Quotes of: Matters Keyword

I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't about the finish line but how I got there that mattered.

The Truth About Forever

It went on and on; intentionally, unintentionally, it didn't matter. The end was the same: broken people left in pieces, lives fractured, love bludgeoned.

The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals

Without desires and dreams, your thoughts do not matter and you can think whatever you want to.

Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free

Some screw for science only in the afternoon, while others keep their faith with evening—here Orcutt chuckled—it's a matter of light, I understand, but which makes which I can't remember.

Omensetter's Luck

What often matters more than the activity we're doing at a moment in time is how we feel about it.

Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

All marriages were a consequence of security, tradition, money and beauty. Love was a chance, a lucky coincidence. Its existence was an after-thought, for more serious matters cemented marriage.

One and a Half Wife

When you adapt to someone, they become a part of your routine, a part of you. And when they’re taken away, you feel a bit lost. No matter how much you think it won’t affect your life, it does.

Perfectly Damaged

There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay.

Promises in Death

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

Parallel Lives

The worst kind of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see- the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it.

Pushing the Limits

Sometimes the journey to love involves some bumpy detours, as any girl with an - ex-fiance will tell you. But I've learned a smooth trip isn't particularly important. Getting there is what matters.

Private Practice

The fashion look of teens and twentysomethings -once so cutting edge- is now, like most of the music played on the radio, a matter of routine. Safe, tired, everywhere.

Pretty Vacant: A History of UK Punk

There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.

Picture Perfect

I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your own eyes also. Is love content with that?

Perelandra

Looking at her in the hospital he had thought, I don't know you, who you are, does it matter if we live or die?

A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories

Such was life that morning: nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous." (pg. 18)

Paper Towns

You’ve lied to me. You’ve hid things from me. How dare you talk to me like we’re still friends, like we ever mattered to you at all?--Sydney Field

Royal Bond

I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.

Timequake

Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.

Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry

At this point in my life, beaming confidence is largely a matter of mind over bladder control

And That’s Why I’m Single