Top 100 Matter To Quotes
#1. Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#2. Gertrude Stein ... the Madame Curie of language. Because in her deep research she has crushed thousands of tons of matter to extract the radium of the word.
Mina Loy
#3. Just as to a man with a hammer, everything is a nail, so in the age of science and technology, everything is a scientific and technical matter to be solved by scientific and technical means.
Os Guinness
#4. Did you think I was as blind as Father?" Tyrion rubbed his cheek. "Who you lie with is no matter to me ... although it doesn't seem quite just that you should open your legs for one brother and not the other.
George R R Martin
#5. How an individual's reputation is protected online is too important and subtle a policy matter to be legislated by a high court, which is institutionally mismatched to the evolving intricacies of the online world.
Jonathan Zittrain
#6. I was thinking about your mattering business. I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.
John Green
#7. If it isn't going to matter to you in 5 years, quit stressing about it. (Also, quit b*tching about it. It might matter when you're all alone in 5 yrs because you're annoying now.)
Ingrid Weir
#8. I do not know how much they see through the Mist. I doubt it would matter to them if they knew the truth. Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.
Rick Riordan
#9. Most of us, when we go out with a camera in our own country, try to find exotic subject matter to photograph.
Martin Parr
#10. Whatever he believed, he believed. It didn't matter to him whether it was really true or not. He just changed the truth till it fit him. He was a real white man.
James McBride
#11. What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail ? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I'll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors.
Samuel Beckett
#12. Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.
Jeanette Winterson
#13. Maybe he really could see past her ugly face. Maybe what was inside her did matter to him more than anything else. Tally
Scott Westerfeld
#14. What do the Gandhi-caps in Delhi know about the Punjab? What is happening on the other side in Pakistan does not matter to them. They have not lost their homes and belongings; they haven't had their mothers, wives, sisters and daughters raped and murdered in the streets.
Khushwant Singh
#15. I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#16. I think that's one of the biggest signs a person has matured - knowing how to appreciate things that matter to others, even if they don't matter very much to you.
Colleen Hoover
#17. She shrugged. "It doesn't matter to Jerusalem," she said. "The people come. The people believe. Then they kill each other, to prove that God loves them.
Neil Gaiman
#18. It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.
Gaines Adams
#19. To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence, in one direction or another, to commit to this book when that one is also calling, are the sorts of choices that artists must make if they are to function.
Eric Maisel
#20. If the headline is a good one, it is a relatively simple matter to write the copy.
John Caples
#21. The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be so exhibited that it will tell itself.
Percy Lubbock
#22. I'm not trying to steer people in a direction. I'm just trying to move them. Wherever it takes them, it doesn't matter to me. I just want them to be moved in one way or another, and that's a hard thing to do, I think.
Jason Isbell
#23. I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color of their skin. Those things don't matter to me. I want someone who's qualified, who has a qualification to character and the integrity to do the things that have to be done to save this world.
Edward Brooke
#24. The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged.
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. You are a stupid fucking woman, Emily Colt. Just like all your kind.
I know you hate Americans, but
I never said I hated Americans, Sergei spat. I said your kind. Women. It doesn't matter to me what country you're from. You women are fucking stupid, and I'm tired of saving you. All of you.
Allie Burke
#26. On the most basic level, men and women are the same. We both need to love and be loved, to have someone we feel we matter to, and who matters to us.
David Angell
#27. At the end of the day, he was going to find himself either dead or married, and he wasn't quite prepared to let the Bridgerton brothers take the matter to a vote. And
Julia Quinn
#28. How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you.
John Green
#29. When people are running up to me in the grocery store screaming, 'Oh my God! Oh my God!' that's when I know I'm swervin'. As long as people are recognizing you and you matter to them, then you're doing something right.
Anthony Hamilton
#30. The memories stayed with him for so long, and stayed vivid. And it didn't matter to me that he'd already repeated that before. I could hear it forever.
Patti Davis
#31. My favorite thing is to be working with people I enjoy working with. I've reached the point where, emotionally, I don't need to act any more. Financially, I do. But emotionally, it wouldn't matter to me if I never acted again.
