Matter Quotes - Page 31

• Time is the only commodity that matters.

  Randy Pausch

  Time Management, Commodity, Good Judgement

  15 Copy quote

• The happiest people spend much time in a state of flow - the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Inspirational, People, Cost

  13 Copy quote

• You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love, and they actually, sincerely believe you, you feel like a cockroach that needs some serious Raid action.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Lying, Believe, Want Something

  4 Copy quote

• Well, if there's an infinite amount of chances for something to happen, then eventually it will happen - no matter how small the likelihood.

  Alex Garland

  Chance, Infinite, Wells

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.62, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street

  Florence King

  Sex, Bed, Streets

  Florence King (1990). “Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady”, p.2, Macmillan

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sometimes I wonder how we can be so sure what it is God sees. How arrogant we are, I sometimes think, to imagine there's someone watching us every minute. To think our every action matters that much.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Thinking, Arrogant, Action

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2008). “Lost and Found: A Novel”, Little, Brown

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself

  Aidan Chambers

  Book, Needs, Speak

  Aidan Chambers (2010). “Postcards from No Man's Land”, p.271, Random House

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm someone who always comes on the court no matter what's going on in my life. It's all about basketball and my teammates and my team. I don't let any distractions in, and I bring my best every night, regardless of what's going on or what people are talking about.

  Kris Humphries

  Basketball, Team, Night

  6 Copy quote

• I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it.

  Jack Granatstein

  Thinking, Historian, Following

  4 Copy quote

• Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their family's income, it is a family issue.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Issues, Income, Fields

  8 Copy quote

• The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry

  Rosa DeLauro

  Oil, Giving, Energy

  8 Copy quote

• It does not matter how strong your gravity is, we were always meant to fly.

  Sarah Kay

  Strong, Doe, Gravity

  "Sarah Kay's Way with Words". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. June 13, 2013.

  59 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is hurt that cannot be fixed by band aids or poetrybecause no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I’ve tried.

  Sarah Kay

  Hurt, Pain, Believe

  Sarah Kay, “If I should have a daughter”

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I have inhibitions to fill all my pockets, I keep trying, hoping that one day I'll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed.

  Sarah Kay

  Writing, Museums, People

  "If I should have a daughter". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• No matter how widely you have travelled, you haven't seen the world if you have failed to look into the human hearts that inhabit it.

  Donald C. Peattie

  Heart, Looks, World

  8 Copy quote

• When today’s race is over, it's over. The only race that matters is the one coming up.

  Harry Gant

  Race, Today, Over It

  5 Copy quote

• Like the entomologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate and elegant shapes, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Butterfly, Garden, Grey Matter

  96 Copy quote

• You can put me in the basement or the penthouse, it doesn’t matter to me.

  Davy Jones

  Penthouses, Basements

  12 Copy quote

• I think it's really good that you have great competition among news networks, and for that matter all the networks in general. It's bringing more and more people in to watching the news.

  Walter Isaacson

  Thinking, People, Competition

  "Extended Interview: Walter Isaacson". "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 28, 2002.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe that the World Wide Web is, as a matter of fact, the noogenesis of the noosphere of the future. This is it!

  Ralph Abraham

  Believe, World, Facts

  12 Copy quote

• I believe that any candidate who supports the war should not receive our support. It doesn't matter if they're Senator Clinton or whoever

  Cindy Sheehan

  War, Believe, Uprising

  4 Copy quote

• Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.

  John Grierson

  People, Political, Conflict

  John Grierson (1966). “Grierson on Documentary”, p.207, Univ of California Press

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• You cannot be in the presence of God and be bored at the same time. For that matter, you cannot be in the will of God and be bored at the same time.

  Mark Batterson

  Bored, Gods Will, Presence Of God

  Mark Batterson (2013). “Going All In: One Decision Can Change Everything”, p.10, Zondervan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• At the heart of it all, Passion exists to see a generation stake their lives on what matters most. For us, that's the fame of the One who rescues and restores, and the privilege we have to fully leverage our lives by amplifying His name in everything we do.

  Louie Giglio

  Passion, Heart, What Matters

  10 Copy quote

• God spoke to me.” Don't let the voice of the darkness, tell you that you are not worth that God would not speak to you. Don't let him tell you, you don't matter. God spoke to you.

  Louie Giglio

  Voice, Darkness, Speak

  5 Copy quote