Matter Quotes - Page 72

What I do not know and cannot even hope to understand before I die is why human beings are willfully, coldly, matter-of-factly cruel to each other ... What nerve has atrophied in the torturer, or worse is sensually moved?

When the sales guys run the company, the product guys do not matter so much, and a lot of them just turn off.

And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.

I must admit that many humans have a strong need to perceive life as in some sense benign and potentially happy. It is also evident that this need cannot be met if we do not experience a salvific change in consciousness, which allows us to perceive a greater, happier reality beyond the world of matter and sense.

No matter who you vote for, the government stays in power

Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be.

In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.

In a crisis, stocks of financial companies are great investments, because the tide is bound to turn. Massive losses on bad loans and soured investments are irrelevant to value; improving trends and future prospects are what matter, regardless of whether profits will have to be used to cover loan losses and equity shortfalls for years to come.

It doesn't matter what people say or what the rules say or what you're supposed to do, you go after what's in your heart.

The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below.

I've never made the film I wanted to make. No matter what happens, it never turns out exactly as I hoped.

It doesn't matter how many times you get knocked down. The only thing that matters is how many times you get up.

In the beginning of time, light drew out matter along with itself into a mass as great as the fabric of the world.

I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.

WOMEN lie about sex. It doesn't matter how many partners she says she's had before you. She's lying.

To me, the acceptable level of fecal matter is... zero.

Good sense is the most equitably distributed of all things because no matter how much or little a person has, everyone feels so abundantly provided with good sense that he feels no desire for more than he already possesses.

The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented.

I believe that the World Wide Web is, as a matter of fact, the noogenesis of the noosphere of the future. This is it!

In doubtful matters boldness is everything.

Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.

It matters more how one gives than what one gives

Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days.