Top 100 Matter Quotes
#1. Strength is finding the courage to let another person in. Strength is opening your heart to him and exposing yourself in all vulnerabilities- No matter how terrifying that may be.
Scarlett Edwards
#2. Konrad had gone to the New World without me, and no matter how fast I ran westward, how close I kept to the sunsets, I would never catch up with him now.
Kenneth Oppel
#3. We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.
Jupiter Hammon
#4. The ultimate purpose of Zen,' I remembered the roshi telling me, 'is not in the going away from the world but in the coming back. Zen is not just a matter of gaining enlightenment; it's a matter of acting in a world of love and compassion.
Pico Iyer
#5. Love changes you. No matter how strong you are, it makes you stronger. No matter how weak you are, it makes you weaker. No matter how hard you are to conquer, it will bring you to your knees.
R.K. Lilley
#6. I find I'm not one of these composers that are, you know, walking along a beach or walking on the mountainside in County Donegal that's, you know, 'Oh, a melody.' It's more a matter of eventually taking that moment with me to the studio, and it begins to evolve.
Enya
#8. The books that matter to me ... are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself.
Sven Birkerts
#9. I had the fortune to spend some time, mostly during the summers, with Jackie Kennedy's and her sister Lee Radziwill's families and children. Cinema was an integral, inseparable, as a matter of fact, a key part of our friendship.
Jonas Mekas
#10. The reality is that the only people who count are those who believe in you no matter what. The ones who stand beside you when hell crawls through, nipping at your heels because they know who you really are.
Joan Swan
#11. A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.
Leo Buscaglia
#12. The matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice ...
Plato
#13. I'm not sure I'll ever be finished. No matter how much I write, there will always be something I should've said.
Megan McCafferty
#14. Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.
Greil Marcus
#15. Your mind is beautiful. No matter what problems people say you have, every mind is capable of writing something inspiring and beautiful.
B.A. Gabrielle
#16. News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.
Jessica Savitch
#17. Chinese people as consumers, while they've always valued food and beverage for the health food qualities, they are also now wanting it in terms of other values: 'Does this speak about my position in society? Am I now middle-class, and does this matter to me?'
Jenny Shipley
#18. Any path you take, if you commit with passion, you can be successful. By going to business school, certain opportunities may open up to you sooner. But it's who you are and how you take advantage of your opportunities that matter.
Dan Rosensweig
#19. Write down everything you can think of, no matter how stupid it seems. I always write down my thoughts throughout the day. Sometimes good things come out of it, and I'll find an idea to develop into a song, so my best advice is to try and draw inspiration from everyday things.
Daya
#20. Some girls are pretty and they were born for it but no matter what always be yourself because people might see the wrong side of you
Jenny Han
#21. No matter what the problem is, our experiences are just outer effects of inner thoughts.
Louise Hay
#22. I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action
no matter what the action is
might help you feel better.
A. J. Jacobs
#23. Any disease could be healed in a matter of days - any disease - if distraction from it could occur and a different vibration dominate.
Esther Hicks
#24. When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.
Tea Obreht
#25. It doesn't matter what she looks like. It doesn't matter if she's long or short legged. It doesn't matter if she's pale or tanned, if her hair is black or brown or red or blond. It doesn't matter if she's pretty or not. It matters that she feels the sun on her skin.
Nicola Yoon
#26. I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter.
Kenzo Tange
#27. Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.
Orison Swett Marden
#29. And Kansas City is at Chicago tonight, or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas City leads in the eighth 4 to 4.
Jerry Coleman
#30. Charm is simply a matter of being yourself. Your uniqueness is your power.
Keith Ferrazzi
#31. If every lover was treated like they matter - everyday; valentine's day wouldn't be so 'special.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#32. No matter how much I plan the overall arc of the character, you get there day one on the film and you shooting certain scenes first, and it goes completely different to anything you ever thought of, and then it's done.
Lin Shaye
#33. In the age when the atom has been split, the moon encircled, diseases conquered, is disarmament so difficult a matter that it must remain a distant dream?
Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker
#34. No matter what, just let them write every day,even if you're not sure what to teach, just let them write. They'll do fine." -Lisa Cleaveland's words for her long-term substitute teacher.
Lisa Cleaveland
#35. Don't be embarrassed of who you are, they're gonna judge you no matter what you do.
Melina Kanakaredes
#36. If I held a revolver to your head, James, and pulled the trigger, would it really matter if I did not know that there were not bullets in the chambers?
Cassandra Clare
#37. I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint - no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided ...
