a lot of bad movies. Personally, I have to. I think that I like me as an actor.

There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.

Your mother is risking a lot, because she believes in you.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.

I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.

I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.

In life, the hardest decisions often have to be made more than once. But each time, it gets easier.

See, 'A Time to Kill' was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.

There's two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.