Matter Quotes - Page 32

• No matter how big you are in the business, at the end of the day it's still work.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  The End Of The Day, Ends, Bigs

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• Nixon urged Clinton to maintain his relationship with Yeltsin but make contact with other democrats in Russia. He warned Clinton away from some ultranationalists and toward those interested in liberty and reform. He pressed Clinton to replace his ambassador in Kiev and concentrate future U.S. economic aid on Ukraine, where it would matter most.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Russia, Ukraine, Liberty

  Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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• Praise of blame in the moment means little: it is how their decisions play out over time that matters, and so the redemption they're looking for is of a more lasting kind. They are one another's peers; who else can really judge them?

  Nancy Gibbs

  Mean, Play, Judging

  Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.563, Simon and Schuster

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• If something fit in with what God had said to me, then I considered it. If not - no matter how attractive it appeared - I refused. The secret of following God's will, I discovered, usually is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God's best.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Secret, Fit, Attractive

  K. P. Yohannan (2014). “Revolution in World Missions: One Man's Journey to Change a Generation”, p.33, Gospel For Asia Books

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• Every Christian leader should have this engraved in his subconscious. No matter what you do, never take yourself too seriously God always chooses the foolish things of this world to confound the wise. He shows his might only on the behalf of those who trust in Him. Humility is the place where all christian service begins.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Christian, Wise, Humility

  K. P. Yohannan (2004). “Revolution in World Missions”, Gfa Books

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• Opinion-sharing sessions are like junk food: they fill you up with starch and leave you feeling both sated and hungry. A sustained inquiry into the truth of a matter is an almost athletic experience; it may exhaust you, but it also improves you.

  Stanley Fish

  Athletic, Feelings, Junk

  Stanley Fish (2012). “Save the World on Your Own Time”, p.35, Oxford University Press

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• No matter how fair the sun shines,
  Still it must set.

  Ferdinand Raimund

  Shining, Sun, Stills

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• I think we should all come together, and that race and color or social demographics really don't matter.

  Joanna Noelle Levesque

  Thinking, Race, Color

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• Without a daily supply of proteins, vitamins, and minerals, no matter how much energy we get in the form of calories, our bodies and minds deteriorate because we are not able to fully replace the dying cells in our internal and external organs.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Cells, Vitamins And Minerals, Mind

  Paul Zane Pilzer (2012). “The New Wellness Revolution: How to Make a Fortune in the Next Trillion Dollar Industry”, p.71, John Wiley & Sons

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• Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.

  Lance Loud

  Believe, Sacred, Sexuality

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• Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Girl, Writing, Principles

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• Worship and spiritual hunger make you so attractive to God that your circumstances cease to matter anymore. He will move heaven and earth to find a worshiper. When you begin to worship with all your being and desire, your heart turns Him toward you. You capture His attention and attracts His affection.

  Tommy Tenney

  God, Spiritual, Moving

  Tommy Tenney (2002). “The God Catchers: Experiencing the Manifest Presence of God”, p.13, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A story: A man fires a rifle for many years, and he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in at the armory, and he believes he’s finished with the rifle. But no matter what else he might do with his hands, love a woman, build a house, change his son’s diaper; his hands remember the rifle.

  Anthony Swofford

  War, Believe, Son

  Anthony Swofford (2008). “Jarhead: A Solder's Story of Modern War”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything is funny from some angle, I assure you it is. It's just a matter of where you're standing.

  Charlie Fletcher

  Angle, Standing

  Charlie Fletcher (2011). “Stoneheart”, p.156, Hachette UK

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• There's little to see, but things leave an impression. It's a matter of time and repetition. As something old wears thin or out, something new wears in. The handle on the pump, the crank on the churn, the dipper floating in the bucket, the latch on the screen, the door on the privy, the fender on the stove, the knees of the pants and the seat of the chair, the handle of the brush and the lid to the pot exist in time but outside taste; they wear in more than they wear out. It can't be helped. It's neither good nor bad. It's the nature of life.

  Wright Morris

  Doors, Buckets, Floating

  Wright Morris, James Alinder (1982). “Photographs & words”, Friends of Photography Bookstore

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• A Christianity that does not have as its primary focus the deepening of passions for God is a false Christianity, no matter how zealously it seeks conversions or how forcefully it advocates righteous behavior.

  J. D. Greear

  Passion, Focus, Doe

  J.D. Greear (2011). “Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary”, p.10, B&H Publishing Group

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• I'm greedier than anyone. I don't want some half-assed happiness I
  don't need some partial warmth. I want a happiness that goes on forever.
  That's impossible, though! I don't know why it is, but in this world,
  some interference is sure to come. Important things break right away.
  I've been alive for twenty-two years, and I know at least this much. It
  doesn't matter what the thing is, but it will break. That's why, from the
  beginning, it's better not to need anything.

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  Years, Two, Forever

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• It is my fixed conviction that if a parent can give his children a passionate and wholesome devotion to the outdoors, the fact that he cannot leave each of them a fortune does not really matter so much.

  Archibald Rutledge

  Children, Giving, Parent

  Archibald Rutledge (2015). “The Doom of Ravenswood”, p.34, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last bookseller who provided chairs where you could sit down and chat and waste a little time between sales. Nowadays books are bought standing. A request for a book and the naming of the price: that is the sort of transaction to which the all-devouring activity of modern trade has reduced bookselling, which used to be a matter for dawdling, idling, and chatty, friendly browsing.

  Jules de Goncourt

  Book, Friendly, Littles

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• MC is a funny girl and always makes me laugh no matter what. I love her!

  Missy Elliot

  Girl, Laughing, Make Me Laugh

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• Matter of fact, the style that people use today, I invented in a way.

  John Milius

  People, Style, Use

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• Successful improvisation is mostly a matter of taking your thoughts out of the equation, because thinking can keep the magic from happening. You have to be open enough to let the magic happen, instead of trying to make it happen because magic is never made.

  Jimmy Herring

  Successful, Thinking, Magic

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• Many of those whose task it is to broker the truth of God to the people of God in the churches have now redefined the pastoral task such that theology has become an embarrassing encumbrance or a matter of which they have little knowledge; and many in the Church have now turned in upon themselves and substituted for the knowledge of God a search for the knowledge of self.

  David F. Wells

  Past, Self, People

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• The Dream Lover is a historical novel at once expansively researched yet intimately imagined. George Sand may be the ultimate Berg heroine. 'A life not lived in truth,' Berg writes, 'is a life forfeited.' In this latest work, Elizabeth Berg has poured her own great gifts and her own great heart into the story of a woman determined to refuse any such forfeiture, no matter the cost.

  Leah Hager Cohen

  Dream, Writing, Heart

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• There’s one thing that’s been 'learned' maybe from Tunisia and Egypt that I think is a mistake. And that is that the existing ruler has to resign. He doesn’t have to resign. You take all the supports out from under him; he falls. No matter what he wants to do. This is the distinction in the analyses between nonviolent coercion in which he has to resign, but he’s forced into it, and disintegration when the regime simply falls apart. There’s nobody left with enough power to resign.

  Gene Sharp

  Mistake, Fall, Thinking

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