Quotes About Matters

Son, a blessing favors them that needs it. Don't matter how it comes. It just matters that it does.

We were told by President Obama that in respect of international trade, we would have to get to the back of the queue - not a position that America normally requires the United Kingdom to be in when it comes to other matters, such as the Iraq War.

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.

The media is a like any other group of people. Their universe is all that matters.

When you are talking about human emotions, stardom doesn't matter.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul.

In matters of state, one has to be full of sentiments, but one can never be sentimental.

I'm very much a believer that it's action that matters much more so than, you know, the flurry of political promises and statements and slogans that are used during political campaigns.

The world has plenty of noise, Julian, but not many voices. And because there are so few, each one matters. . . That's my argument. The simple fact that we need people who remind us of the darkness.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Of all the innocent passions which actuate the human mind there is none more universally prevalent than curiosity. It reaches all mankind, and in matters which concern us, or concern us not, it alike provokes in us a desire to know them.

It is always the interest of a far greater number of people in a nation to have things right, than to let them remain wrong; and when public matters are open to debate, and the public judgment free, it will not decide wrong, unless it decides to hastily.

Because there is such disagreement among the learned about these abstruse matters, we will consider them no further.

I did get introduced to the financial markets while I was in college. And I think I learned also how to sort of filter out all of the nonrational, or nonsensible, noise and sort of concentrate on what matters, and that's really what markets are about.

What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.

Actors are the most important. Performance is what matters. Nothing matters more than the actors; they have to perform. No one else can give life to the characters. Audiences must believe the characters as real and the moments as real.

Since I don't have actual authority over anybody, Petra, how can it possibly matter if I'm not legitimately authorized?

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

If they were afloat on the sea, and blind in the fog — they didn't even know what direction they should turn in. What then did it matter that she knew reading and writing, or that he had been caught out in a plot against his overlord?

It's what endures through one's life that matters; my own life matters to me, in its long continuance and development. But what do the occasional connections matter? And the occasional sexual connections especially! If people don't exaggerate them ridiculously, they pass like the mating of the birds. And so they should. What does it matter? It's the life-long companionship that matters. It's the living together from day to day, not the sleeping together once or twice.

I was also told that the Eihei Daishingi (Regulations for Eiheiji Monastery), of which the Tenzo Ky?kun is the first chapter, was one of the easier works of D?gen, since it deals with practical matters.

In explaining the amazing mechanisms of life, little things matter. And very little things matter a lot.

International law is useful in regulating fishery rights off Newfoundland but they have nothing to say about matters of war and peace, particularly between civilized states and terrorist states.