Top 100 Quotes About Mattered
#1. It was your inner spirit and not your outward appearance that mattered,
Jeannette Walls
#2. Both their attention and their neglect were equally intolerable. His world had become complicated and interesting and magical. Theirs was mundane and domestic. They didn't understand that the world they could see wasn't the one that mattered, and they never would.
Lev Grossman
#3. If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
Larry Page
#4. They lived in a Wikipedia world, where knowledge was no longer required and only the ability to access it mattered.
Bentley Little
#5. He gave his life to save the thing that mattered most to him: his Clanmates," he meowed softly. "He truly has the stars at his paws now. You will see him again, when it is time.
Erin Hunter
#6. They could come together again no other way because they had waited so long. Because they were all that mattered. Because he was life and she was its meaning. The
Alexandra York
#7. if there is an afterlife, then nothing here mattered, and if there isn't an afterlife, nothing here mattered.
Jonathan Tropper
#8. I didn't care that we were out in public. I didn't care that he was Moroi. All that mattered was that he was Adrian, my Adrian. My match. My partner in crime.
Richelle Mead
#9. He tried to forget what he'd discovered, how little other lives mattered to him when his own was at stake.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#10. What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.
Nicholas Sparks
#11. Etiquette, Seward had once told Jamison, was all that mattered. Ideologies waxed and waned, religions developed and eroded, political parties rose and fell from power. Only courtesy remained one of the few things valued by all civilized men.
Connie Brockway
#12. But that never did any good anyway. People learned by what they experienced. It mattered little what anyone said to anyone. The small
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#13. I believed it would succeed. It was Polish Solidarity and its victory that put an end to the old era when what mattered were borders and rival blocs.
Lech Walesa
#14. Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus?" Bellow quipped. Tolstoy was "white," and so Tolstoy "mattered," like everything else that was white "mattered.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#15. Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.
John Green
#16. all that could be hoped for was for each generation to be raised to be sensible enough to learn from the past, not to lose sight of the things that mattered, and to understand why they mattered.
Terry Goodkind
#17. [On the birther movement:] Here we are, quadrillions of bytes deep into the Information Age. And yet information, it seems, has never mattered less.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#18. Fletcher had always said that apologies were just empty words, and that actions were all that really mattered in the end.
Jennifer Estep
#19. As I took in the scene, I smiled softly. Family and friends - that's what mattered most. Money made a difference, yes, but it couldn't buy back a life.
Yasmine Galenorn
#20. I thought about how all that mattered, in all entirety, and all I wanted,
and all I could see anything being worth anything for, was being a writer.
Ariel Schrag
#21. Clothes were to Sylvia what books were to me: the only thing that really mattered.
Kimberly McCreight
#22. I was so dedicated to generating income to keep my family housed and clothed and schooled. That mattered to me. And playing good golf mattered to me. The rest of the things, like how my record stacked up against others, never made that much difference.
Billy Casper
#23. The PIRA were clients, and their money was good, which was all that mattered, for he was never a man to make judgments. Sitting opposite
Jack Higgins
#24. Only our memories allow that some people ever existed. That they mattered, or mattered too much.
Joe R. Lansdale
#25. When you're older you will know that at some unconscious level not only did you see it coming, but you created it, in your own blind, stumbling way. You will console yourself with the fact that it wouldn't have mattered, seeing it or not seeing it. You were a sponge for incident.
Stephanie Danler
#26. Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.
Seth Godin
#27. The light came into the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it, but that no longer mattered because the light was now obliteration the darkness.
Ted Dekker
#28. But she'd forgotten. She'd forgotten because she'd been so busy thinking of her own fucking feelings. As if she fucking mattered.
Stacia Kane
#29. Neil didn't care how many hearts they broke that night. They'd beaten USC. When the Trojans lost to the Ravens next week they'd be eliminated from championships. The Foxes were going to finals, and that was the only thing that mattered. -
Nora Sakavic
#30. He relaxed into the dirt, it was all right, he was infantry and the dirt was home. He felt warm liquid all over his left thigh and wondered if he'd peed himself, it didn't matter, none of it mattered, the stars were out in the blackness overhead and that was where he was going.
Henry V. O'Neil
#31. It was not the size of things that mattered but their perfection, it was not what one had that was important, but what one made.
Elizabeth Goudge
#32. This was excitement, and desire, and pleasure. Nothing mattered while you were with a man. Nothing but the man, or men in this case.
This was freedom. This was forgetting.
Marshall Thornton
#33. And maybe some people are like collages - no matter how broken or useless we felt, we were an essential part of the whole. We mattered.
Heather Demetrios
#34. The only permanence was fluid. Change was all that mattered.
Frank Herbert
#35. This entire ordeal taught me a valuable lesson. People are important-not things. I was no longer keeping up with the Joneses, material things or lots of money; that mattered very little to me. Life isn't about having, is about being.
