Matter Quotes

“Energy is the inherent capacity of the universe to make matter exist.”

— Kedar Joshi

“Can anyone survive without faith, however its labeled? No matter how you live, it seems, you need faith to get by, to get ahead.”

— Deborah Feldman

“I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.”

— Julia L. Roberts

“If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.”

— P.C. Cast

“The two people I like most-outside my family-have secrets that I don't ask about. Momma says it's a flaw. She says I should be more interested; that people like to be asked about themselves. I should find out what made them who they are. I look at Shoogy and Bobby and think it doesn't matter 'cause the past doesn't always make sense of the present.”

— Angela Johnson

“Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities
always see them, for they're always there.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

“You have the potential to make healthy choices and balance your priorities no matter where you are on your life journey.”

— Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

“No matter what you do-somebody, somewheres, knew that you would.”

— Ami McKay

“No matter how many years passed or how much responsibility each assumed, they still managed to bicker like bitchy teenagers on a regular basis. In some way, though, each found it comforting; it reminded them how close they really were: Acquaintances were always on their best behavior, but sisters loved each other enough to say anything.”

— Lauren Weisberger

“Every form has its own meaning. Every man creates his meaning and form and goal. Why is it so important - what others have done? Why does it become sacred by the mere fact of not being your own? Why is anyone and everyone right - so long as it's not yourself? Why does the number of those others take the place of truth? Why is truth made a mere matter of arithmetic - and only of addition at that? Why is everything twisted out of all sense to fit everything else? There must be some reason. I don't know. I've never known it. I'd like to understand.”

— Ayn Rand

“I got better and Daisy didn't and I can't explain why. Maybe I was just flirting with madness the way I flirted with my teachers and my classmates. I wasn't convinced I was crazy, though I feared I was. Some people say that having any conscious opinion on the matter is a mark of sanity, but I'm not sure that's true.”

— Susanna Kaysen

“What was the matter that pureness of feeling couldn't be kept up? I see I met those writers in the big book of utopias at a peculiar time. In those utopias, set up by hopes and art, how could you overlook the part of nature or be sure you could keep the feelings up?”

— Saul Bellow

“I will always come for you, always hold on to you. I swear it. I will never let go of you, never fail you, I will hold steady, no matter what.”

— Thea Harrison

“He felt closer to dust, he said, then to light, air or water. There was nothing he found so unbearable as a well-dusted house, and he never felt more at home than in places were things remain undisturbed, muted under the grey, velvety sinter left when matter dissolved, little by little, into nothingness.”

— W.G. Sebald

“For the first time maybe ever, it didn't matter if I looked beautiful or not. I felt it.”

— Kiera Cass

“And things change, she remembered, no matter how hard you try to hold them in place.”

— J.D. Robb

“I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter.”

— Pete Coors

“Words matter. All semester, we were looking for the words to say what we needed to say. We were all looking for our voice.”

— Meg Wolitzer

“I feel like there's something interesting to learn from anyone's story, no matter their place in society. I think we've gotten really far away from that - we're in such a celebrity-obsessed culture.”

— Liz Goldwyn

“I know that I go through life like a drunkard. I'm drunk on illusion. But no matter how drunk I am, there are things I can't help seeing, ferociously real things. I close my eyes, and I reel, I reel. I reel, I believe, I live in a fever and turmoil, I rise into ecstasy, but all the time there is the face of reality staring at me with ugly eyes. I know that if I open my eyes I will be intolerably hurt by the ugliness.”

— Anaïs Nin

“The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.”

— Michael Crichton

“The question, then, is whether being an "individual" makes a difference anymore. That it can matter at all. And if not, whether we in fact care.”

— Chang-rae Lee

“It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.”

— Dan Phillips

“They matched. God made them this way so they would recognize themselves as meant for one another when they were born, so they would always find each other no matter where they were on Earth.”

— Anonymous.

