Matter Quotes - Page 39

• That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Lying, Fighting, May

  'The Grandmother' (1859) st. 8

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• RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Philosophy, Lying

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2504, Delphi Classics

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• No matter how much spin, effort, lunch or dinner you give the media, they will not fail to notice whether you have won or lost.

  Robin Renwick, Baron Renwick of Clifton

  Media, Lunch, Giving

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• There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed.

  Ricky Schroder

  Smile, Growing Up, Teenager

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• The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.

  W. Clement Stone

  Law, Lines, Uniforms

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• The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or position; geometrical lines are used, but these have no more real bearing on the matter than those employed in genealogical tables have in explaining the laws of procreation.

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Real, Math, Law

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• The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Learning, Political, Mind

  'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 6 (10 December 1774)

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• Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor one whose effects are more lasting. My education came from books, and they have been my companions by many campfires, in bunkhouses, ships' forecastles, in hotels and on planes. No matter where you find me, I am never far from a book.

  Louis L'Amour

  Book, Learning, Wish

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• Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.

  Kimon Nicolaides

  Learning, Mean, Eye

  Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge.

  John Zorn

  People, Spontaneity, Spontaneous

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• Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.

  Orson Pratt

  Intelligent, Space, Atoms

  Orson Pratt (2015). “The Kingdom of God, part 1”, p.18, Latter-day Strength

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• Wen you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but vether it's worth while goin' through so much to learn so little, as the charity-boy sand ven he go to the end of the alphabet, it's a matter of taste.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Marriage, Learning

  Charles Dickens (1993). “The Pickwick Papers”, p.350, Wordsworth Editions

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• No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.

  A. Ray Olpin

  Learning, Thinking, Years

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• The word 'art' is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one's work. I work for the pleasure, for the pleasure of the work, and everything else is a matter for the critics.

  Manuel Alvarez Bravo

  Photography, Art, Pleasure

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• No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away.

  David Matthews

  Hope, Dark, Night

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• No matter how good the pitcher, she is still hit-able in more than one way.

  Kiersten Warren

  Softball, Able, Way

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• We don't have to have blood relations in order to be brothers and sisters. Flesh and blood, those are just things that we're made of. In a real family, what matters is our hearts. We care, show concern and love. Anyone can be family too.

  Kim Da-hyun

  Brother, Real, Drama

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• A sack that can contain a person's greed...doesn't exist in this world. If your hearts not content, no matter how much you put in the sack, it's never enough.

  Seo Do-young

  Drama, Heart, Greed

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• Love is... what I gave you, Noona. That is love. After you lost it, you realized how precious it was. You're regretting it to the degree you could vomit blood. No matter what price you have to pay, you want to find it again. That is love, right, Noona?

  Ma-Roo

  Regret, Drama, Love Is

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• It is said that when you miss someone... then love will come when you meet again... Just like the game of hide and seek, no matter where it hides or even if you can't see it... He must be there waiting somewhere for me...Amid the countless chaos... Just like the sincerest prayers... two people in love will surely meet again.

  Oh Eun-young

  Missing Someone, Prayer, Drama

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• It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and overlook its pervasive role in shaping human understanding and artistic expression thereof within any given culture-regardless of the subject matter at hand.

  John Walford

  Religious, Art, Expression

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• Human myopia cannot be overcome simply by well-meaning attempts to build [climate] models that purport to peer decades and centuries ahead. Action taken now, in anticipation of supposed long run trends, may concentrate on the wrong issues and make matters worse rather than better.

  Colin Robinson

  Running, Taken, Issues

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• Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.

  Rose Macaulay

  Nursing, Differences, Age

  Dame Rose Macaulay (2016). “Dangerous Ages”, p.165, Read Books Ltd

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• No matter what nationality or color is champion, we Irish like to say that we have a heavyweight champion, Gene Tunney retired, who can come back and take the title at any time.

  Tommy Gibbons

  Color, Boxing, Heavyweights

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• The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin.

  Jessie Andrews

  People, Age, Violin

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