You Still Matter Quotes

#1. I don't care whether you're Baptist, Buddhist, Mormon, Methodist, Jewish, Muslim, or no religion at all. Jesus Christ still loves you. You still matter to God.

Rick Warren

#2. You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.

Jimmy Smits

#3. And when that day comes, it won't matter so much whether every step was in the right direction because life is not a straight line. It will only matter that you took them. That you never let yourself stand still.

Cora Carmack

#4. Much more likely you'll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I've got to suffer, it may as well be at your hands, your pretty hands.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#5. Race wasn't even something he thought about these days, because that's what you were supposed to do. Pretend it didn't matter. Still,

Stephanie Kuehn

#6. I tended to give a book a chance and another chance and another, sometimes seeing it all the way to the end, still hoping for for it turn out different. Maybe I was confused about what you owed a book. What you owed people, for that matter, real or fictional.

Deb Caletti

#7. The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and you are still getting beat no matter what you do. When you have the killer instinct to fight through that, it is very special.

Eddie Reese

#8. No matter how afraid you are - you can still make the choice to fight. You can still make the choice to walk through the fire- he said to do it afraid.

Rachel Van Dyken

#9. We all have flaws, no matter how hard we try to tame sometimes still eludes us. If you give me your flaw, I'll handle it flawlessly, and I mine, you'd do the same. That's when two is better than one, else, we'll have two aggravated untamed flaws.

Ufuoma Apoki

#10. No matter how much time you spend climbing up, you may still fall in an instant.

Max Payne

#11. It'll be okay, I promise. No matter what I see or feel. You'll still be Logan and I'll still be your Gypsy girl.

Jennifer Estep

#12. I still find myself reaching out and knocking twice on our wooden cutting board. Because you can never be too sure when it comes to the things that matter most.

Emily Giffin

#13. You began it," declared Dorothy. "Well, you ended it, so we won't argue the matter. May we come out again? Or are you still cruel and slappy?

L. Frank Baum

#14. You can't be happy at work every day. No matter how much you love your job, there are still going to be bad days. And that's cool - it's always OK to have a bad day at work.

Alexander Kjerulf

#15. No matter what happens, you still get sleepy, and you still get hungry, and the sun still rises. Even if it mysteriously doesn't feel real.

Yun Kouga

#16. If you can shoot well, all you need is a disposable, toy camera or a camera phone to create great work. If you're not talented, it doesn't matter if you buy a Nikon D3X or Leica; your work will still be uninspired.

Ken Rockwell

#17. Every time I look at you autumn leaves come in between - does it matter they're the color of your hair - or they still fall in my memory? ...

John Geddes

#18. You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.

Wale

#19. If you love the wrong people it's still love, isn't it, no matter what kind of love ...

Rumer Godden

#20. When church is over and there's no one there to listen except the only One who matters, do you still have that same passionate joy in your spirit, just to be alone with the Living God?

Keith Green

#21. I was angry at my parents when I had to have brain surgery, that they weren't still around, because no matter how old you are you want you parents when you're going through something like that.

Rosanne Cash

#22. No matter how big you are in the business, at the end of the day it's still work.

Chloe Grace Moretz

#23. So whatever anyone says, whatever anyone thinks - I've lived so very long. I've been in love. I've been free.
I'd like to think, no matter where I go, I can still be found. Just look up.
I'll be there. That's where I'll be.
Every time the sun shines down, maybe you'll think of me.

Krista Ritchie

#24. No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.

Steven Pinker

#25. Unfortunately, no matter how frivolous the lawsuit, you still, of course, have to pay people to defend you on it.

Kelly Ayotte

#26. Very neat for a boy; always cleaned up his mess, no matter where he got it on me. He's Hispanic, so he's like, 'Now who's the wetback?' I'm like, 'Hey, still you. Get back in the kitchen, those dishes aren't going to do themselves.

Amy Schumer

#27. But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

Vanessa Mae

#28. It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.

Natalie Du Toit

#29. No matter how bad home is, it is still home, and home is something that will always be a part of you, something that helps define your life.

Misty Griffin

#30. If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

Joyce Carol Oates

#31. No matter how old or sick or out of shape, you can still stretch and have a new beginning with yoga.

Bikram Choudhury

#32. No matter who you are, big or small, female or man, brave or not brave, you can still be empowered and feel strong.

Lights Poxlietner

#33. It doesn't matter much anyway. I haven't slept well since he left. I can't dream. In some ways, that's the hardest part of having him gone."
I understand. "Because if you can't dream you can't pretend that he's still here.

