Matter Quotes

It is not what you do, but what you stop doing that matters.

No matter how often you knock at nature's door, she won't answer in words you can understand--for Nature is dumb. She'll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn't expect a song.

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

If the kingdom of God is not first, it doesn't matter what's second.

You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

It does not matter what happens when we have gone.

I don't need the Ballon d'Or to know I'm the best. It matters more to some players

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

In the end, though, maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

I think we should all come together, and that race and color or social demographics really don't matter.

No matter what happens I'll keep on moving. Until this life runs out of me I'll keep on walking (Allen Walker)

Keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be.

it matters infinitely less what we do than what we are.

No matter how many weapons you have, no matter how great your technology might be, the world cannot live without love.

A cup brimful of sweetness cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, no matter how suddenly jarred.

No matter how hard it seems...never give up, always believe.

Chemistry begins in the stars. The stars are the source of the chemical elements, which are the building blocks of matter and the core of our subject.

It's not about what it looks like in the studio or on the runway. It's what it looks like on a real person that matters.

I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.

No individual or company, no matter how large or how profitable, is above the law.

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

When we come to the last moment of this lifetime and we look back across it, the only thing that's going to matter is 'What is the quality of our love?'

It doesn't matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be.

The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names.

In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about.

At the end of the day, if we don't win that game, we're going home, anyway, so what does it matter. I just wanted to be available, and it ended up to the point where I could help out tonight.

Any style that Nike makes in all black, shoe, sweatshirt, onesie, doesn't matter, I pretty much need to have.

It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock security of community that we and our children need.

All that matters is, how big do you want to dream, and how hard do you want to work?

To really achieve any level of greatness, you have to be willing to say yes no matter who says no, and to say no no matter who says yes.

Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.

No matter what barbershop you go to, there's always that guy who's just hanging around and doesn't do much, but knows everything that's going on in the community.

A song can be more than words and music ... when sung with soul a song carries you to another world, to a place where no matter how much pain you feel, you are never alone.

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

No matter how long the room has been dark, an hour or a million years, the moment the lamp of awareness is lit the entire room becomes luminous. You are that luminosity. You are that clear light.

No matter how horrid a person may appear on the surface, if you dig deeper, you will find some nice, unexpected little quality.

Angels and demons were identical--interchangeable archetypes--all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer.

Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.

Everyone doubts themselves. It's just a matter of admitting it or not.

No matter what anybody says, we can't have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet.

The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.

I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich.

No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.

This is a very serious matter, because it is our children who are the prize for this community, they are specifically targeting our children.

It is mostly a matter of wills. Whose will is going to break first? Ours or the enemy's?

You have everything you need. A miraculous body, a phenomenal brain, and a vast powerful subconscious mind. Now it's just a matter of focusing them in the right direction