Matter Quotes - Page 20

• What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality.

  Arthur Hopcraft

  Football, People, Alcohol

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• Dear, if you are dead or alive, I will still love you no matter what.

  Graham Earl

  Love You, Alive, Dear

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• I kinda flirt with everything and everyone, no matter if it's a tree or a coffee cup. I can't resist.

  Mika

  Coffee, Flirting, Tree

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• Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself the right story about it, which is one thing that Lewis's child characters have learned from reading, 'the right books.

  Laura Miller

  Children, Book, Reading

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• No matter how many good deeds we preform, they aren’t the ticket to earning God’s favor. God graces us in spite of what we do in this life, not because of.

  Bill Courtney

  Grace, Deeds, Favors

  Bill Courtney (2014). “Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love”, p.187, Weinstein Publishing

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• We will learn no matter what! Learning is as natural as rest or play. With or without books, inspiring trainers or classrooms, we will manage to learn. Educators can, however, make a difference in what people learn and how well they learn it. If we know why we are learning and if the reason fits our needs as we perceive them, we will learn quickly and deeply.

  Malcolm Knowles

  Book, Play, Differences

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• A meal can be thought of as a ritual and a work of art, with limits laid down, desires aroused and fulfilled, enticements, variety, patterning and plot. As in a work of art, not only the overall form, but also the details matter intensely.

  Margaret Visser

  Art, Desire, Details

  Margaret Visser (2015). “The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• So acknowledge here to yourself, ‘I am unique, and while there may be someone who is better than me at this or that, it doesn’t matter because they’re not me. So no matter what, they’ll never do it like me because that’s impossible.’ So embrace the quirks, embrace your individuality, embrace where you are in life. No one else is like you, and that is special, and that is unique.

  Kathryn Budig

  Unique, Individuality, Special

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• You may lose people you love. You may lose things you had.. but no matter what, never lose yourself.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Love You, People, May

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• The difference between my world record and many world class runners is mental fortitude. I ran believing in mind over matter.

  Derek Clayton

  Believe, Differences, Class

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• Women should be women and not babies that need petting and correction all the time. I know we like to be appreciated but if we do not get all the appreciation which we think is our due, what matters? We know the Lord has laid high responsibility upon us, and there is not a wish or desire that the Lord has implanted in our hearts in righteousness but will be realized, and the greatest good we can do to ourselves and each other is to refine and cultivate ourselves in everything that is good and ennobling to qualify us for those responsibilities.

  Eliza R. Snow

  Baby, Appreciation, Heart

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• If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter.

  Itzhak Bentov

  Fashion, Brain, Body

  Itzhak Bentov (1988). “Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

  T. D. Jakes

  People

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• It doesn't matter how your child comes to you. I've never felt such joy and such love. It's the most beautiful delicious little thing.

  Didi

  Beautiful, Children, Joy

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• When you sit in America you miss the open plains and you miss the sound of rain and the smell of rain and the smell of the veld. If you're African it's different and I don't think one will ever become an American or British. It doesn't matter where you move, you will always be a South African.

  Zola Budd

  Rain, Moving, Thinking

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• There is no technical reason why we could not feed a world of nine billion people. Hunger is a matter of buying power, not of shortages.

  Louise Fresco

  People, World, Nine

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• But I think if you treat people well, they embrace you. The other stuff, it just doesn't matter.

  Kenneth Faried

  Thinking, People, Stuff

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• Any time a boy is ready to learn about guns is the time he’s ready, no matter how young he is, and you can’t start too young to learn how to be careful.

  Robert Ruark

  Gun, Boys, Young

  Robert Ruark (2016). “Old Man’s Boy Grows Up”, p.279, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Every day is a miracle. No matter how bad my
  circumstances, I have the freedom to choose my
  attitude to life, even to find joy. Evil is not new.
  It is up to us how we deal with both good and bad.
  No one can take this power away from us.

  Alice Herz-Sommer

  Attitude, Evil, Joy

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• We need from every man who aspires to leadership-for himself
  and his company-a determination to undertake a personal
  program of self-development. Nobody is going to order a man
  to develop .... Whether a man lags behind or moves ahead in
  his specialty is a matter of his own personal application. This is something which takes time, work, and sacrifice. Nobody can do
  it for you.

  Ralph J. Cordiner

  Determination, Moving, Sacrifice

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• All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to be.

  Allan Massie

  Real, Character, People

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• The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to antiquarians and biologists, for both the god and the unicorn had a business to perform greater than any mere existence in the flesh could explain or provide a basis for.

  Odell Shepard

  May, Flesh, Unicorn

  Odell Shepard (1930). “The lore of the unicorn”, Outlet

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• The idea of beauty does not descend into matter unless this is prepared as carefully as possible. This preparation consists of three things: arrangement, measure, and aspect or form.

  Nicolas Poussin

  Ideas, Preparation, Doe

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• The great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness. All that we want is discussion; and then we are sure to do well, no matter what our blunders may be. One error conflicts with another, each destroys its opponent, and truth is evolved.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Errors, Enemy, May

  Henry Thomas Buckle (1861). “History of civilization in England”, p.518

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• It doesn't matter what you are wearing-if you have good shoes and a good bag, you'll look right.

  Tamara Mellon

  Shoes, Bags, Looks

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