I got good grades in school, but I'm not sure if I'm smart or if it just means I can study. I've never taken one of those IQ tests, and I don't want to. It's so pointless. As long as you enjoy life and have fun and you're healthy and happy, that's what matters.
You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters?
My talent matters more to me than the money does.
What happens, matters. Maybe only to us but it matters.
When you're dealing with subjective matters, there's no wrong or right answer, it's just, "What do we think is best for the show?"
Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.
I think it's important to break taboos for the same reason it's important to break laws and rules - because either you're a slave to them, or you're taking matters into your hands.
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.
Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies,. . Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.
I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost in irrelevant sub-details.
When it comes to finances, it matters less how much money you make and more how you spend it.
When you are young in this world, you believe that the class of deductive truths about social matters is larger than it turns out to be. [. . . ] I have discovered, to my infinite regret, that most of the serious debates over the basic principles of any political order have an irreducible empirical content.
It doesn't matter what you do. It matters who you are.
The end comes, no matter what. The only thing that matters is, how do you want to go out, on your feet or on your knees?
I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.
Hardware works best when it matters the least.
There must be no coercion in matters of faith!
What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.
What matters now, the only thing that matters right now is that whatever you think of the conservative movement and whoever you think is or isn't one, no matter who you think they are, they cannot unify around the concept of beating a Democrat. That's what you have to learn. If that's the movement you want to be part of, then you have at it.