Matters Quotes

Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

As long as you try your best, that is all that matters. You don't have to be the fastest runner or top of the class.

To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters.

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters.

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

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

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

I don't know if it matters what country you're from, size of the city you're from, urban or rural, there are people that are hurting each other everywhere.

It doesn't matter. What matters is that you're about to die.

Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.

When you have a kid, money matters.

Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.

The name on the front of the jersey is what really matters, not the name on the back.

The only thing that matters is the theater!

Killing more people won't help matters.

I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

What you believe, what you value, how you live, matters.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

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

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.

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

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.

Class still matters in Britain today.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Nothing else matters except that I have fun, and I'm still having fun.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.

There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.

Spiritual matters should be private.

When all else fails, complicate matters.

What we do and say and show really matters.

As long as you're feeling good with your weight and the way you look, that's what matters.

All that matters is that I stay healthy.

There's no such thing as median income; there's a curve, and it really matters what side of the curve you're on. There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.

There are hundreds of fine journalists who regularly inform us of what is happening in the world around us; and innumerable commentators who provide intelligent and objective insight on public policy matters.

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

It's the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and that's what matters.

Remember that it is not where you come from, or not even where you are; it is where you are going that matters most.

Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

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

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

It's not necessarily size that matters, it's how fast you move that implement.

In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing.

It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.

I get angry when I think that people are blatantly incorrect on matters of fact.

It matters more how one gives than what one gives.

It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.

I feel that it's the music, not anything else, that matters.

And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.

Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it's the feel that matters.

I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters.

Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues.

The long, forensic interview really matters.

I am fast and very powerful on the court, so this is what matters.

Well, it's a - I don't want to disappoint you, but it's a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters.

I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.

The clothes are not making me... If I like it, that's all that matters...It's not about the clothes. It's about how I am as a person and how confident I am.

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.