Alan Arkin
#32. It doesn't matter to me what he feels if I can't live with what he does.
Lilley, R.K. (2012-10-20). In Flight (Up in the Air Book 1) (Kindle Locations 4662-4663). R.K. Lilley. Kindle Edition.
R.K. Lilley
#33. But it's not enough. I don't look human. If I went outside, people would scream at the sight of me. Looks matter to most people. That's reality in the world."
"Not my world."
I petted Pilot. "I like your world, Will, but it doesn't have a very big population. I'm going to let her go.
Alex Flinn
#35. The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much.
Doc Watson
#36. And it is a serious matter to destroy a man's faith without replacing it.
Victor Serge
#37. I think technology has advanced so far now that there are some cameras on the market that give film a run for its money. It's all about flexibility in capturing images, and digital or film, it doesn't matter to me.
Roger Deakins
#38. I tell her she's beautiful and perfect and she's going to be okay. I tell her she doesn't need to change herself to fit in with shallow girls or to matter to someone. I tell her everything I wish I had ever known. I tell her I love her, and I realize as I say it that I love me, too.
Cristin Terrill
#39. You can put me in the basement or the penthouse; it doesn't matter to me.
Davy Jones
#40. Status does not matter. It is what you are like as a player. It doesn't matter how much money you have come for. That doesn't matter to me. I will play a 17-year-old if he fights and he has quality. It is quite easy.
Brendan Rodgers
#41. Some call me nature, others call me Mother Nature. ... How you choose to live each day, whether you regard me or disregard me, doesn't really matter to me. One way or other, your actions will determine your fate, not mine. I am nature. I will go on. I am prepared to evolve. Are you?
Conservation International
#42. I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.
Natalie Imbruglia
#43. The matter to me was simple:
love for you was so strong,
I could see you in my soul
and talk to you all day long.
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#44. And telling you I care about you is a waste of time. I wouldn't have crossed the ocean, come out of hiding, tracked you down, if you didn't matter to me.
Anne Stuart
#45. Because if something does go wrong, you'll need what you're feeling to matter, to someone somewhere, anyway.
Kij Johnson
#46. There comes a time in every man's life when his thoughts lightly turn to setting his library on fire. To burn away the jungle to let him find the books that most matter to him.
Steven Hardesty
#47. I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.
Robert Frank
#48. Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.
Immanuel Kant
#49. It's a very complicated matter to become enlightened. If it happens to a person without a teacher in this lifetime, you can bet their boots, they've had about a thousand teachers in their last thousand lives because it's a very complicated thing to do.
Frederick Lenz
#50. The non-physicist finds it hard to believe that really the ordinary laws of physics, which he regards as the prototype of inviolable precision, should be based on the statistical tendency of matter to go over into disorder.
Erwin Schrodinger
#51. I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles De Gaulle
#52. I want to hit the ball and I want to get at-bats. The results really dont matter to me.
Torii Hunter
#53. With 'A Northern Light,' I've already heard from teenage readers, teachers, librarians - it's been so gratifying. It's amazing that you can take something that matters so deeply to you and make it matter to someone else.
Jennifer Donnelly
#54. We are staying in basic accommodation but it doesn't matter to me, it's all about the experience.
Eamon
#55. It is an important matter to train the voice in flexibility. Even voices which are naturally rebellious and heavy are sure to gain by it in mellowness and beauty.
Giovanni Battista Lamperti
#56. Women are like lionesses at the gate of the home. Whatever happens in that home and family happens because she cares about it and it matters to her. She guards that gate, and things matter to that family if they matter to her.
Julie B. Beck
#57. Yes, you are. God, I wish you could just see how much you matter ... to me ...
Jessica Sorensen
#58. I realize you think I'm just a filthy manwhore, but it does actually matter to me.
Christina Lauren
#59. It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.
T. J. Miller
#60. To drink is a small matter. To be thirsty is everything.
