There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
The will is what matters - as long as you have that, you are safe.
Once you get on the playing field it's not about whether you're liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That's what it's about.
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.
We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters.
It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
I just want to continue to play great football - that's all that matters. I don't really care about the accolades or any of that.
Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters.
It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
One who cannot live in harmony with others is regarded as an ignorant fool, even if he happens to be very learned in various matters.
Just as sports teams recognize the potentially game-changing benefit of calling time-outs, failing to do so in matters of warfare is a surefire way to continue losing.
Nothing matters more than your health. Healthy living is priceless. What millionaire wouldn't pay dearly for an extra 10 or 20 years of healthy aging?
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
As a long-time registered Democrat who started voting in the year of Watergate, I resent being taken for a ride to the place where anything goes and nothing matters. And especially where nothing matters less than clear thinking and straight talk.
There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.
The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice, folly, denial or misguided passion. They squander what matters most, and still they pick up the pieces.
Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.
In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing.
Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.
My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters.
As an actor, that's the most that you can hope for - not only being part of a story, but being part of a story that matters.
You can't train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults are gonna squash the creativity that would manifest itself, because they're clueless about what it and why it matters. But science can always benefit from the more brains there are that are thinking about it - but that's true for any field.
I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant - that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, an argument and so on - and I can't do that, and I'm not in that bracket at all.
A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
What matters to me is my own estimation, and I'm very tough on myself. I need to be proud of what I've done and I work hard for it. I had a very Christian upbringing... lots of guilt. A good thing, It keeps you sane.
It's never a matter of career decisions. I don't think in those terms. What matters is whether a role is interesting, if I will enjoy playing it, and if I'm confident I can do a good job.
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
Every vote matters.