Ally Condie

#34. You can drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, on every continental shelf and atop every hill in America for that matter, and you still won't reverse the fact that our oil production is in permanent decline. We're just sopping up what's left, digging ourselves into a deeper hole.

Roscoe Bartlett

#35. Whatever you do, whatever you redo, it all ends up here. Some things are just unavoidable. No matter how hard you try, the things meant to go to shit still go to shit. Terrible things happen, Micah, and you can't stop them. You just can't."

So you just do more terrible things.

Amy Zhang

#36. No matter how much tarnish you think is on the tabernacle of your heart, you still shine because of God's love.

Mark R. Woodward

#37. No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you've done.

Ben Affleck

#38. No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don't and the people you're ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here.

Colin Hanks

#39. I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.

Tommy Lee Jones

#40. In a way it doesn't matter whether you open doors or close them, you still end up in a box.

Marilyn French

#41. I am advising you in this matter not only as your chief of finance, but as a woman who would still be married to her husbands if they had looked at her the way you have looked at me here today.

Don DeLillo

#42. Your writing is still yours, no matter what the contract or your editor might say. Trust your gut. It knows when you're screwing up. Your brain will lie to you. It loves the paycheck, it loves positive feedback. Your gut is under no obligation to make you feel good.

Gail Simone

#43. It doesn't matter if you can't speak the same language. If you have pictures, or better still, if you can draw things, then you can communicate anything to anyone.

Antony Gormley

#44. My biggest thing is I need to see a lot of pitches, which I did today. That's good. The more pitches you see, the better your timing is going to be. But it's going to be impossible to see enough pitches. No matter how many pitches you see, it's still going to be March 6.

Mark Teixeira

#45. He knew the routine, but it still annoyed the hell out of him. It didn't matter how much blood and sweat he'd sacrificed for his nation - in the end of the day, he knew, you either give orders, or you follow them.

George Magnum

#46. It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.

Rita Mae Brown

#47. You know, it doesn't matter how beautiful you are, if you don't have anything interesting to say, then you're still boring.

Shirley Manson

#48. What are you boys doing?" she asks, as if we're still little kids messing around.
"Arguin'," Carlos says matter-of-factly.

Simone Elkeles

#49. Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.

Amy Bloom

#50. Indeed. That pony collection isn't nearly complete," Carter mused. When I dared a look back at him, I saw that the angel was smiling at me. "You see? You aren't lost. No matter what happens to you, you have a plan. There's still hope.

Richelle Mead

#51. America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are.

Alphonso Jackson

#52. No matter how extreme things get, it still has that ring of truth about it that backs the characters - even though they're despicable and what they're doing isn't right you still care for their fate.

Andy Serkis

#53. Here Nanny had taken the biggest thing God ever made, the horizon - for no matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you - and pinched it in to such a little bit of a thing that she could tie it about her granddaughter's neck tight enough to choke her.

Zora Neale Hurston

#54. Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the scenery itself.

Abhijit Naskar

#55. True revolutionary change begins by first challenging yourself -- not the world. Until you own your story and the complexities of your experience, no matter how much you may strain against it, you will still be enslaved -- if not by your oppressor, by your past.

Sil Lai Abrams

#56. Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.

P. J. O'Rourke

#57. You are who you choose to be. No matter how much light is shed upon you, if you still choose to remain in darkness, that's your doing, not anyone else's.

Bella Forrest

#58. The Middle East is America's 'champagne room'. No matter how much you spend, you will still never get what you want.

Dov Davidoff

#59. It's always been difficult to make a good record. To be perfectly honest with you, it's really about the person that's pushing the buttons. No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record.

Dr. Dre

#60. But you could also look at it the other way. Like you're saying no matter how bad things are for you, I can still relate.

Sarah Dessen

#61. No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Grace Slick

#62. One of them would hurl a rock, then a few more. Suddenly it's raining rocks. Ya with me? That's their cover, see, because no matter how big a weapon you come out the door with, you still don't want to catch a rock in the face. A sawed-off won't stop a rock, follow?

Jim Lynch

#63. I think any time you've got a story based on a true story, no matter how accurate it is, obviously it's still fictitious.

John Lee Hancock

#64. You can't gather much if you won't go on risk expedition. Leaders never fear the thorns; they'll still go in for the beautiful roses no matter the number of pricks they'll get.

