Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Medawar

The attempt to discover and promulgate the truth is nevertheless an obligation upon all scientists, one that must be persevered in no matter what the rebuffs—for otherwise what is the point in being a scientist?

Paulo Coelho

Everything is a matter of courage.

R. A. Salvatore

Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters.

Pliny the Elder

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

Plutarch

So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.

Philip Yancey

Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.

Vernon Howard

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Richard Bach

You'd chosen to be an upright biped on the surface of a small planet of a minor sun on the edge of a minor galaxy of one of the multiple trillions of universes. That's OK. It doesn't matter what form you take.

Thomas Huxley

In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration.

Thomas Huxley

If the hypothesis of evolution is true, living matter must have arisen from non-living matter; for by the hypothesis the condition of the globe was at one time such, that living matter could not have existed in it, life being entirely incompatible with the gaseous state.

Thomas S. Monson

There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we must do that which is of greatest importance. Let us not procrastinate those things which matter most.

Thomas Sowell

If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.

Robert Griffin III

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.

Vinod Khosla

I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes.

Sarah Dessen

There was no way to take the story back, folding it neatly into the place I'd kept it all this time. No matter what else happened, from here on out, I would always remember Wes, because with this telling, he'd become part of that story, of my story, too.

Sarah Dessen

It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me. Just that you do.

Sarah Dessen

You knew the truth all along, Colie. That's all matters. You knew.

Sarah Dessen

A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all.

Sarah Dessen

In the end, though, maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

Sarah Dessen

With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never.

Sarah Dessen

With total strangers, it had always been my policy to expect the worst. Usually they-and those that you knew best, for that matter-did not disappoint.

Roger Ebert

No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.

Robert Plant

Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; a "principle" carries knowledge within itself, and is prospective.

Robert Greene

To me, no matter what we do, we all strive for that experience.

Rich Mullins

In the end, it's not gonna matter if you have a few scars, but it will matter if you didn't live.

Rob Bell

Your life is a gift and how you respond to it - what you do with it matters. That's where I start.

Tupac Shakur

No matter how hard it gets, keep your chest out, keep your head up and handle it.

Tracy Hickman

I will do this. Nothing in my life matters except this. No moment of my life exists except this moment. I am born in this moment, and if I fail, I will die in this moment.

Tori Amos

There is value in everybody's gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.

Ulysses S. Grant

The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.

Umberto Eco

I was in a maze. No matter which way I turned, it was the wrong way.

Robin Williams

It doesn't matter who you are, if you've got the legs, you can hang with them.