Matter Quotes - Page 11

• Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to yield; or to sink out of life, having played and lost the game? That must be a strange feeling, when a day of our life comes and we say, 'To-morrow, success or failure won't matter much; and the sun will rise, and all the myriads of mankind go to their work or their pleasure as usual, but I shall be out of the turmoil.'

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Brother, Games, Yield

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.511

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• I am in the present and only the present matters to me

  Ariane Mnouchkine

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

  David Brooks

  Way, Born

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• When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

  David Brooks

  Character, Ideas, Knowing

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• We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Tunes, Might, Corny

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• Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Law, Littles, Accomplish

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.66, Vintage

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• Moreover, I want us to urge political and religious leaders, and all peoples of the world, to move forward in a conciliatory spirit, to deal with religious matters in a responsible and balanced way, and to focus on their common grounds.

  Alcee Hastings

  Religious, Moving, Political

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• I mean, the fact of the matter is, Ohio 's coming back because we set a clear path, we cut taxes , we balanced our budget , we got credit upgrades when the whole rest of the world , including America , was being downgraded.

  John Kasich

  Mean, Cutting, Ohio

  "Durbin, Kasich debate economy, election". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. April 8, 2012.

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• I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

  Warren Zevon

  Teacher

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• I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

  Glenn Frey

  Dad, Useless, Never Change

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• No matter where you are in life, no matter what you’ve contributed to creating, no matter what’s happening, you are always doing the best you can with the understanding and awareness and knowledge that you have. And when you know more, you will do differently, as I did

  Louise Hay

  Creating, Understanding, Awareness

  Louise L. Hay (1991). “The Power Is Within You”, p.26, Hay House, Inc

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• This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.

  Mort Sahl

  Practice, Two Sides, Logic

  Mort Sahl (1976). “Heartland”, New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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• We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law, or reading or playing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings.

  Clarence Darrow

  Reading, Law, Two

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• I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlements, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests.

  James F. Cooper

  Book, Men, Doubt

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• But that's kind of an easy stance to be if you're a humor columnist, because you're tending to make fun of the government and the powerful. I'm sort of a soft-core libertarian in that my compass is generally pointing away from 'Let's let the government do this' Does it matter to me that it's Democrats who think we need more elaborate programs that involve shifting money from one group to another group or it's Republicans saying we need to take a harder look at what kinds of things people are watching on cable TV? Neither one of those things strikes me as a good idea.

  Dave Barry

  Fun, Powerful, Thinking

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• All that matters is that I stay healthy.

  Alessandra Ambrosio

  Healthy

  WWD Interview, wwd.com. March 15, 2010.

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

  Alessandra Ambrosio

  What Matters, Long, Feel Good

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise

  Caitlin Moran

  Thinking, Screw Ups, Paradise

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• Part of paying the price is the willingness to do whatever it takes to get the job done. It comes from a declaration that you are going to get it done no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, no matter what comes up.

  Jack Canfield

  Jobs, Long, Done

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• If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.

  Jack Canfield

  Fall, Tree, Redwoods

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• True prosperity is an incredible gift. It's a gift YOU deserve. And no matter what anyone says, it's a gift that IS available to you - right now.

  Joe Vitale

  Prosperity, Incredibles, Right Now

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• With photography, everything is in the eye and these days I feel young photographers are missing the point a bit. People always ask about cameras but it doesn't matter what camera you have. You can have the most modern camera in the world but if you don't have an eye, the camera is worthless. Young people know more about modern cameras and lighting than I do. When I started out in photography I didn't own an exposure meter - I couldn't , they didn't exist! I had to guess.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Eye, People

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• No episode is a priori condemned to remain an episode forever, for every event, no matter how trivial, conceals within itself the possibility of sooner or later becoming the cause of other events and thus changing into a story or an adventure. Episodes are like land mines. The majority of them never explode, but the most unremarkable of them may someday turn into a story that will prove fateful to you.

  Milan Kundera

  Adventure, Land, Forever

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• What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.

  John Ortberg

  What Matters, Accomplishment, Achieve

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• When anything good happens to you in your day, give thanks. It doesn't matter how small it is, say thank you. When you get the perfect parking space, hear your favorite song on the radio, approach a light that turns green, or find an empty seat on the bus or train, say thank you. These are all good things that you are receiving from life.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Song, Space

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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