Top 100 It Does Matter Quotes
#1. It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here.
Bode Miller
#2. When you play the bars, you pay your dues. It does matter that you know those things [songs]. And the great thing for me, too, is that I draw on that stuff as influences. It's also stuff that you put in the tank that you pull from to make records.
Eric Church
#3. It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
Charles Kettering
#4. I don't want to sit there and be like, 'Oh, I don't care what the audience thinks.' It does matter to me. I just want them to think, to be honest.
Donald Glover
#5. No, it does matter. Because I'm getting married." "No, you're not." "Yes, I am!" Jamie stood, jaw tight. "You're not marrying anyone but me.
Kandi Steiner
#6. I am in complete alignment with my thinking with this statement by F. F. Bruce: 'Whether our approach is theological or historical, it does matter whether the New Testament documents are reliable or not'."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
#7. Fuck. "Clearly it does matter." Rays of sunlight stole
Kresley Cole
#8. It's nice to feel the fans are behind you. You shouldn't concern yourself with things like that - but it does matter.
Dan Marino
#9. It was the particular feel of him that made me want to go back: everything that is said is said underneath, where, if it does matter, to acknowledge it is to let on to your embarrassment. That I love you makes me want to run and hide.
Jenny Boully
#10. but I can't tell her that it doesn't matter that she's poor, because it does matter to me, but I can rectify the problem. Everything else about her is perfect.
Gisele Walko
#11. Record what you can, pursue your passions, connect with the world, fight the good fight, defy evil, shine incandescently as best you can. And it doesn't matter what field it's in but, it does matter that we leave something that accumulates over time.
Stefan Molyneux
#12. Grief, regret, pain, and of course anger. Another loss. And when you compare this one loss to the hundreds and maybe thousands that occur people stop thinking they matter. It does matter though. Every loss matters.
Natalie Valdes
#13. While it does matter what words you use when talking with other people, to an angel it's more about the intentions and energy behind the words.
Doreen Virtue
#14. In a world that might say one vote doesn't matter ... , it does matter because each person is of infinite worth and value to God ... Your vote is a declaration of importance as a person and a citizen.
Billy Graham
#16. You could not be more correct. It does matter. All of it.
Ron Currie Jr.
#17. I tell myself it doesn't matter, your name is like your telephone number, useful only to others; but what I tell myself is wrong, it does matter.
Margaret Atwood
#18. I do think that narrative is very important - I think that we use narrative to organize the world around us, and so it does matter a lot what kinds of narratives we have in our inventories and which ones are reinforced so often and so strongly that we habitually reach for them without thinking.
Ann Leckie
#19. It doesn't matter how old you are.
It does matter how much you care.
Debasish Mridha
#20. The world just goes along. Nothing much matters, you know? I mean really matters. but then sometimes, just for a second, you get this grace, this belief that it does matter, a whole lot.
Lucia Berlin
#21. Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.
Mahatma Gandhi
#22. Quick question. Does this magical skill with gray matter come with a total lack of compunction for your kind, or is it just you who were born without a conscience?
V: I beg your pardon?
J.R. Ward
#23. If we don't have that, what do we have to live for? Does it matter if it's a lie if it keeps us alive?
Beth Revis
#24. Though there are those who say it does not matter how a man begins, but only how he ends.
George R R Martin
#25. Does it matter that people and things
Have words,
Have names?
If not,
Why read any book?
A litany of useless letters
Detached from bone, muscle.
Or are words the only things that make the muscle, bone, memory, movement,
Person
Real?
Stasia Ward Kehoe
#26. I rarely use product in my hair, and when I do I have no idea which ones, nor does it matter all that much to me. And I can't remember the last time I even used a comb, much less carried one around.
James Maslow
#27. It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things, God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.
Watchman Nee
#28. Progress does take time, it doesn't matter how slowly or fast you go, it will sure come".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#29. You will live as you live anywhere. With difficulty, and grief. Yes, you are dead. And I and my family and everyone, always, forever. All dead, like stones. But what does it matter? You still have to go to work in the morning. You still have to live.
Catherynne M Valente
#30. What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have.
Mary E. Pearson
#31. Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it.
Pablo Picasso
#32. It does not matter that Dickens' world is not life-like; it is alive.
Lord David Cecil
#33. When the time to die comes, it does not matter how and when it happens.
Albert Camus
#35. The fact of the matter is that the world does not care about you or me, our hopes, our desires, or our dreams. And, the world of dreams, hopes, and desires that is constructed between our ears it is not necessarily a reflection of what is actually going on around us.
Miyamoto Musashi
#36. His house to me was a child was a heart of happiness. If there is a wonder childhood possesses which makes it forever superior to what shall come after, it is the happy and uncritical love of whatever is happy, place or person, it does not matter which.