Silvia Corradin
#36. She was probably male, to judge from the angular mazelike patterns quilting her shirt. I wasn't entirely certain. It wouldn't have mattered, if I had been in Radch space. Radchaai don't care much about gender, and the language they speak - my own first language - doesn't mark gender in any way.
Ann Leckie
#37. I was over-confident while growing up. I think when you look a certain way, you try and compensate by something else. I was always a strong child, was always confident, but looks never mattered to me.
Sonakshi Sinha
#38. it mattered less what your origins were, and more what work you were willing to do; how hard you'd fight for the men around you.
Alexandra Bracken
#39. He was in her presence. Nothing else mattered. Except, of course, acting unaffected by her.
Wes Demott
#40. Michael felt as if his heart might burst. With the death of the council he had felt as though he had lost everything that mattered to him, but here in his arms, he found the last piece of hope he had left in the world. We have to go back and help Gabe.
Wendy Owens
#41. It was as though everything that mattered was encapsulated in that last moment of my blissful state of oblivion.
Sarah Swainson
#42. Life was precious. Life was all that mattered. Yet it meant nothing if you weren't living as you wanted.
Edward Bunker
#43. Do you want me enough to let me love you?" That was the real question, wasn't it? The only one that mattered. "Yes.
Kit Rocha
#44. He was gone, and she was broken hearted, that was all that mattered.
Danielle Steel
#45. We live but a short time, at the longest. How do we make our lives mean something? If we die in glory, with our minds and our hearts fixed on achieving a great goal, we have lived a life that mattered.
Elizabeth Berg
#46. Geoffrey: Why, you chivalric fool - as if the way one fell down mattered.
Richard: When the fall is all there is, it matters.
James Goldman
#47. The secret of leaving, the secret I have only just now learned: leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. - Quentin
John Green
#48. It was all very well occupying the moral high ground on electoral reform, but what really mattered, she thought, was how you treated your mother.
Alexander McCall Smith
#49. Never forget those first five minutes, when you thought how much you loved each other was the only thing that mattered. Because in truth it is the only thing that matters. That love is what gets you through all the other stuff.
Lisa Unger
#50. When we were pushed to the edge we were capable of anything. Surviving was the only thing that mattered.
Molly O'Keefe
#51. And she learned that you couldn't stockpile anything that mattered, really. Feelings, people, songs, sex, fireworks: they existed only in time, and when it was over, so were they.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#53. I wanted to rewind. Go back. Tell Decker to take the long way around. Go back even further. Ask Decker to stay inside with me. I would have told him something important, and it would've mattered. Before all this, it would've mattered.
Megan Miranda
#54. I hate that I let myself be so passive my whole life, and I see now how differently things could've been if I'd had faith in myself when it mattered. I don't want to go back to that. I won't. Not ever.
Tahereh Mafi
#55. Earl "The Goat" Manigault was probably the greatest basketball player of all time, but Michael Jordan is universally regarded as the best ever. This is because The Goat only did it at Rucker Park, while Michael did it where it mattered: in front of the world.
Tucker Max
#56. In the ancient tales, to which each Viking aspired, strenght was the only virtue, iron the only currency that mattered. Loki with his cunning, whereby a weaker man might outdo a stronger one, was an anathema to these folk.
Mark Lawrence
#57. If romeo was really gone, never coming back, would it have mattered whether or not juliet had taken Paris up on his offer? Maybe she should have tried to settle into the left-over scraps of life that were left behind. Maybe that would have been as close to happiness as she could get.
Stephenie Meyer
#58. Strange how it mattered so much, when now it matters so little.
Lang Leav
#59. She wondered if it ever occurred to those people to ask themselves why it mattered.
Anonymous
#60. I thought of my sweet little girl and her chubby cheeks, big brown eyes and long brown hair with bangs that constantly needed trimming. She was all that really mattered in this world, and I could not keep moping over some guy who came in and out of my life faster than a season of American Idol.
Kate Madison
#61. And maybe, just maybe, it didn't matter hw you looked going into battle. It just mattered that you went.
Danielle Paige
#62. He dreamed of London and of a life that mattered.
J.K. Rowling
#63. He believed that his superior intellect mattered more than his physical defects and saw no reason why he must defer to these fortunate young men with handsome faces and healthy bodies and empty heads.
Sharon Kay Penman
#64. The universe shrank to Curran and his pain. I had to break him free. Nothing else mattered.
Ilona Andrews
#65. What I didn't say before no longer mattered. We had the entire future before us to say everything else.
Keary Taylor
#66. I knew it would be all of those things and so much more to me, but it was his heart I was yanking from his chest with my decision, and that's what mattered to me. I was giving up a piece of my own as well, but it was a choice.
His was just collateral.
Rachael Wade
#67. Kylie didn't know which one of the fairies were doing it, or if it was both- she honestly didn't care- but the thousands of tiny pinpricks of panic started to fade. She felt safe and that was all that mattered.
C.C. Hunter
#68. But the cause didn't matter. All that mattered was the effect.
Stephenie Meyer
#69. And then a wave of peace washed over her and told her it wasn't where she lived that mattered, but that she was walking with Him.
