Matter Quotes - Page 38

• There are substantial rewards for adopting a regular routine of investing and following it no matter what, and additional rewards for buying more shares when most investors are scared into selling.

  Peter Lynch

  Routine, Investing, Rewards

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• The Russell Cosmogony with its new concepts of light, matter, energy, electricity and magnetism is a simple yet complete, consistent and workable cosmogony which will enable future scientists to visualize the universe as a unified whole, and will open the door to the New Age of Transmutation.

  Walter Russell

  Simple, Light, Doors

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• The power of both myth and art is this magical ability to open doors, to make connections - not only between us and the natural world, but between us and the rest of humanity. Myths show us what we have in common with every other human being, no matter what culture we come from, no matter what century we live in. . .and at the same time, mythic stories and art celebrate our essential differences.

  Alan Lee

  Art, Differences, Doors

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• Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Editors, Saws, Looks

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• I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Thinking, Trouble, Subjects

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• I can't tell you how much time is spent worrying about decisions that don't matter. To just be able to make a decision and see what happens is tremendously empowering, but that means you have to set up the situation such that when something does go wrong, you can fix it.

  Ward Cunningham

  Mean, Worry, Empowering

  "Collective Ownership of Code and Text: A Conversation with Ward Cunningham, Part II". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. December 01, 2003.

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• No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Winning, Escaping, Law

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• As a very young man I signed a declaration - 'I renounce war and will never support another'. That was in 1939 and I have maintained this stand throughout the whole period, including WW2, as a Conscientious Objector.Worked to achieve Peace since. It is necessary for individuals to take this stand and maintain it. War never solves anything - it accentuates any problem, whatever it is, and makes matters worse. There is no moral or humanitarian justification for it.

  Donald Saunders

  War, Men, Support

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• Age doesn't matter. Obstacles don't matter. Winning is the challenge. Bottom line, inspiring others is the goal.

  Glenn Allison

  Winning, Goal, Challenges

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• No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.

  Ogden Nash

  Grief, Dark, Pits

  Ogden Nash (1954). “Many long years ago”

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• For the truth is that I already know as much about my fate as I need to know. The day will come when I will die. So the only matter of consequence before me is what I will do with my allotted time. I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.

  Richard Bode

  Fate, Risk, Sailing

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• On your 60th, here's something philosophical
  To give the old grey matter a stir
  How old would you be
  If you didn't know how old you were?

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Philosophical, Grey Matter

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• Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Light, Opposites

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• Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Mean, Squirrels, Laughing

  Nâzım Hikmet, Mutlu Konuk Blasing (1994). “Poems of Nazim Hikmet”

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• Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts. All our concepts and beliefs, no matter how profound they may seem, are like nets which trap us in dualism. When we discover our limits we have to try to overcome them, untying ourselves from whatever type of religious, political, or social conviction may contain us. We have to abandon such concepts as 'enlightenment', 'the nature of the mind', and so on, until we no longer neglect to integrate our knowledge with our actual existence.

  Namkhai Norbu

  Religious, Real, Roots

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• I will love you if you are stupid, if you slip and fall on your face, if you do the wrong thing, if you make mistakes, if you behave like a human being — I will love you no matter.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Mistake, Humans

  "Living, Loving & Learning".

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• Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Income, Temperament, Artistic Temperament

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.

  Ernestine Rose

  Book, Rights, Letters

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority.

  Julius Wellhausen

  Finals, Normal, Authority

  Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

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• Killing more people won't help matters.

  Jeannette Rankin

  People, Helping, Killing

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• Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.

  Nick Clooney

  Historical, Might, Should

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• The self is fundamentally an illusion arising as a reflection of the soul in matter, much as a clear lake at midnight reflects the moon.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Moon, Reflection, Self

  Fred Alan Wolf (1999). “The Spiritual Universe: One Physicists Vision of Spirit, Soul, Matter, and Self”, p.26, Red Wheel/Weiser

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• There is a spiritual capacity in carbon as there is a carbon component functioning in our highest spiritual experience. If some scientists consider that all this is merely a material process, then what they call matter, I call mind, soul, spirit, or consciousness. Possibly it is a question of terminology, since scientists too on occasion use terms that express awe and mystery. Most often, perhaps, they use the expression that some of the natural forms they encounter seem to be "telling them something."

  Thomas Berry

  Spiritual, Expression, Soul

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.25, Crown

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• O soul, be patient: thou shalt find A little matter mend all this; Some strain of music to thy mind, Some praise for skill not spent amiss.

  Robert Bridges

  Music, Skills, Soul

  Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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• Only he can judge of matters great and high whose soul is likewise.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Judging, Soul

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