Elizabeth Spencer
#37. It does not matter what has been made of us; what matters is what we ourselves make of what has been made of us.
Jan Kott
#38. life slips out of hands, just like handful sand;does not matter how hard you press to protect it will anyhow flow out the hands.
Deepika Chamoli
#39. And Kyle says, It's like when I'm with her, all the shit from my past doesn't even matter. Nothing does. I don't think about anything but her.
Jason Myers
#40. This same system could condemn injustice, but instead it chooses to condemn something as simple and fundamental as the search for the second half. We are all born wanting this. Why does it matter what shape this second half takes, provided it is the thing both sides seek?
Martha Brockenbrough
#41. It does not matter how far we have gone in the wrong direction, it does not matter how many golden opportunities we have allowed to slip by us; what counts now is that we have woken up from our deep slumber and with this awakening comes our next line of action.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#42. I don't go to premieres. I attend film openings I'm in, and that's about it. Fame and celebrity doesn't matter to me. The longevity of my career does.
Eva Mendes
#43. You need hope to form a thought. It takes-I don't know-optimism to speak, to engage in conversation. Because really, what's the point of all this communicating? What difference does it really make what we say to each other? Or what we do, for that matter?
Noah Hawley
#44. Does the price matter, if the trick be well done? You do your tricks very well. And I didn't do badly either, since I managed not to sink that steamboat on my first trip. It's a wonder to me yet. Imagine a blindfolded man set to
Joseph Conrad
#45. Cause The one thing that I learned from dad besides the cheap stuff fucks you up as much as the stuff on the top shelf does is it doesn't matter what you say or think, or wish you said but didn't say- just what you do.
Mike Kinsella
#46. The Atonement of Jesus Christ does not just provide a way to clean up messes; it provides the purpose and desire to avoid making more messes. The Atonement doesn't allow us to ignore our appetites or pretend they don't matter, but to educate and elevate them.
Brad Wilcox
#47. We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.
Doris Lessing
#48. The whole thing became a matter of speculation: I was soon (in the famous words) "altering 'I believe' to 'one does feel.' " And oh, the relief of it!
C.S. Lewis
#49. I don't know. I don't remember. What does it matter?
Brent Weeks
#50. It doesn't matter what one says; it matters what one does.
Steven Frank
#51. There is no aspect of life that you take that does not demand discipline. It is a requirement of life. It is not a matter of choice.
Sunday Adelaja
#52. Does it really matter if I choose the bus over a BMW, and generic over Gucci? Because the car, the wardrobe, the zip code-those are just nouns, things that are fun to have around, sure, but in the end, they have nothing to do with the real me. Nothing to do with who I really am.
Alyson Noel
#53. It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we're never above that.
Hillman Curtis
#54. God disguised as myriad things, and playing a game of tag has kissed you and said, "You're it. I mean you're really it. Now it does not matter what you believe or feel. For something wonderful, something major-league wonderful, is someday going to happen."
Hafez
#55. A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks; but the face which, in silence, does not announce hidden mysteries is not beautiful, regardless of the symmetry of its features.
Khalil Gibran
#56. Does it matter if an empty vessel breaks, hollow hath no hate.
Unkown Author
#57. Teach them what you love to do in life. It really doesn't matter what it is. It never does. Just show them how important a passion is ...
Carew Papritz
#58. It does not matter how strong you are. You are to be my wife, and I will not have the woman I love put herself at risk. Ever.
S.T. Bende
#59. My advice is this, do whatever pleases yourself. These things don't matter. What does matter is that if you have anything worth while in you, any talent, you should deliver it. Nothing must turn you from that.
Patrick Kavanagh
#60. If you please God, it does not matter whom you displease. And if you displease Him, it does not matter whom you please.
Steven J. Lawson
#61. And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her eyes, wishes more than anything to be unwakened by what she cannot name?
Mark Strand
#62. Death sucks. Death sucks, mostly because it forces those who stay behind to survive. Death isn't merciful enough to take you too. Instead, death constantly jams down your throat the awful lesson that life does indeed go on, no matter what.
Harlan Coben
#63. In wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do
James Monroe
#64. Art objects are inanimate sad bits of matter hanging in the dark when no one is looking. The artist only does half the work; the viewer has to come up with the rest, and it is by empowering the viewer that the miracle of art gains its force.
Vik Muniz
#65. I am only a cup that knowledge holds. It does not to knowledge matter how poor the cup is. It is the wisdom of those who drink of me that me wise makes. Fools make a sibyl foolish, wherever she is.
Joan D. Vinge
#66. It is impossible for the mind to remain undisturbed by thoughts, but anyone serious about the matter can certainly permit them entry or drive them away, and although their origin does not lie entirely under our control we can choose to approve of them and to adopt them.
