Matter Quotes - Page 39

• No matter what he does, one always forgives him. It does not depend upon looks, either – although this actual person is abominably good-looking – it does not depend upon intelligence or character or – anything – as you say, it is just it.

  Elinor Glyn

  Character, Forgiving, Doe

  The Man and the Moment ch. 7 (1914)

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• Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most people think they can get along perfectly well without metaphor. We have found, on the contrary, that metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.

  George Lakoff

  Thinking, People, Monday Morning

  George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (2008). “Metaphors We Live By”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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• Be yourself and you will find, who minds doesn't matter and who matters won't mind.

  Rachel Simmons

  Being Yourself, Mind

  Rachel Simmons (2004). “Odd Girl Speaks Out: Girls Write about Bullies, Cliques, Popularity, and Jealousy”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Anyone who's seen the Wigan [League] players stripped has been faced with the raw truth of the matter... No time for male modelling, and even Princess Di would think twice about getting too close to that lot.

  Colin Welland

  Princess, Player, Thinking

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• To globalize for the sake of globalizing-as a matter of ego-is perilous. Expanding internationally is hard, risky work. Globalization is not just about putting up a plant. It's not about making an acquisition. It's much, much more.

  Kumar Mangalam Birla

  Ego, Acquisition, Sake

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• Everyone has flaws. It's a matter of finding the ones you can live with.

  Moon Unit Zappa

  Flaws, Findings

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• Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick - 16 days.

  Mike Figgis

  Eight, Years, Missing

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• I do believe my life has no limits! I want you to feel the same way about your life, no matter what your challenges may be. As we begin our journey together, please take a moment to think about any limitations you've placed on your life or that you've allowed others to place on it. Now think about what it would be like to be free of those limitations. What would your life be if anything were possible?

  Nick Vujicic

  Believe, Journey, Thinking

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• No matter how dim the light filtering through the trees is, you can still try your best to grasp it. -Kaien Cross

  Matsuri Hino

  Light, Tree, Trying

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• Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Editors, Saws, Looks

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• I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Thinking, Trouble, Subjects

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• No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Winning, Escaping, Law

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• As a very young man I signed a declaration - 'I renounce war and will never support another'. That was in 1939 and I have maintained this stand throughout the whole period, including WW2, as a Conscientious Objector.Worked to achieve Peace since. It is necessary for individuals to take this stand and maintain it. War never solves anything - it accentuates any problem, whatever it is, and makes matters worse. There is no moral or humanitarian justification for it.

  Donald Saunders

  War, Men, Support

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• For the truth is that I already know as much about my fate as I need to know. The day will come when I will die. So the only matter of consequence before me is what I will do with my allotted time. I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.

  Richard Bode

  Fate, Risk, Sailing

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• On your 60th, here's something philosophical
  To give the old grey matter a stir
  How old would you be
  If you didn't know how old you were?

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Philosophical, Grey Matter

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• Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Mean, Squirrels, Laughing

  Nâzım Hikmet, Mutlu Konuk Blasing (1994). “Poems of Nazim Hikmet”

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• Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts. All our concepts and beliefs, no matter how profound they may seem, are like nets which trap us in dualism. When we discover our limits we have to try to overcome them, untying ourselves from whatever type of religious, political, or social conviction may contain us. We have to abandon such concepts as 'enlightenment', 'the nature of the mind', and so on, until we no longer neglect to integrate our knowledge with our actual existence.

  Namkhai Norbu

  Religious, Real, Roots

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• The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority.

  Julius Wellhausen

  Finals, Normal, Authority

  Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

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• Killing more people won't help matters.

  Jeannette Rankin

  People, Helping, Killing

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• The self is fundamentally an illusion arising as a reflection of the soul in matter, much as a clear lake at midnight reflects the moon.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Moon, Reflection, Self

  Fred Alan Wolf (1999). “The Spiritual Universe: One Physicists Vision of Spirit, Soul, Matter, and Self”, p.26, Red Wheel/Weiser

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• There is a spiritual capacity in carbon as there is a carbon component functioning in our highest spiritual experience. If some scientists consider that all this is merely a material process, then what they call matter, I call mind, soul, spirit, or consciousness. Possibly it is a question of terminology, since scientists too on occasion use terms that express awe and mystery. Most often, perhaps, they use the expression that some of the natural forms they encounter seem to be "telling them something."

  Thomas Berry

  Spiritual, Expression, Soul

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.25, Crown

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• That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Lying, Fighting, May

  'The Grandmother' (1859) st. 8

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• RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Philosophy, Lying

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2504, Delphi Classics

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• There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed.

  Ricky Schroder

  Smile, Growing Up, Teenager

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• The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.

  W. Clement Stone

  Law, Lines, Uniforms

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