“You know, Italian-Hungarian - no matter how linear and cool I look on the outside, I have all that energy trying to find its way through life.”

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

“All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.”

— George Orwell

“It's like, no matter what I do, I always feel like I'm five years old, and I end up in the back of my father's car looking out the window, and nothing has changed in 25 years.”

— Dylan McDermott

“I think in television and film, it's not usually the child's point of view. It's the story of an adult. If there's a child in a drama or an action-adventure movie, they're someone who needs to be saved, someone who needs to be protected, or if they're killed, someone who needs to be avenged. Their character doesn't matter much.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!”

— A.P. Herbert

“Running well is a matter of having the patience to persevere when we are tired and not expecting instant results.”

— Robert De Castella

“Machiavel, discoursing on these matters, finds virtue to be so essentially necessary to the establishment and preservation of liberty, that he thinks it impossible for a corrupted people to set up a good government, or for a tyranny to be introduced if they be virtuous; and makes this conclusion, 'That where the matter (that is, the body of the people) is not corrupted, tumults and disorders do not hurt; and where it is corrupted, good laws do no good:' which being confirmed by reason and experience, I think no wise man has ever contradicted him.”

— Algernon Sidney

“I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?”

— Rose Kennedy

“No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men.”

— John Alfred Langford

“It doesn't matter if you fall down, it's whether you get back up.”

— Michael Jordan

“No matter how many times something has been observed, it cannot be believed until it has been observed again.”

— Halton Arp

“The philosophical underpinnings of my approach to acting are that there are universal human qualities, and that every character is actually available within each one of us, that if we tap down into that universal humanness, we can find whatever character it is that we need to play already there within ourselves, and it's just a matter of peeling apart the onion that is you and finding that character within you, because of this universal human quality.”

— Misha Collins

“Scripts are what matter. If you get the foundations right and then you get the right ingredients on top, you stand a shot ... but if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don't stand a shot. It's very rare-almost never-that a good film gets made from a bad screenplay.”

— Tim Bevan

“Few things would gratify me as much as a rediscovered respect for things belonging to others. Not abusing the property of others (or that of the community) is one of the ways in which we respect others. It is an essential part of being considerate guests, no matter where we are: in an airplane, in a friend's home, in a movie theater, in a doctor's office, in a public library, or in a public square.”

— P. M. Forni

“There are realities about what it is to be a woman in this world that are born from social convention. No matter how far away you are from civilization, you can't fully get away from that.”

— Jonathan E. Steinberg

“There's been a lot of focus on my body, but it's taught me to appreciate myself no matter where I am.”

— Crystal Renn

“No matter how much money we have or make, we will probably never consider ourselves rich. The biggest challenge facing rich people is that they've lost they're ability to recognize that they're rich.”

— Andy Stanley

“No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more need there is for wit..”

— Sigmund Freud

“American leadership is not simply a matter of going it alone and bearing all of the burden ourselves.”

— Barack Obama

“If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.”

— Evelyn Underhill

“Some people say you're weak because, you know, you're not loud and you're not boisterous and you're not rude. But the fact of the matter is, look and see what I've done. And that speaks volumes about strength.”

— Benjamin Carson

“If I had my choice I'd hang out anywhere. I mean, it doesn't matter. It's all God; it's all the same. There's only nirvana for the enlightened.”

— Frederick Lenz

“It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you tumble; it is only the people who have to stop to be washed and made clean, who must necessarily lose the race. And I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance”

— Thomas Huxley

“In order to help usher in the golden age we must see the good in people. We must know it is there, no matter how deeply it may be buried. Yes, apathy is there and selfishness is there - but good is there also. It is not through judgment that the good can be reached, but through love and faith.”

— Peace Pilgrim

“I loved you for a long, long time
I know this love is real
It don't matter how it all went wrong
That don't change the way I feel
And I can't believe that time's
Gonna heal this wound I'm speaking of
There ain't no cure for love”

— Leonard Cohen

“Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.”

— Charlie Chaplin