Israelmore Ayivor

#65. No matter how dim the light filtering through the trees is, you can still try your best to grasp it. -Kaien Cross

Matsuri Hino

#66. So many thoughts ran through my head. Most of them contained the same, simply three words so often strung together that it was too much a classic cheese or cliche to say it, but they still had meaning, no matter how many times they had been repeated.

Alysha Speer

#67. It was no use to tell a person to forget. No matter how hard you tried to put it out of your mind, the hurt would still be there, festering under the forgetfulness, sending poison through your veins.

Mary Schumann

#68. The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve. The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it ... some stories just don't have a happy ending.

Jodi Picoult

#69. I love painting still lifes because there's a feeling of musical, flowing experience. The drawing doesn't matter as much - what you're really after is a feeling of clarity and beauty.

Jacob Collins

#70. No matter how much you knelt and prayed, you still had to eat three meals a day and have a job and live in the world.

Sylvia Plath

#71. What will you do with your self? Many men and women are still in darkness, trying to figure out the meaning and purpose of life. But no matter what you try to do with your self - whether you deny it, obliterate it, annihilate it, accept it or express it - believe me, it is still alive and kicking.

K.P. Yohannan

#72. 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

#73. Be persistent and just keep going to open mics no matter what, even if just to watch and not perform. You'll find that even at your worst keep your head up because you'll still be better than other people's best.

Pete Holmes

#74. Always remember, no matter how big you get in life, God is still bigger; when you feel to be at your lowest point, Satan is still at the bottom.

Anthony Liccione

#75. The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.

Bill Vaughan

#76. When one's dead, one's dead ... This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad?

Tove Jansson

#77. If you are fantasizing love, you are still single from within a heart no matter what your relationship status is.

Pratik Akkawar

#78. Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice.

Raheel Farooq

#79. No matter what you do in life, a part of you still sits at a curbside, still hearing the drumbeat of a distant parade, still waiting for it to turn the corner.

Robert Breault

#80. No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

Billy Graham

#81. Eyes. "I'm sorry for your loss, Emma," he said stepping forward, offering them to me. "The opened roses are for your parents, and the one that's still closed, is for you. With the love and support around you, it's just a matter of time before you bloom.

Cameo Renae

#82. You can say whatever you want; it doesn't matter. It doesn't faze me. I'll still go out and do what I have to do, whether that's making A's in the classroom or doing well on the field.

Robert Griffin III

#83. No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.

Chuck Palahniuk

#84. I had asked him many times why he stayed, and he always said the same thing: "Because I love you, and I wanted to, and I knew you were in there." No matter how damaged I had been, he had loved me enough to still see me somewhere inside.

Susannah Cahalan

#85. I'm not a career filmmaker. I just like to do things that I still kind of believe in and because of that you just never know what's going to happen next. It doesn't matter if it's been a good year or a bad year: next year, there's no telling what it will be like.

Peter Mullan

#86. Well, you can think what you want, so long as you remember - no matter how ordinary things seem between us - I'm still here, still in love with you, and care about you more than any other guy, evil or otherwise, ever will.

Richelle Mead

#87. No matter even if you are cold, I like you better than anybody in the world. One time I said that you were my soul. And that still goes. You're all the things that I see in a sunset when I'm driving in from the country, the things that I like but can't make poetry of.

Sinclair Lewis

#88. You can remove someone from your mind, but the most difficult task is removing them from your heart. No matter how bad a nigga treats you, once you love him, that love for him still misses him when he's gone.

Jessica Watkins

#89. It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.

Sam Harris

#90. It's all a cesspool, man. Doesn't matter if you're on the bottom or the top. You're still swimming in shit.

Michael Connelly

#91. No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.

Mehmet Oz

#92. No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

Barbara De Angelis

#93. No matter how many people are screaming your name or how many Number One hits you have, you can still wake up and feel like a loser.

Lady Gaga

#94. If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.

Richard P. Feynman

#95. When people see you do alright, then you start winning their hearts. It's not going to come easy, though. It doesn't matter how many people you do right, you're still going to be hated by so many others. You can't live your life trying to make everybody happy.

Cam Newton

#96. Here is our first rule: Any life you create is yours, and must be cared for. No matter how humble or small, it is still yours, and you must answer for it.

John C. Wright

#97. I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter how much money you have, if you want to stay involved with your children and don't want to lose being a primary parent to them, you're still in the game.

Patricia Richardson

#98. No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.

Marat Safin

#99. Have you surpassed the rest? Are you the president? It doesn't matter. They will more than arrive there, every one, and still pass on.

Walt Whitman

#100. 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