matter quotes

• I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. (Vladimir Nabokov) [think/matter/love/more]
• Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. (Ernest Hemingway) [think/war/matter/crime]
• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. (Abraham Lincoln) [matter/grandfather]
• The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour. (Margaret Thatcher) [desire/willpower/matter/training]
• Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. (Arthur Conan Doyle) [matter/truth]
• "No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it. (Richard Bach) [matter/willpower/reach/life]
• People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. (Andrew Carnegie) [people/content/matter]
• Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real. (Laurence Olivier) [magic/matter/being]
• A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool. (Henry Fielding) [charity/matter/fool]
• That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain. (Francis Bacon) [matter]
• Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all. (Arthur James Balfour) [matter]
• Acting is a matter of giving away secrets. (Ellen Barkin) [matter]
• No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it. (Henry Ward Beecher) [matter/god/look/happiness]
• Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments. (Walter Benjamin) [matter/interest]
• All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate. (Walter Benjamin) [matter/time/intellect/]
• To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. (Arnold Bennett) [artist/insight/matter/experience]
• He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn. (Jeremy Bentham) [willpower/matter/right/right]
• I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time. ( Napoleon I) [english/willpower/matter/time]
• In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. (Italo Calvino) [love/pleasure/matter]
• Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. (Thomas Carlyle) [imagination/matter/company/understanding]
• Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. (Thomas Carlyle) [age/matter/sorrow/matter]
• The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter. (Barbara Cartland) [right/matter]
• The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter. (Willa Cather) [condition/art/matter]
• What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. (Raymond Chandler) [matter/top/high/water]
• When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball. (Raymond Chandler) [literature/matter/literary style/situation]
• Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. (Coco Chanel) [fashion/matter]
• It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [matter/absurd]
• There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [matter/right]
• I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. (Winston Churchill) [meeting/matter]
• Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the course of a year no matter how absurd that opinion might be. We see every day in politics, in business, in social life, large masses of people brought to embrace the most revolutionary ideas, sometimes within a few days. It is all a question of getting hold of them in the right way and working on their weak points. (Aleister Crowley) [enthusiasm/opinion/matter/absurd]
• The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better. (John Dewey) [matter]

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