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The quest for philosophy's beginning is idle, for everywhere in all beginnings we find only the crude, the unformed, the empty, and the ugly. What matters in all things is the higher levels.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It matters if you just don't give up.

Stephen Hawking

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Benjamin Disraeli

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

J. K. Rowling

It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

Mother Teresa

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me.

Janis Joplin

Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters...

William Shakespeare

Small to greater matters must give way.

William Shakespeare

Matters change and morals change; men remain.

John Galsworthy

In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Seneca

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

Stephen Hawking

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

Confucius

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Colin Powell

It's the whole, not the detail, that matters.

German Proverb

It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

C. S. Lewis

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

Madame de Stael

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

Philip K. Dick

We're going to put this behind us right now. Saturday is all that matters.

Niamh Dwyer

Superstition brings the gods into even the smallest matters.

Titus Livy

It matters, ... to the world at large.

Janet Guthrie

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Samuel Johnson

Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Samuel Johnson

REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.

Ambrose Bierce

What matters to me is my role in the film.

Priyanka Chopra

Everyone knows you can hire a lawyer to say anything. It really doesn't matter what a lawyer hired by the Chamber of Commerce thinks. It matters what the judges think.

Tom Hucker

We've got to be very careful on this so we don't make matters worse.

Bill Rogers

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia Wieder

We are doing well in all three directions; let us recommit ourselves, in 2006 as we did in 2004, to those same three matters . . . .

Sir Roy Trotman

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

Pedro Calderon De La Barca

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

It's not so much what you do that matters, but how much you do. Up to 40 hours a week, there are no negative effects on a husband's health. But the effects are substantial after 40 hours, say, more than 50 hours a week.

Ross Stolzenberg

It's a loss. We are 2-1. What happened last year doesn't matter. We beat them once and lost to them once. We lost to them when it counted and that's all that matters about last year.

Alan Faneca

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

Jane Goodall

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Bertrand Russell

Disc golf lets me forget that anything else matters. It's all about being outside in beautiful surroundings and enjoying the complexities of the game.

Steve Logan

In Latin America, price matters.

Grant Smith

Champ Car is very tough, and the only thing that matters is winning. It's very easy to let the hype get ahead of the fact, and I don't want her career to blow up.

Kevin Kalkhoven

[Carr] seems to talk about the end of innovation, but there will always be innovation. Information technology is not electricity where the unit is an electron; in IT every byte is different. It is what is transported that matters.

Doug Richard

He is an industrialist and his first priority is his business interest, so it matters very little if he had resigned.

Raj Babbar

We figured out a way. That's all that matters.

Karen Baird

The Alliance calls for a rapid restoration of (control of) security matters to the Iraqi government.

Jawad Al maliki

Life consists of a lot of minor annoyances and a few matters of real consequence.

Harvey Penick

What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.

Judy Grahn

The only poll that matters happens on Nov. 7.

Andrea Tantaros

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Voltaire

We would have liked to win the division, ... but we're in. That's all that matters.

Tim Wakefield

I was disappointed by the three interceptions. My team fought hard, and that's all that matters. They kept us in the game and won a tough one on the road.

Marques Hagans

I think it would be irresponsible not to at least revisit these previous matters and find out if this accused does have anything to do with them.

Sal Basilone

Under NASA policy, it is inappropriate to discuss personnel matters.

Dean Acosta

Authenticity matters little, though--our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility.

David P. Mikkelson

In the relay, what matters most is which team skates more consistently.

Ahn Hyun Soo

I love the message of the movie, which is that family is love. It doesn't matter if you don't look like each other. The love is what matters.

Queen Latifah

In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.

Chuck Klosterman

We didn't get the only thing that matters, the ring, but we won some games. The whole time we knew we'd have to pay the piper.

Floyd Reese

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

It's probably beneficial to eat the morning after, and I'm not convinced that it matters much what you eat. The biggest thing is to drink plenty of water. That's going to be the best thing the next morning.

Dr. David Katz

We don't care who we play from now on. We're in the Elite Eight. That's all that matters right now.

Darius Washington Jr

Beyond matters of the soul, the inspiration for most art is in nature. For me, aesthetic meteorites are the closest approximate to being able to behold that which is in the heavens.

Darryl Pitt

I'm glad to hear she is trying to help us. But what really matters is what's in the bag of money in November and December.

Rick Terres

But judges more than anyone else have to follow clear mandates of federal law. When you violate judicial rules of ethics, it matters, even if you're not doing it for any nefarious reason.

Doug Kendall

Matters were drifting. There was a need to take action.

