If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up like a fishing-boat in the great Norway horror which decorated our school geographies; for no woman had ever done such a thing, and I could never again hold up my head under the burden of shame and disgrace which would be heaped upon me. But what matter? I had no children to dishonor; all save one who had ever loved me were dead, and she no longer needed me, and if the Lord wanted some one to throw into that gulf, no one could be better spared than I.
It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.
There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.
I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.
What matters to us, the judgment of men? What have we to doubt, since we are pure before life?
That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us to choose what matters to us.
The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.
some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart--now, that matters. The whole problem with people is. . . they know what matters, but they don't choose it. . . The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.
Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.
People come up with resolutions that don’t reflect what matters most to them, and that makes them almost guaranteed to fail.
Heroes inspire us for many reasons: they make tough decisions, they keep going and they get done what matters. But there’s another reason we love our heroes. Inside us all, we know we have the power to become one ourselves.
The heart is what matters most of all
May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.
A living man is blind and drinks his drop. What matter if the ditches are impure? What matter if I live it all once more?
What matters is the imaginative truth.
How do we slow down what matters the most and speed up what benefits change and progress? We don't want to impede progress, but we are seeking reconnection to ourselves, to each other, and with the world.
It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.
The act of envisioning is mainly useful as a means for identifying what matters most to you now.
What works on the net works for people in general. The net has very little to do with technology, what matters is how people use the technology.
But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.