Quotes About Matters

Ultracrepidarianism: the habit of giving opinions and advice on matters outside of one's knowledge or competence.

Mister didn't come with me on cases, being above such trivial matters, but he found me pleasant company when I was at home and not moving around too much, except when he didn't, in which case he went rambling

And you both hurt each other terribly, because you're family. Because what you say and do matters so much more than anyone else.

Aging and its evidence remain life's most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.

Aging and its evidence remain life's most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored: I have watched tears flood the eyes of grown women, loved women, women of talent and accomplishment, for no reason other than that a small child in the room, more often than not an adored niece or nephew, has just described them as "wrinkly," or asked how old they are.

Ambition is destruction only competence matters.

Yeah, being apathetic is a pathetic way to be... but I don't care, what matters to you does not matter to me

If being crazy means living a life as if it matters, then I don't care if we are completely insane.

Value your time. Do something that really matters to you. Don't waste your time to something that has no value. Your time is very precious.

One did not depend on marines for good table manners. One depended on them to have the right instincts when it came to matters of life and death.

People had stances, they threw out opinions, they made ferocious noises, but decisions were often made in a flurry of competing silences, and what was not said mattered more than what was.

It regulates what some consider the most private matters, such as human sexuality. Many people think that sexuality is their own business, but the Bible prescribes exact instructions and precepts on the subject, now exhorting and commanding, now forbidding and condemning.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

A whole community perpetually imploring us not to be immoderate and screw up, imploring us to grasp opportunity, exploit our advantages, remember what matters.

Love, too, is why I believe. At the end of life, what else matters?

Nothing in the world matter more than life. You have a long road to walk and a lot of lessons to learn if you don't know that.

None of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking; indeed, one could almost define the things that mattered as the ones that came as suddenly as thunder.

William Henley put it: It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.

The difference between the two classes is often a trivial concern; but in a state, and when affecting really important matters, becomes of all disorders the most hateful.

If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge? Why would the effort matter? What would be the point? - Odd Thomas

If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge, why would the effort matter, what would be the point.

Futility. Uselessness. Bloody entrophy. Death matters, at least sometimes.

Pfft," Fergus said, and pulled the cork. "In these times, there's little one can do that isn't dangerous. If I'm going to be killed for something, I should like it to be something that matters. If it's entertaining, so much the better.

While I am lucky to be associated with people who believe in content, all that matters is your talent and box-office results.