Norman Baker

What matters most in this case was the effective steps taken by the university.

Gene Marsh

You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.

Paul Walker

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

Orson Scott Card

Bush promoted a conservative program, designed to eliminate everything Americans had accomplished so far in matters of race and equality.

Danny Glover

The Coast Guard has a long history of operating jointly with the Department of Defense forces in matters of national security.

James Hull

Jon has the breadth and depth of background in energy matters that a candidate should have for appointment to the FERC. Additionally, he understands regional differences when it comes to transmission planning issues.

Richard Mcintire

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

Every person on the team matters. Every single player. The kids are determined.

Ted Braggins

We didn't abstain to say 'don't come,' but just because we don't have what we need on the books. We're not saying everything has to look like the Joseph Kershaw house. Heck, no, but the answer isn't 'it's out on I-20 so it doesn't matter.' That's our door to Camden -- it matters more than anything.

Joanna Craig

We did the best we could. That's all that matters.

Ben Long

She was a terrific person, kind of a take-charge individual. She was very giving of herself, particularly in family matters.

Paul Porter

I would be probably naive to say that there was agreement on all these matters. There are, of course, profound differences in the approach of the two sides.

Albert Rohan

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?

Katharine Graham

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

Harold Bloom

We disagreed at trial on factual and legal matters, ... Nothing dramatically changed our position on those issues.

Michael Burke

Place matters to us. We often call it sacred ground where earth meets heaven.

William Cooke

There's no evidence that size matters in terms of better governance.

Dennis Dresang

Airlines carrying struck UPS goods are only making matters worse for everyone. By helping UPS limp along, they are prolonging the strike.

James Sutton

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley

We are conducting our investigation into some matters related to the case. Until it's completed, it's not going to be conducive to go forward with the case or engage in any more discussions about resolving it.

Craig Kennedy

Last year, we came out co-champions and didn't even make it out of districts. So we knew that what you do in districts is all that really matters.

Harold Mcallister

We never discussed any matters having to do with any of the things that have been alleged by his critics. There was no wrongdoing.

John Podesta

Support of substantial people whose opinion matters.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

That's a decision I can't make, but I'm always for that. Right now we're doing some pretty good things on offense. As long as we're winning, that's all that matters, to be honest with you.

Terrelle Smith

It was enough to get it done tonight. I wish we had played better, but we're going (to state) and that's what matters.

Glen Flanagan

Every time matters are brought here, I think there is a certain level of apprehension everyone in this building goes through.

Gary Parker

Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.

Amy Vanderbilt

We thought we had a chance, but it was fun, and that is all that matters.

Shuteamia Brayboy

So far, every district match we've played in has been a great match. That's our district for you. As long as we have one more goal than the other team, that's all that matters.

Diane Davey

When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

The president has confidence in his economic team, and we never discuss specific personnel matters.

Claire Buchan

Size matters not, ... Look at me. Judge me by size, do you?

Yoda

Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the background. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgment.

Lord Chandos

Turns out not where but who you're with that really matters.

Dave Matthews Band

The conference is what really matters, and we are 2-0.

Deandre Rice

Playing this year is the only game that matters. If the past counted, we'd play only one game and you'd never play it again.

Justin Blalock

My close friends and family, the people I love, have been incredibly supportive to me and that's what really matters.

Mark Feehily

We will not volunteer for restructuring until these matters are resolved to our satisfaction.

Jane Kenyon

Performance is what matters to me, not the niceties of corporate structure.

Patrick Cescau

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Spiro T. Agnew

It's cheating if your spouse considers it cheating. It's hard to give a blanket definition of cheating, because it's based on the morals and beliefs of the marriage. But what matters is: does your spouse consider it cheating?

Jenn Berman

People know what I would do if that ever happened here. I have a frank conversation with my coaches about matters of sexual harassment. They know where I stand.

Judy Samaha

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

Robert Hall

[Calling the verdict] a significant breakthrough, ... It demonstrates that criminal justice systems can deal with these matters. It's an exoneration of the system.

Paul Wilkinson

I don't think we've ever played in front of a crowd like this. But it just matters what we do on the court, that we do the things we've been doing all year.

Nicole Piggott

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

What matters is that this bloke is happy; he loves life and he appears to love Melbourne. His glass is half full, or bubbling over, and that is what we like ... John So stands out in a sea of political blandness.

Andrew Clarke

I don't feel like I've done this before. Last year it was a shock that I made it back, and this year I'm already in the top eight. Not that going in there it matters where you are, but it makes me nervous.

Barbie Viney

The idea is to make sure that these sex offenders are occupied with constructive matters and not focused on the children who may be knocking at their doors this Halloween.

