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Matter Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
- In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to…
- It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a…
- A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who…
- The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas; he…
- Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.
- Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery…
- All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.
- Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey is a colour,…
- Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
- A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man — the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms,…
- In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter…
- Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that…
- Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not…
- ...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like…
More Matter Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as… — Andrea Arnold
- I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter… — Darren Aronofsky
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person… — Richard Attenborough
- The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can… — Chinua Achebe
- Hardware works best when it matters the least. — Norman Ralph Augustine