John Cassian
#67. If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.
Eric Liu
#68. But God does use the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. It doesn't matter who we are really - just who He is. - Miz Opal
Martha Finley
#69. It does not matter how old you are. Recognize your calling and begin to work toward its fulfillment
Sunday Adelaja
#70. Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
F. Sionil Jose
#71. It is not right if I am wrong. But if I am young, and right, what does my age matter?
Sophocles
#72. I owe it all to words and art, the peace that came with a flicker of a pen silenced the suffering; eased the pain and life that was once filled with burden became sane again. It Became meaningful.
Art does matter, it made me, when the world changed me.
Nikki Rowe
#73. When people say money doesn't matter, it sure as hell does when you're able to show your mother a beach house and then hand her the keys to it. That was one of the happiest moments of my life.
Tony Robbins
#74. I think it's ridiculous when people say, 'I don't date actors.' It's about the right person, and no matter what that right person does for a profession, they're still going to be the right person.
Rob McClure
#75. Fact is fact. Truth is Truth. It does not matter how you feel. We do not listen to our feelings. We believe the truth of God's word.
Eric Ludy
#76. As I see it, out of a hundred marriages ninety-nine marriages are just licensed prostitution. They are not marriages. A marriage is only a real marriage when it grows out of love. Legal, illegal, does not matter. The real thing that matters is love.
Rajneesh
#77. He was some kind of a man... What does it matter what you say about people?"
-- Marlene Dietrich's character in Touch Of Evil, originally written by Whit Masterson as Badge Of Evil. One of the best closing sequences you'll see in classical Hollywood
Whit Masterson
#78. Nothing. It just finds you a lot more attractive than it does most Humans. What can you do with a beautiful woman that you can't do with an ugly one? Nothing. It's just a matter of preference.
Octavia E. Butler
#79. It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.
Seneca The Younger
#80. Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate your subject in some new and useful way, scratch it out.
Kurt Vonnegut
#81. This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making consciously for some definite goal. And a Utopia, however strange or fanciful, is the only possible beacon upon the uncharted seas of the distant future.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#82. The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.
Karl Lagerfeld
#84. Win or lose, we achieve nothing in the world that we understand [ ... ]' 'But then the world does not matter.' 'Indeed it does not [ ... ] It is good to understand that.
David Gemmell
#85. You can be a great model, an average one, or a bad model. You may think it doesn't matter to you, but it does to the Lord.
Henry B. Eyring
#86. No matter what else is going on, Christmas is my all-time favorite period in the year. It has a positive effect on me like very little else does, seasonally, that is.
Rush Limbaugh
#87. She doesn't like sitting about, no matter what is wrong in life. It does you good to have something ahead of you, regardless how small.
Maggie O'Farrell
#88. It is said that heaven does not create one man above or below another man. Any existing distinction between the wise and the stupid, between the rich and the poor, comes down to a matter of education.
Fukuzawa Yukichi
#89. If we know one thing from experience it is that oppression does not crush rebellion, no matter how it tries,' I told him. 'It breeds it anew with every tyrannical act.
Isobelle Carmody
#90. It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture, but it is to be regretted that a nation should lose two or three hundred thousand in raising a ridiculous building.
John Ruskin
#91. The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material and spiritual evil as its consequences which far exceed whatever good might result? When will our moralists give us an answer to this question?
John Hersey
#92. Age is a question of mind over matter. If you do not mind, it does not matter.
Preeti Shenoy
#93. It is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters.
Aldous Huxley
#94. This shouldn't matter, but it does: the sense of shame I feel about an incident is proportionate not just to the gravity of the situation, but also to the number of people who witnessed it.
Paula Hawkins
#95. It does not matter if you believe in God, because God believes in you,
Sylvia Browne
#96. Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be. Man does not suddenly become aware or infused with wonder; it is something we are born with.
Sigurd F. Olson
#97. It does not matter where I am.
The sky is always mine.
Windows, ideas, air, love,
earth, all mine.
Why does it matter if sometimes,
the mushrooms of nostalgia grow?
Sohrab Sepehri
#98. She's upset."
"Screaming upset? or crying upset?"
"Does it matter?"
"Yes. There's a difference between being mad at a guy and being a teary mess over him. For example: Deanna is mad and can plot your destruction; I was a teary mess and could barely crawl out of bed every day.
Sylvia Day
#99. Of course he'll bring no money. Nor never will. He's not the type to--accumulate. But it's a good name to have. And he's becoming a personality in the county. One never knows quite why this happens, eh? Not so much what a man does. More a matter of character.
Winston Graham
#100. Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one?
Susan Orlean
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