Andrew J. Spano

We will continue to treat these matters as we have in the past.

Charles Dalfen

Germans have always voted for the party with the most competence in economic affairs. Volkswagen's announcement just reinforces the greater competence of the Christian Democrats in these matters.

Reinhard Schlinkert

When the offensive line is playing well, I don't think it really matters.

Jeff Hartings

It certainly makes us think, what other factors may be important that we should be considering and how that may improve matters further.

Dev Niyogi

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

Joseph Howe

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To make matters worse, we are beginning the new year with a moisture deficit in the high country.

Larry Martinez

You can't be sure of that. We lost three more games after I was back in the lineup. All that matters is we were 0-and-6. We had a great effort today, and we have to keep playing like this.

J'son Stamper

These events started when people were endeavoring to place pressure on us in relation to those matters.

Philip Ruddock

Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters the least.

John Morley

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Antoine de Saint Exupery

We are also seeking the declaratory judgment to set aside any concerns regarding any legal matters that could potentially interrupt our future business.

Pete Wehrly

If the heart be right, it matters not which way the head lies.

Walter Raleigh, Sr.

It's been a crazy year, ... But all that matters now is winning this [division] and getting to the postseason.

Jake Peavy

This appears to be something that happened relatively spontaneously, and apparently some of them did not really recognize the seriousness of the matters they were involved in.

Howard Safir

Tradition doesn't make for fashion. What matters is the architecture of the garment and that architecture has to be international.

Chantal Rousseau

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Anne Sexton

(The other riders) were all stressing. As long as they know (I'm capable of knocking them off), that's all that matters.

Bucky Lasek

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

Pliny the Elder

The time that governing boards spend on these matters indicates how much interest there is in this area.

Gary Enos

It's in the past. It's a new opportunity, and that's all that matters.

Michael Bradley

How you look saying something matters. Kerry has to look warmer, fuzzier, more comfortable and more likable.

Bruce Dumont

It doesn't matter. All that matters is finding time to fish.

Brandon Smith

Ultimately it is our objective to provide a language-specific development center for every language that matters. It's just a matter of which ones we get to first.

Jeffery Mcmanus

In both those cases, I think they are an error of judgement, and both those people are back in their own work and I think that's probably sufficient to deal with those matters.

Christine Nixon

I don't think it matters. But I'm sure they think they have an advantage because they beat us. I think it just gives us more incentive to beat them. We lost, but we learned from our mistakes.

David Zuber

If you look at the whole, they didn't have a bad year. But unfortunately, what matters politically is not the whole, but the end. And the end didn't end very well.

Vin Weber

It's irrelevant what somebody's politics are. It just matters whether they would be a good central banker.

Frederic Mishkin

Everybody matters. That's how our system works.

Don Fertman

I feel this kind of incidents will certainly hit tourism in the state as tourists, especially foreigners take these matters very seriously.

Karan Singh

Katrina showed America that race and class matters.

Charles Barron

This was definitely one of the most exciting and dramatic games I've ever coached. It was very difficult to endure, but we pulled it out and that's all that matters in the end. It was a great win for us, on the road, on a wet field and having to deal with heckling fans.

Roger Mueller

He doesn't talk much around anybody. Maybe he does when he's not in the (football) building. What he does say, though, matters. You need to listen when he talks.

Joe Kines

Our concern is about the traveler, not the politics. What really matters is what the traveler needs to know.

Colin Jensen

It hardly matters if you list a species, if you don't take care of their habitat.

Jamie Rappaport Clark

At this tournament, it doesn't matter what your record is. Nothing matters. It's just that one game, and either you win or you lose. If you lose, you're done. We had to keep working hard. We knew we had it in us.

Katie Delong

There's plenty of interest in this area to move ahead and take matters into our own hands.

Scott Kidd

Nothing that happened in that game matters much, except the score at the end.

Tyler Macmullen

She did well enough to keep us in the game. That's all that matters.

Tommy Fabian

What goes on away from here, as far as basketball, I leave that there. I don't bring that here. If I do bring it here, I see my little girl and see my son, it wipes all that stuff out. None of that matters here. I'm not T-Mac here. Not at all. When I come here, I'm 'Daddy.' I'm 'Babe.' And I'm Tracy. This is family.

Tracy Mcgrady

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

Dean Gordon Brown

Every person that has come in this morning has been talking about the cricket. It's all that matters at the moment.

George Glynos

It doesn't matter. What matters is that you're about to die.

Franco Nero

Even if the reality is, there's nothing more that he could have done back in Washington or anywhere else ... the symbol matters.