Richard M. Nixon
#38. No matter how little your light is, let it shine
Saji Ijiyemi
#39. No matter how much people want to pretend that they're embarrassed by it, that they don't watch it, everybody knows about it. It's truly, I believe, one of the only art forms that America has actually given to the world, besides jazz and comic books.
CM Punk
#40. If you have the money and you find the one player who can make you win and make the difference, no matter how expensive he is, you should do it. But there are not many players in the world who will make a real difference.
Arsene Wenger
#41. For a novelist, no matter what, it's a complete work, even if it's not published. But if you write a screenplay, and it's not performed, then it's a sad and frustrating experience.
Susan Isaacs
#42. I have emphasized experiments more than theory. Of course, we need some theory when thinking of soft matter.
Pierre-Gilles De Gennes
#43. As a matter of fact, the methods of primitive accumulation are anything but idyllic.
Karl Marx
#44. Doesn't matter you have thousand of qualities but if you are not honest with your beloved,then other all qualities are rubbish.to hold relation and love there is need only one quality Thats call Honesty and just Honesty
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
#45. [Replying to the question of the presenter: "where did the name "Sex Pistols" come from, who thought this name up?"] Some animal. I can't remember. It doesn't matter. It's history.
John Lydon
#46. I wish I had never got manic depression. When I was in junior high, I didn't know what was the matter with me. It was as if I'd died or something. Now that I go to a clinic and get the right kind of medicine, I am not as depressed as I used to be.
Daniel Johnston
#47. But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do I really want? Was it to love what God commands, in the words of the collect, and to desire what He promises? Did I want what I wanted, or did I want what He wanted, no matter what it might cost?
Elisabeth Elliot
#48. No matter the job or position you have, you have the power to create positive or negative experiences for your customers. Where do you lean?
TJ Hoisington
#49. You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins.
Annie Dillard
#50. Financial security is crucial for your family, and I have a large family. Money does matter when you don't have it. When you need it, you realise the value of it. In that sense, money will always have value.
Katrina Kaif
#51. Radicals don't care about the institutions. They are looking for an ideological crusade. Traditions don't matter.
Norman Ornstein
#52. I've been a conservative my whole life. There is nothing hard-right or far-right about anything. I just believe in ideas and that ideas matter in history, and that's my background, and that's the way I'd like to be portrayed.
Dave Brat
#53. Medals are decided by hundredths of a second, so I need assurance that my vision is perfect every time I compete, no matter what the conditions.
Lindsey Vonn
#54. No! No matter how cut up she was, no matter how many scars on her body, no matter that every man who looked at her thought she was repugnant, she wanted to live! "Lia," Robert asked quietly, "how
Lindsay McKenna
#55. If you do the best you can, no matter how bad the situation, you probably are going to come out okay.
Helen Gurley Brown
#56. I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.
Liam Neeson
#57. You lose in the Finals, they're all disappointing. Doesn't matter if I'm playing in Miami, Cleveland or on Mars. You lose the Finals, it's disappointing.
LeBron James
#58. We're all human beings, and we all have the same problems. I do remember how blessed I am, and no matter how bad things are, they can always get worse.
Khloe Kardashian
#59. No matter what happens in the kitchen, never apologize,
Julia Child
#60. I loved fighting ... It gave me the opportunity to prove myself, to stand up and say, 'I'm the best. I matter. I am.'
Joe Frazier
#61. There was nothing the matter with them except they were dead tired. It was not the dead-tiredness that comes through brief and excessive effort, from which recovery is a matter of hours; but it was the dead-tiredness that comes through the slow and prolonged strength drainage of months of toil.
Jack London
#62. I'll never forget where I'm from, never forget my roots. It doesn't matter where I live. I'm English, simple as that.
David Beckham
#63. You know, if you're a human and living on the planet, it doesn't matter what you do; you are not immune to the challenges, the trials, the difficulty. And that fact that I happen to be a coach and a minister and a spiritual teacher doesn't mean anything. I'm still human.
Iyanla Vanzant
#64. Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.
James Russell Lowell
#65. No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.
Victor Hugo
#66. No matter how hard it feels, you don't need to be afraid to move on, and you don't need to be afraid to stay either. There's always more to see and feel.
Emily Henry
#67. We have the ability to love each other, no matter our differences. To help each other, no matter our weaknesses.
Marissa Meyer
#68. There's only really two things about a man that matter: what he wants, and what he'll do to get it. Everythin' else we pretend is important
whether you're tough, or good-lookin', smart, stupid, honorable, whatever
that's just details.
