Does It Matter Quotes - Page 3

• What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'

  C. S. Lewis

  Father, Long, Heaven

  "A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works".

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• Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

  Albert Camus

  Beautiful, Liars, Lying

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• Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as the past is lost, or is it enough to know yes we lived then, and we are living now, and the connection must be there? Like a river hundreds of miles long exists both at its source and at its mouth, simultaneously?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Reading, Past, Self

  Joyce Carol Oates (1993). “Foxfire: confessions of a girl gang”, E P Dutton

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• Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Matter, Doe, Prozac Nation

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Does it matter whether you hate yourself? At least love your eyes that can see, your mind that can hear the music, the thunder of the wings.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Hate, Eye, Wings

  Robinson Jeffers, “Love The Wild Swan”

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• If the work is good, what does it matter? I'm doing it because I love it. Why not do as many things I love as I can? As long as the work is good.

  James Franco

  Long, Doe, Why Not

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• Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?" I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?

  Jodi Picoult

  Doe, Matter, Speak

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• Time is not measured by the years that you live But by the deeds that you do and the joy that you give- And each day as it comes brings a chance to each one To love to the fullest, leaving nothing undone That would brighten the life or lighten the load Of some weary traveler lost on Life's Road- So what does it matter how long we may live If as long as we live we unselfishly give.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Years, Long, Giving

  Helen Steiner Rice (1988). “Sunshine of Joy”, Fleming H. Revell Company

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• In a course of a lifetime, what does it matter?

  Sharon Creech

  Doe, Matter, Lifetime

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• Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.

  Scott Snyder

  Night, Long, Together

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• Whoa, Dimitri," I said, tossing my bag on the floor. "I realize this is actually a current hit in Eastern Europe right now, but do you think we could maybe listen to something that wasn't recorded before I was born?” Only his eyes flicked toward me; the rest of his posture remained the same. "What does it matter to you? I'm the one who's going to be listening to it. You'll be outside running.

  Richelle Mead

  Running, Eye, Thinking

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.53, Penguin

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• Work has enhanced and certainly supported my feelings toward myself, because it's been a reflection of goals I've set. But if you're not happy with yourself on the inside, then what does it matter?

  Demi Moore

  Reflection, Goal, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?

  Bryan Adams

  Song, Doe, Film Music

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• One can live at a low flame. Most people do. For some, life is an exercise in moderation (best china saved for special occasions), but given something like death, what does it matter if one looks foolish now and then, or tries too hard, or cares too
  deeply?

  Diane Ackerman

  Exercise, Flames, People

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• But we didn't, not in the moonlight, or by the phosphorescent lanterns of lightning bugs in your back yard, not beneath the constellations we couldn't see, let alone decipher, or in the dark glow that replaced the real darkness of night, a darkness already stolen from us, not with the skyline rising behind us while a city gradually decayed, not in the heat of summer while a Cold War raged, despite the freedom of youth and the license of first love-because of fate, karma, luck, what does it matter?-we made not doing it a wonder, and yet we didn't, we didn't, we never did.

  Stuart Dybek

  Love, Summer, Karma

  Stuart Dybek (2004). “I Sailed with Magellan”, p.244, Macmillan

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• The abundance of God is like a mighty ocean, so vast you cannot possibly exhaust it or cause a shortage for others. You can go to this inexhaustible ocean with only a small cup and bring away only that small cup of bounty and blessing. Or, if you have faith enough, you can take a bucket and bring away a bucketful. It makes no difference to the ocean. Nor does it matter how often you go. Abundance is always there.

  Henry Thomas Hamblin

  Ocean, Blessing, Differences

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• What does it matter if a few barking dogs snap at the heels of the weary travelers? ... The caravan moves on

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Dog, Perseverance, Moving

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• What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?

  Sitting Bull

  Prayer, Long, Doe

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• Well, I never been to HeavenBut I been to OklahomaWell, they tell me I was born thereBut I really don't rememberIn Oklahoma, not ArizonaWhat does it matter, what does it matter?

  Hoyt Axton

  Oklahoma, Doe, Matter

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• There is no ideal length, but you develop a little interior gauge that tells you whether or not you're supporting the house or detracting from it. When a piece gets too long, the tension goes out of it. That word—tension—has an animal insistence for me. A piece of writing rises and falls with tension. The writer holds one end of the rope and the reader holds the other end—is the rope slack, or is it tight? Does it matter to the reader what the next sentence is going to be?

  John Jeremiah Sullivan

  Fall, Writing, Animal

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• Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon The author of Lear remains unshaken Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton What does it matter? The Sonnets were written.

  Noel Coward

  Doe, Matter, Mary

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• Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heaven, Doe, Matter

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• What does it matter, all is grace.

  Georges Bernanos

  Grace, Doe, Matter

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• Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion.

  Mata Hari

  Sleep, Doe, Matter

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• As long as we're together, does it matter where we go?

  Gabrielle Aplin

  Long, Together, Doe

  Song: Home, Album: Home, 2013

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