Norman Ornstein

It was always on my mind but I didn't dwell on it. There was always that fear that you would get that phone call or someone knocking on the door. But he's home now, and that's all that matters. Until he hit U.S. soil, I didn't breathe a normal breath.

Bill Stewart

This position requires a person with the talent and life experience to handle family matters firmly, fairly and compassionately.

Kevin Dunn

We shouldn't call winners or losers immediately after a debate. Those calls have been useless as a guide to what really matters. . . . What matters is what the press focuses on.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

There have been a lot of excellent films, character studies, and some on really tough subject matters.

Tom Ortenberg

Everything that you do matters. … You're held to a higher standard as an athlete.

Bill Kent

I really don't have an explanation for our fast start. But the goal is to win games and we got out of here with a win and we're going to play another day and that's all that matters.

Mark Dubach

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Katherine Graham

I'm glad that this matter's put behind us.

Roy Barnes

It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well.

Maureen Dowd

It matters a great deal to us. Paul said, 'All things through Christ,' and we are acting on that.

Rev. Dave Rawley

You know, we have talked about that. It just matters what we believe. And we believe. If there are doubters, too bad. We believe in ourselves, and that's all that matters.

Kerry Janquart

It's the thrill of the chase -- the research, the excitement of finding the next thing, the better object. Often, the hunt matters more than the object itself.

Lynda Cain

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch / Is offering too little and asking too much. / The French are with equal advantage content, / So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

George Canning

I don't know if it matters. It might help the perception some, but it doesn't change the football.

Jimmye Laycock

It's a 3-3 game. I give up a home run, it's a funeral. I'm over it, man. I've got one more start here, and that's all that matters.

A.j. Burnett

People will make judgments before you even speak based on the way you look. Most definitely your physical appearance matters. The way you dress, your hygiene - it all matters.

Jonathan Adler

A.J. has a lot of things coming up with the Senior Bowl and the NFL (draft) and, as I do with other athletes, I'm assisting him in all those matters as a general counsel. I'm also assisting him in expediting this investigation so he can move forward.

Henry Hunter

I've been trying to not dwell on things, ... Anna's safe, and that's all that matters.

Chris Gill

We're still going. That's all that matters.

Javario Byrd

I don't think any of us knew what was happening. But we had a meeting and decided we can still achieve our goal of winning the Sun Belt. And that's all that matters.

Crystal Kelly

Delta employees continue to rise to the challenge every time something is asked of them, ... Delta employees know how important their job is and how every passenger matters.

Chris Kelly

We may explore the universe and find ourselves, or we may explore ourselves and find the universe. It matters not which of these paths we choose.

Diana Robinson

Forensic scientists are not policemen. We are scientists. We deal with these matters objectively. We do not [act] on our suspicion.

Cyril Wecht

These reports are, of course, very disturbing, ... I am committed to finding out the truth of these matters, as best we can, after these many years.

Louis Caldera

You know, it's going to happen. I'm not going to worry too much. We're getting wins and right now we're in first place and that's all that matters.

Gino Guyer

It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

William Carlos Williams

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

Arthur James Balfour

It's not the nicknames, it's how they got the nicknames that matters.

Scott Pelley

Performance is what matters, not the niceties of the corporate structure, as far as I'm concerned.

Patrick Cescau

We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.

Saint Stephen

This is a turning point in Greek history. It is now time to focus on economic matters.

Andreas Papandreou

Not at all. We're in love. So nothing matters, not even a game of rugby.

Craig Davis

Nothing Matters Really.

Rushi Prabhakar

Guy did a great job, I'm not angry. We were victorious that's what matters to me.

Horace Jenkins

I'm just happy to be back playing hockey with the boys, and that's all that matters.

Mark Parrish

We do not comment on matters with regard to witness protection.

Makhosini Nkosi

I think he's a great choice, and we all congratulate him. I think he's got a great future in the game. You can call him a rookie, but he played NCAA Division I hockey at a high level, and that matters.

Geno Parrish

This is more or less past history. I really don't think it matters as far as the stock is concerned.

Kevin Buttigieg

It's a great feeling. Whoever would have scored, I would have been plenty happy. We won, that's all that matters.

Sadie Lundquist

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

Bobby Fischer

Growing discontent within the Congress with India's nuclear activities would complicate matters enormously for the advocates of the India-U.S. agreement. Rejection of the deal by the Congress will kill it.

Achin Vanaik

Everyone will put their best case forward. We will, the developers will... and what ultimately matters is the decision of the Planning Commission.

Steve Zmak