Quotes on Matter

There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.

One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all things as though they were flat and had only two dimensions. This, somehow, seemed to render all matters of intellect shallow and worthless.

The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don't altogether know, filled with matter we can't identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don’t truly understand.

No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain.

Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.

I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.

If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what's it matter what they did to you?

In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.

I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. No matter what the injury - unless it's completely debilitating - I'm going to be the same player I've always been. I'll figure it out. I'll make some tweaks, some changes, but I'm still coming.

It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.)

It doesn't matter how anything happens.