Georges Duhamel
#61. For say what you will of lovers there's nothing so flattering to female vanity as the praise of a husband, because it is universally considered a more difficult matter to retain affection than to win it.
Hannah Crafts
#62. I would love to do more movies. I'd like to get into some theater, too, if I could, just to learn more. I want to do gritty performances that I'm proud of. It doesn't matter to me if four people see it or millions of people see it, as long as I perform in such a way that people go, 'Wow!'
Jason Dohring
#63. It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time.
Charles Spurgeon
#64. Genre/forms are institutional questions mainly. Like matter to MFA programs in terms of which workshop you can teach.
Juliana Spahr
#65. I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.
John Green
#66. You're still our sister," Pandora said. "It doesn't matter to me whether you were sired by our old terrible father, or your new terrible father."
"I didn't need the extra one," Helen said glumly.
Lisa Kleypas
#67. Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions ... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
Muhammad Iqbal
#68. Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.
Joss Whedon
#69. Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses.
Alfred P. Sloan
#70. Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.
Alicia Keys
#71. I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.
Anne Campbell
#72. They saw me as someone who lived entirely within herself, like some creature who moved in an impenetrable bubble, emerging only when it was absolutely necessary to say anything to anyone or do anything with anyone. But family did matter to me. It always had, and always would.
V.C. Andrews
#73. 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
#74. I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn't matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn't let their kids hang out with me.
Macaulay Culkin
#75. It's not rocket science, Nan. You show someone they matter to you - do whatever it takes to show that.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#76. You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all we can not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die.
Cicely Saunders
#77. Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves ...
Madeleine L'Engle
#78. Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.
Julianna Baggott
#79. Inside every alienated hacker who thinks he stands for the "good things that ultimately don't matter to most businesses" there is a tycoon struggling to get out.
Michael Lewis
#81. 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
#82. Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper ... talking about the things that matter to us.
Patricia Reilly Giff
#83. You don't know anything, Meira, and I'm sorry if this...is hard for you to accept, but it will happen. You wanted to matter to Winter? This is how Winter needs you.
Sara Raasch
#84. Speak in your own voice about the things that matter to you.
Marty Rubin
#85. I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
Booker T. Washington
#86. Lost people matter to God, and so they must matter to us.
Keith Wright
#87. The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.
Frances Perkins
#88. That though thou seest it no great matter to be separated from Christ now, yet when the heavens shall be in a flaming fire, and the earth shall give up the dead that be in it.
Thomas Shepard
#89. Only truths that matter to me are the ones I don't, and can't, understand.
Donna Tartt
#90. Fuck your fairytale. I just want you. I'll make my own God damn happily ever after. But you're the one who is mistaken. You'll be at the end of that story, beautiful. You either come willingly or you force me into the dark after you. It doesn't matter to me, because either way, I'll find you.
Aly Martinez
#91. It's a strange thing to discover how much you matter to people you didn't really know you mattered to.
Kiera Cass
#92. It doesn't really matter to me how I make a difference, I just wanna make sure that I do.
Clay Aiken
#93. Wendell Berry in "Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer." "I do not see that computers are bringing us one step nearer to anything that does matter to me: peace, economic justice, ecological health, political honesty, family and community stability, good work." Ethan
Mark Sundeen
#94. If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will? ...
Saint Francis De Sales
#95. Roger was not flattered, because he did not recognize what was happening. Things that do not matter to him are invisible.
Priya Parmar
#96. he thought how little the rest of the world should matter to him, when he was secure in the good opinion of those he valued most, and in the knowledge that he was doing his duty.
Naomi Novik
#97. I don't want people to matter to me too much. Sometimes it hurts too much to think about them. Ones you love who don't love you, ones who are dead or hate you, ones who you think about but never get to be with. I like people but when I get too close, it fucks me up and I can't get things done.
Henry Rollins
#98. Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.
Miuccia Prada
#99. It doesn't matter to me whether I write in a man's voice or a woman's, or first or third person for that matter. Those choices come down to the story and I just go with it.
Nicholas Sparks
#100. It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.
Aesop
