It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.
You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.
As a matter of fact, I am an uncle. I have nine nephews and nieces. I'm not sure if they think I'm all that quick with a quip. But I'm quick with a spank.
The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.
I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last.
It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian 'wall of separation' between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church.
I think my sensibilities about storytelling and character just automatically come into play when I'm trying to work on any kind of narrative. For me, it doesn't really matter what the source of the narrative is. I will be looking for ways to make it into an intriguing story with empathetic characters.
When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.
You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.
A great story poorly told doesn't do anybody any good at all, and nobody wants to hear it, and nobody wants to read it. The craft of it is really more important than the subject matter.
Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers.
Look at every show on television; it's derivative of another show that came before it. It was only a matter of time. So all you 'Mentalist' fans, it's okay to like the show, but don't be in denial of where it came from. Friday nights, U.S.A., basic cable-style baby.
I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.
If I told you I was a Republican and you were a Democrat, no matter what I said after that, it would be tempered with your opinions.
To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different.
If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.
Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.
No matter what writers say, most stories are about ourselves. The facts might change a little, but not much.
By turning from the surface, one comes closer to the inner laws of matter, which are also the laws of the Spirit.
Everything I have done in my career I have done from my values and doing things the way I like to do. So winning doesn't matter the world for me.
We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.
You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.
Every usage, no matter how bizarre or nonstandard, fascinates me, as it tells me something about the way language is evolving.
All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
The other thing is quality of life; if you have a place where you can go and have a picnic with your family, it doesn't matter if it's a recession or not, you can include that in your quality of life.
I just feel that no matter what comes in a career - and mine has been all over the map - you must stay at the table, pick up the cards you're dealt and play them.
Selling a band predicated on nothing is always an interesting proposition, and of course, the fact of the matter is that I really started out in music before I ever acted, and I've done a ton of singing.
I have personally seen Ted Cruz stand up and fight on the issues that matter the most to conservatives, even when it wasn't popular in Congress.
We need to save the education system. We need to remove education from the framework of the political parties that rule in the State of Israel. We need to increase the allocation of long-term national resources to education and never touch them - no matter what.
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.