Matthew Woodring Stover
#69. It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
Thomas Sowell
#70. Wherever you go, madam, it will matter little what you carry. You will always carry your goodness.
Henry James
#71. Yeah," he said, eyelashes lowering as his gaze traced the movement of her fingers. "It hurt me being away from you. It feels like there's a hook dug in under my ribs, and there's something pulling at the other end. Like I'm tethered to you, no matter the distance.
Cassandra Clare
#72. Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it ...
Charles Dickens
#73. Some of the screen's best moments were realized because a director went against all reason, all logic. No matter how incredible a story seems, it can be made credible. If you feel an insane idea strongly enough, you've usually got something.
Rouben Mamoulian
#74. He said the truth is like that water: it doesn't matter how hard you try to bury it; it'll always find some way back to the surface. It's resilient.
K.A. Tucker
#75. - "no matter what I do, I cannot be free while others are enslaved, I cannot be truly happy while others suffer.
Unknown
#76. You matter, Mama repeated. Not because of whose son you are. Because of who you are. You're as important as every other human being that ever was or ever will be. Everyone matters.
Kimberley Brubaker Bradley
#77. Lives Matter" - Those that serve our country matter. Lets be part of the solution to bridge the gap between law enforcement and the community. Change the Atmosphere, Change the Outcome!
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#78. After all this window is whatever I want it to be, up to a point, that's right, don't compromise yourself. What strikes me to begin with is how much rounder it is than it was, so that it looks like a bull's-eye, or a porthole. No matter, provided there is something on the other side.
Samuel Beckett
#79. ...and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live. We are wrong, of course, but it doesn't matter. It's too late.
Toni Morrison
#80. Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't - no matter when, no matter what.
Kurt Vonnegut
#81. A lot of actors just do whatever they do, and wherever the camera is, it is. They don't pay much attention, but I always did. I was always very close to the camera crew. They were my best buddies, no matter what movie or show I was doing.
Donna Mills
#82. You don't have to be married to be whole. As a matter of fact a husband is an add-on, he is not the completion of the equation.
T.T. McClendon
#83. But there's no way to avoid regret. Don't let anybody tell you different. Regret is just life's aftertaste. No matter what you choose, you're gonna wonder if you shoulda done things different. I didn't necessarily choose wrong. I just chose. And I lived with my choice, aftertaste and all.
Amy Harmon
#84. Read,read,read! It is good and promotes better academics. It helps in all sorts of ways. So read no matter what!
Jennifer
#85. Tatsu was true samurai, and would continue serving the same master no matter how many times that master ignored or even abused him. Devoted service was the highest end he knew. It
Barry Eisler
#86. It is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.
Janet Guthrie
#87. In that moment, Iseult knew what she had to do. Logic didn't matter, nor Threadwitch practicality, nor even the opposing halves of her heart.
What mattered was doing the right thing.
So Iseult made her choice, and she ran.
Susan Dennard
#88. Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#89. Consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all existence.
Amit Goswami
#90. Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.
Edward Abbey
#91. In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter.
David Horowitz
#92. Who cares how you get caught? If you're cheating, if you're doing wrong, it doesn't matter what you're doing
it's wrong.
Clint Bowyer
#93. The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interests them, and sometimes it's an ad.
Howard Gossage
#94. That, and I'm dying to know what he felt during our kiss. I know it doesn't matter. I know it won't change anything. I know it's juvenile. Whatever. Can't a girl be a girl for, like, five minutes?
Susan Ee
#95. The next time she comes back, no matter what she says, listen to her well. If she cries, give her a handkerchief and wait until she's done crying. If she curses me, curse with her. And if by any chance she asks about me, tell her that I'm sorry.
Kim Do-Jin
#96. I would say my mind is always working - no matter where I am I continue to see opportunities all around me. My only sorrow is that I can't possibly explore them all!
Arlene Dickinson
#97. To face tomorrow with the thought of using the methods of yesterday is to envision life at a standstill. To keep ahead, each one of us, no matter what our task, must search for new and better methods-for even that which we now do well must be done better tomorrow.
James F. Bell, III
#98. Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's fragrances smell like the air freshener in a taxi.
Patricia Marx
#99. People want to classify and say, 'OK, this is a gangster film.' 'This is a Western.' 'This is a ... ' You know? It's easy to classify and it makes people feel comfortable, but it doesn't matter, it doesn't really matter.
Martin Scorsese
#100. In my experience, men are not necessarily less sensitive or compassionate than women are, and women are not necessarily any less aggressive or competitive than men are - as a matter of fact, often they are more so!
Andrew Cohen