Matters Quotes
My intention always has been to arrive at human contact without enforcing authority. A musician, after all, is not a mili- tary officer. What matters most is human contact. The great mys- tery of music making requires real friendship among those who work together. Every member of the orchestra knows I am with him and her in my heart.
Carlo Maria Giulini
When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.
Aristotle
I’m always interested in films that are about extreme subject matters.
Nicole Kidman
Thus it happens in matters of state; for knowing afar off (which it is only given a prudent man to do) the evils that are brewing, they are easily cured. But when, for want of such knowledge, they are allowed to grow so that everyone can recognize them, there is no longer any remedy to be found.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.
James Hutton
Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.
Jane Austen
Cutting down on water use doesn't mean cutting down on outdoor activities or neglecting your lawn. These are simple steps that keep water use low when it matters the most.
John Young
With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.
Galileo Galilei
All that matters in life," the grey man went on, "is to climb the ladder of success, amount to something, own things. When a person climbs higher than the rest, amounts to more, owns more things, everything else comes automatically: friendship, love, respect, et cetera..." "Isn't there anyone who loves you?" Momo whispered.
Michael Ende
There are different kinds of motivation, and the kind matters more than the amount.
Alfie Kohn
Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
You're still alive. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really matters.
Nicholas Sparks
From my perspective it matters what we do, not what we say. It mattered that we got Bin Laden, not the name we called him.
Hillary Clinton
You can make yourself crazy, refiguring it all after the fact. You did what you thought was best at the time. You helped a friend. That’s what matters.
Craig Lancaster
Iverson: Man look, I hear you... it's funny to me too, I mean it's strange... it's strange to me too, but we're talking about practice man, we're not even talking about the game... the actual game, when it matters... We're talking about practice ...
Allen Iverson
I don't know how you're standing here. Yet you haven't broken. Not where it matters. Having come this far, I'm not sure you can be broken.
Brandon Mull
All the hovering angels were gone. He thought maybe there had been a funeral. Someone had died. Everything was black—the sky, the clothes he was wearing, his heart.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
