Matthew Quotes
Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.
Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.
Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.
A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.
Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it.
Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame.
The meek are those who quietly submit themselves to God, to His Word and to His rod, who follow His directions, and comply with His designs, and are gentle toward all men.
Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.
I once gave a girl a bloody fake ear in a Tiffany jewelry box with a letter that said, “will you Gogh to prom with me?
Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.
I'm usually pretty lame when it comes to physical activity, but I'm like a Jedi on the badminton court. It's as if my body was built specifically for it - tall and lanky, with wrists like mousetraps.
All this going around is not aggression. If you want to see aggression on cricket field, look into Rahul Dravid’s eyes
Thought determines action. Do not let your whole life be a reaction to the things that happen around you each day. Let your life be an action.
In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice.
Alan Rickman told me to do a play, so I did. Because when Alan Rickman tells you do something, you go and do it.
We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.
My heroes have always been the hardworking and unflappable. Those who light a candle rather than curse the darkness.
Every endeavour pursued with passion produces a successful outcome, regardless of the result. For it is not about winning or losing – rather, the effort put forth in producing the outcome.
It's a fun day, a day which kicks off the start of our tour, it's got great tradition - Australian cricketers just love tradition - and it's been a really pleasant day.
Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs.
He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.
The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: 'If the door's shut, don't come a-knockin.' But if it's open and you're walkin' by, feel free to say, 'Hello.'
Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!
Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.
We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.
An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.
Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge - today's mass culture, which aims to produce a lot of consuming morons.
Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.
I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.
Collect moments rather than things. Moments get away.
Character is built little by little, over days, weeks, months, and years, with thousands of small and seemingly insignificant acts of discipline.
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.