No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had created those works than hadn't
To be happy - that's all that matters.
As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits.
He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.
And last of all we have the secondary forms of crystals bursting in upon us, and sparkling in the rigidity of mathematical necessity and telling us, neither of harmony of design, usefulness or moral significance, nothing but spherical trigonometry and Napier's analogies. It is because we have blindly excluded the lessons of these angular bodies from the domain of human knowledge that we are still in doubt about the great doctrine that the only laws of matter are those which our minds must fabricate, and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.
It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.
No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.
There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations
There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.
If you love the wrong people it's still love, isn't it, no matter what kind of love.
I think we're used to the black filmmaker coming in and making the all-black subject matter. Especially at Sundance, they're looking for that. It's funny because amongst my filmmaker friends talk about this.
It matters not what you fight but what you fight for.
It doesn't matter if you please the whole world and don't please Jesus. But if you please Jesus, it doesn't matter whom you displease.
It's a matter of each of the two churches being very deeply enculturated in its own setting and having difficulty understand the other.
However incompatible the spirit of Jesus and armed force may be, and however unpleasant it may be to acknowledge the fact, as a matter of plain history the latter has often made it possible for the former to survive.
Genocide is not a legitimate option. It's not ok to decide that an entire population has no right to live in the world. No matter whether these relationships are very proximate or very distant, there is no entitlement to expunge a population or to demean its basic humanity.
I'm not sure who's right, who's wrong, but it doesn't matter. Sometimes you just have to do what you're told. That's who we are!
Kids know what's going on. They always respond to The Beatles, for instance. Doesn't matter when they were born, they always seem to respond. Show me a kid who innately doesn't like The Beatles, and I'll show you a bad seed.
With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.
France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.
