Quotes About Matter

I was foolish and young, before that, viewing the matter closely, I saw what it is to beget children.

Life opened up in one if its amazing bursts of radiance and Amory suddenly and permanently rejected an old epigram that had been playing listlessly in his mind: 'Very few things matter and nothing matters very much.' On the contrary, Amory felt an immense desire to give people a sense of security.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Personality is a physical matter almost entirely; it lowers the people it acts on - I've seen it vanish in a long sickness. But while a personality is active, it overrides 'the next thing.' Now a personage, on the other hand, gathers. He is never thought of apart from what he's done. He's a bar on which a thousand things have been hung — glittering things sometimes, as ours are; but he uses those things with a cold mentality back of them.

The issue is not the issue," meaning the real conflict is not over any particular matter or dispute. "The issue is power.

To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.

Een ding is het snijpunt van drie lijnen en die drie lijnen samen vormen het ding: een hoeveelheid materie, de wijze waarop wij die interpreteren, en de omgeving waarin ze zich bevindt.

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

A film should always at least be about something.

The truth of the matter is, I'm a filmmaker.

I know the college rule is if they push you out of bounds, you can come back in and catch the ball, but I think the NFL rule is it doesn't matter how you get out of bounds, you can't be the first one to touch the ball. That's what I think it is, I'm not really sure on that.

I can't remember exactly, but the White House is not keen on people going on Fox News. It's my view that while people in the administration feel that Fox News doesn't give them a fair shake, the fact of the matter is there are a lot of people who watch Fox News.

The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.

The distinctions of what makes a book one genre or another can sometimes be a bit muddy, but generally it's a matter of projecting who the audience will be, which is a judgment that's based on the subject matter. 'Mainstream' is the cleanest label for a book that draws readers of both sexes and from a wide age-range.

The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.

But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths.

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

Matter is a term contrary to soul. But nonsoul is its contradictory. Whatever is not soul is nonsoul.

The imaginations of believers have dressed up and exaggerated the excellence of the style and matter of the New Testament generally, in the same manner, in which they have the moral instructions of Jesus.

It's a small matter, but one which I think shouldn't be overlooked. - Oh Yes? And that is? - That is the simple matter that time travel is an impossibility, you craven buffoon! - Not with the latest miracle of modern horticulture...Gentlemen, please allow me to introduce you to THE TIME SPROUT ! 'Pleased to be here' said the vegetable in question.

People, my dear, are little children at heart. We all want to be loved and wanted and cherished. We want to know we matter to others, and they're glad we're here. That's the best gift you can give someone. That's all really we can ever give. To tell someone else you love them for everything they are and everything they're not. Don't underestimate that.

The word 'color' means at its origin to 'cover' or 'hide.' Matter eats up light and 'covers' it with a confusion of color.

Everything matters. The Universe is approximately fifteen billion years old, and I swear that in all that time, nothing has ever happened that has not mattered, has not contributed in some way to the totality.