Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gloria Steinem

Behave like everything you do matters.

Harry S Truman

We all have to recognise, no matter how great our strength, that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.

H. L. Mencken

Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.

George Herbert

Hee that workes after his owne manner, his head akes not at the matter.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

Ian Mcewan

When anything can happen, everything matters.

Ian Mcewan

Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment's thought, and that would take time.

Ian Mcewan

Could it ever be explained, how matter becomes conscious?

I don't think there's a lot of strategy in shootouts. They didn't know me, I didn't know them, so it's a matter of guessing.

Daniel Clowes

I don't think anything to do with who publishes the work matters at all, as long as they're not compromising to get published.

I can make plays. It's a matter of having the opportunity to prove that I can.

I don't mind being in the shadow right now. What matters is where you are after that game.

James Brown

It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it.

Iyanla Vanzant

Everything we experience-no matter how unpleasant-comes into our lives to teach us something.

Isaac Barrow

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

No matter what the subject, the subject is always love.

David Brown

Certainly, they are all pleased to have this matter resolved.

William Ford

Hopefully, it's going to be a matter of weeks, rather than months.

He's very intelligent, and intelligent people have open minds. He's in a tough market, and he can't be thin-skinned about this thing. He's going to take his shots like we all do. It's a matter of sticking to your convictions.

Joseph Stalin

It doesn't matter who they vote for, they always vote for us...

Leopold Stokowski

On matters of intonation and technicalities I am more than a martinet - I am a martinetissimo.

Nicholas Sparks

It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems.

Neal A. Maxwell

If the kingdom of God is not first, it doesn't matter what's second.

Mark Victor Hansen

It matters only that you manifest your genius; it doesn’t matter when. It’s never too late or too early.

R. Kelly

When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty. And it doesn't matter if it's a murder case, it doesn't matter what case it is, when they're found not guilty, they're not guilty.

R. C. Sproul

Doctrine does matter.

Protagoras

There are intelligible principles inherent in the matter of every phenomenon; because matter is essentially the sum of all the seemings that it has for any and all persons.

Publilius Syrus

In doubtful matters boldness is everything.

Publilius Syrus

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

Preston Manning

Nothing disturbs me more than superficiality and mere sloganizing on matters of public policy, and the suspicion that what the speaker is saying represents the full extent of his knowledge on the subject.

Nelson Mandela

The most difficult matter is not so much to change the world as yourself.