Chris Fabry
#70. His eyes showed my heart the way to his soul, and I found all that mattered lay in him, in his keeping." -- Vittoria Colonna
Ophelia Sikes
#71. David knew what mattered most. The presence of God. He begged God for it.
Max Lucado
#72. Asakawa himself didn't much care if the company made money or lost it. All that mattered to him was whether or not the work was engaging. No matter how easy a job was physically, if it didn't involve imagination, it usually ended up exhausting you.
Koji Suzuki
#73. The results of the irrevocable decisions in her life, the commitments she had leaped into without thought, with only the sure and perfect knowledge that it mattered not where her feet landed because her heart was certain.
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Erica Bauermeister
#74. I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.
Marvin Bell
#75. And if there was any doubt, the events of the previous year - in Ferguson, Baltimore, and North Charleston - clearly showed that race still mattered in America, but black lives seemed not to.
Herb Frazier
#76. They didn't agree on everything. They didn't share all the same opinions. In fact, there was enormous scope for disagreement, argument, even quarrels. But where it mattered - where the wellsprings of their personalities rose and gave meaning to their lives - they were the same.
David Weber
#77. I always thought it mattered, to know what is the worst possible thing that can happen to you, to know how you can avoid it, to not be drawn by the magic of the unspeakable.
Amy Tan
#78. ...what was important, what mattered, was not the fact of being afraid, but what you did, the choices you made, when you were afraid. And maybe that was something to do with being alive--or staying dead.
Graham Gardner
#79. I wondered if everyone had a secret like this, something slightly wretched, bent and corroded with time, like a lost key that might not even unlock anything anymore. And if, in the end, it might be the only thing that mattered.
Jessica Soffer
#80. None of those things should have mattered, but I guess they did. I guess they were like water. Soft and harmless until enough time went by. Then all of a sudden you found yourself with the Grand Canyon on your hands.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#81. Only you mattered in that moment. Only you. And I would have done anything to save you. I would have paid any price committed any sin sold my very soul to do it.
Deanna Raybourn
#82. If it 'really' mattered, you would have done something about it...if you have not,it does not matter or matter enough...!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#83. I learned long ago that home is a word that applies to people, not places ... Didn't matter to me where I was - it mattered who I was with.
Beth Revis
#84. But none of that really mattered. I had found my tribe. It felt like a family reunion for the family I'd never really known, a homecoming at the place where I was always meant to be but hadn't known how to find.
David Levithan
#85. They had both wanted it to happen and they both wished it had not; what mattered now was that nobody else should ever know.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#86. Perhaps Dexter's dutiful but uninspired brain pictured him as Sherlock Holmes, able to examine the wheel ruts and deduce that a left-handed hunchback with red hair and a limp had gone down the road carrying a Cuban cigar and a ukulele. I would find no clues, not that it mattered.
Jeff Lindsay
#87. You know a person is having a severe personality crisis if you see a high school class ring on a finger beyond the first semester in college. Male or female. It's a big sign saying nothing has mattered to my life since senior year.
Nikki Giovanni
#88. Before loving you, love, nothing was mine:
I hesitated through the streets and things:
nothing mattered or had a name:
the world was of the air that I awaited.
Pablo Neruda
#89. Everyone had their own theory about everything and they believed that their truth was only one that mattered
Paulo Coelho
#90. It didn't matter who was more right. What mattered is that we listened to each other
W. Craig Zwick
#91. Theirs is a devotion that is possible only because of their equal disappointments in each other and the knowledge they share that at one time, to the one who mattered, they were each separately enough.
Emily Ruskovich
#92. People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine.
Daphne Du Maurier
#93. I talk different, I walk different, everything. I don't have one single bad memory [there]. Not one. It was my sanctuary. I hated school, wasn't good in school, and me and my dad butted heads about that. But nothing mattered when I went home to Alabama.
Channing Tatum
#94. Music could do that, create a magical oasis where nothing else mattered except hearing the next line of the score.
Elizabeth Camden
#95. Anybody who's ever mattered, anybody who's ever been happy, anybody who's ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions.
Richard Bach
#96. I wanted to tell him not to cry anymore, tell him that what those boys did to that bird didn't matter. But I knew it did matter. It mattered to Dante. And, anyway, it didn't do any good to tell him not to cry because he needed to cry. That's the way he was.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#97. It didn't matter whether a thing existed or not. What mattered was the trouble caused by those who believed in its existence.
John Connolly
#98. At that moment he knew one thing. The only thing that mattered.
He loved her.
Julie James
#99. Christian charity, the compassion of centuries of civilization, fell from her like useless ornaments, revealing her bare, arid soul. She needed to feed and protect her children. Nothing else mattered any more.
Irene Nemirovsky
#100. It was to these books that I turned for an answer to the question: What is the meaning of la ilaha illa Allah? Again I was disappointed. The books were about Islam, not about Allah. They covered every subject you could possibly imagine except for the one which really mattered.
Bediuzzaman Said Nursi
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