Matter Quotes - Page 10

• Remember, it's not what you do but that you do something that matters.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Action, Remember

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• What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination.

  Julius Sumner Miller

  Teacher, Successful, Fire

  "What Science Teaching Needs". Junior College Journal, Volume 38, by American Association of Junior Colleges, Stanford University, 1967.

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• If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so small seems perverse. But the scale doesn't matter.

  Denis Donoghue

  Country, Experience, Division

  1986 We Irish.

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• I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me away from church and community worship to the internal journey. Before my recovery began, I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter.

  Eric Clapton

  Music, Spiritual, Art

  Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway

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• No matter how closely we look, it is difficult to find a mental act that can take place without the support of some physical function.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Hands, Support, Touching

  Moshé Feldenkrais, Elizabeth Beringer (2010). “Embodied Wisdom: The Collected Papers of Moshé Freldenkrais”, North Atlantic Books

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• "All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In every instance its aim is the absolute subordination of the individual.

  Emma Goldman

  Government, Essence, Majority Rule

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.31, 谷月社

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• The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for anything else, no matter how noble the cause, it becomes perverted and justice is weakened. Thus, the law has become perverted by stupid greed and false philanthropy.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Stupid, Law, Organization

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• Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.

  Milton Friedman

  Anarchy, Prohibition, Cures

  Milton Friedman (1972). “An economist's protest: columns in political economy”

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• It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.

  William Gibson

  Statistics, Ifs

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• The propositions of mathematics have, therefore, the same unquestionable certainty which is typical of such propositions as "All bachelors are unmarried," but they also share the complete lack of empirical content which is associated with that certainty: The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.

  Carl Gustav Hempel

  Math, Typical, Statistics

  Carl Gustav Hempel (2001). “The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality”, p.13, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.

  Hippocrates

  Statistics, States, Cures

  Hippocrates (1849). “The Genuine Works of Hippocrates”, p.234

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• The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of structures by successive integrations.

  Francois Jacob

  Shadow, Fiction, Magazines

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• But my later experience has taught me two lessons: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that the most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticised.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Two, Events, Lessons

  Ulysses S. Grant (2007). “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.60, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I don’t care what gender someone is, or what race they are. Those things don’t matter to me.

  Louie Gohmert

  Race, Care, Gender

  "Rep. Louie Gohmert: GOP Leadership Warned Us Not To Attack Nancy Pelosi And Barack Obama" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 16, 2012.

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• I have enormous respect for Tom Daschle. The NRA has not yet taken a formal position on which I'm aware of on this matter, and I think Tom may be just getting a little ahead of things.

  John Dingell

  Taken, Thinking, May

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• Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he has to hold his life as a value-by choice; he has to learn to sustain it-by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Practice, Choices

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.75, Penguin

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• American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Writing, Serious, Literature

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• I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Believe, Character, Writing

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• I think if I have one message, one thing before I die that most of the world would know, it would be that the event does not determine how to respond to the event. That is a purely personal matter. The way in which we respond will direct and influence the event more than the event itself.

  Virginia Satir

  Thinking, Events, Doe

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• I cannot, and will not, vote for Senator John McCain, as a matter of conscience.

  James Dobson

  Vote, Mccain, Senators

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• To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such instances men seize, and call them providences. It is well that they can; but it would be gloriously better if they could believe that the whole matter is one grand providence.

  George MacDonald

  Believe, Men, Humanity

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.1567, Delphi Classics

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• Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation to a nonhuman power.

  Richard Rorty

  Citizens, Relation, Truthfulness

  Richard Rorty (1998). “Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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• To an age which has unashamedly sold itself to the gods of greed, pride, sex, and self-will, the church mumbles on about God's kindness but says virtually nothing about his judgment... The fact is that the subject of divine wrath has become taboo in modern society, and Christians by and large have accepted the taboo and conditioned themselves never to raise the matter.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Sex, Kindness

  J. I. Packer (1973). “Knowing God”, Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press

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• If you have made the good profession, if you claimed to have passed through the gate, if you have received baptism in a public declaration of your faith, and you begin to walk-it doesn't matter how long it appears you're walking in that path-if you step off that path and there's no discipline and you continue on that path, you can have no assurance whatsoever of your salvation. And it is not that you lost your salvation, it's that you're showing now that you never had it. If we would only preach these truths

  Paul Washer

  Discipline, Long, Baptism

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• Happy are they, who in the matter of marriage observe three rules. The first is to marry only in the Lord, and after prayer for God’s approval and blessing. The second is not to expect too much from their partners, and to remember that marriage is, after all, the union of two sinners, and not of two angels. The third rule is to strive first and foremost for one another’s sanctification. The more holy married people are, the happier they are.

  J. C. Ryle

  Prayer, Angel, Blessing

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