Matter Quotes

Events are not a matter of chance.

~ Gamal Abdel Nasser

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

~ Stephen Hawking

As years go by, chances of winning here are getting slimmer. That's just a matter of fact. It does get tougher, but it's possible, there's a tiny little chance.

~ Stefan Edberg

But whether, for example, a coat can be exchanged for twenty yards of linen cloth or for forty yards is not a matter of chance, but depends upon objective conditions, upon the amount of socially necessary labor time contained in the coat and in the linen respectively.

~ Rudolf Hiferding

I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

~ Eckhart Tolle

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

~ Simone Weil

It doesn't matter who likes you or doesn't like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

~ Joel Osteen

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

~ Mikhail Bakunin

Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.

~ Orson Pratt

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.

~ Barbara Mcclintock

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?

~ Humphry Davy

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

~ Abraham Lincoln

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to choose love and defy fear.

~ Martha Beck

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

~ Martha Beck

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

~ James Thurber

There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.

~ Nancy Gibbs

Leadership does matter.

~ Mark Rutte

If I could have a Barbie body, which has no cellulite, I totally would. I would like to have a flatter stomach, but that won't happen either. That is never going to happen. No matter how much weight I lose, my stomach, below the belly button, always pooches out.

~ Holly Madison

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

~ Barbara Cartland

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

~ Malcolm X

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

~ Martha Beck

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

~ Vernon Howard

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.

~ Mary Baker Eddy

No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.

~ Carmen Electra

I like when a man has a positive self-image, no matter what he looks like. I'm not into rock-hard abs.

~ Jessica Parker Kennedy

All the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is involved in gravitation, and therefore, since matter and antimatter both represent positive energies, gravitation makes no distinction.

~ Richard P. Feynman

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

~ Martin Scorsese

I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.

~ Sean Penn

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.

~ Charles Eames

Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.

~ Martin Filler

No design, no matter how common or seemingly insignificant, is without its adamant critics as well as its ardent admirers.

~ Henry Petroski

No persons professing to be Christians should enter the marriage relation until the matter has been carefully and prayerfully considered from an elevated standpoint, to see if God can be glorified by the union.

~ Ellen G. White

Once you make a studio 700 million dollars or so, or whatever the insane number is, then they finally seem to trust you, no matter how off-the-wall your project is.

~ Shia Labeouf

Software is like gardening - one day I'll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does it matter a lot?

~ Mike Krieger

Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.

~ Timothy Radcliffe

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!

~ Charles Baudelaire

Beauty doesn't matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.

~ Ann Curry

People are fighting over how our heartsongs are different. But they don't need to be the same. That's the beauty. We are a mosaic of gifts. Each of us has our inner beauty no matter how we look.

~ Mattie Stepanek