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Matter Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does…
- The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.
- Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so.
- Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see…
- Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and…
- The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.
- Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other…
- A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
- Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I…
- There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such…
- If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?
- If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into…
- I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be…
- Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
- - Why me? - That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this…
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana) I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past…
- If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may sometimes seem to…
- We don't make bicycles anymore. It's all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everyone to be happy.…
- To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
- It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it was flattering. To…
- We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out…
- Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enimity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed…
- But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Garden of Eden, everybody just got…
- Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.
- I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.
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