Quotes About Matters

Don't ever joke about serious matters, it could become an issue, even a problem.

Huston Smith's book Why Religion Matters

Not giving a hoot would be a luxury. It describes the fine, irreverent carelessness I myself would like to cultivate, in these and other matters.

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.

I didn't want to talk about my past, and I didn't care about his. For any of us, it's who you are today that matters.

What have you? Have you anything at all that matters? Is that what comfort has given you-that you are dead at heart of self-satisfaction?

But joy, the joy you've known, the love you've known, that is what matters, and we, the conscious ones, the ones who can grieve, only we can know joy.

But if evil is without gradation, and it does exist, this state of evil, then only one sin is needed. Isn't that what you are saying? That God exists and.…' " 'I don't know if God exists,' I said. 'And for all I do know Ã¢â'¬Â¦ He doesn't exist.' " 'Then no sin matters,' he said. 'No sin achieves evil.

Were I not so busy with the matters of the Mayfair Witches," he wrote, "perhaps this disappearance would never have occurred. I might have been more attentive to D. during his time of transition. I might have held him more firmly in my affections and thereby earned more surely his complete trust. As it is, I can only surmise what has become of him, and I fear he has met with spirtual catastrophe quite against his will.

When you learn to listen to your fear, you've found a compass that can show you what matters.

When we find the empathy to say, "I'm sorry, this isn't for you, here's the phone number of my competitor," then we also find the freedom to do work that matters.

These are matters of life and death for our country and its people, and we deserve answers from Hillary Clinton.

Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.

I don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant one, matters.

Life is a series of tasks that you absolutely must get done before they don't matter any more.

We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.

So I sent Halt to straighten matters out. Thought it might be a good idea to give him something to keep him busy." So what's Digby got to complain about?" Rodney asked. It was obvious from his tone that he felt no sympathy for the recalcitrant commander of Barga Hold. The Baron gestured for Lady Pauline to explain. Apparently," she said,"Halt threw him into the moat.

However, unless there is a divinely appointed guardian of the sacred text, there is no positive assurance that in the course of time it would not be badly corrupted even in very important matters.

We didn't choose love; it chose us, right or wrong—and realizing this, for Brenda, was a kind of answered prayer. Love was all that mattered.

Transformation is now. Embrace this moment when you feel frustrated or uncertain and be the change right now. You don't have to wait. What you do today matters. It makes a difference. Everything you do makes a difference.

Nothing mitigated failure except the knowledge that it did not matter.

How often is such the case with us: some sore trial presses, and we cry unto God for relief, but before His answer comes, matters appear to get worse. Ah, that is in order that His hand may be the more evident.

So ambitious men, if they find the way open for their rising, and still get forward, they are rather busy than dangerous; but if they be checked in their desires, they become secretly discontent, and look upon men and matters with an evil eye, and are best pleased, when things go backward.