Matter Quotes
17001 Matter quotes by 8051 unique authors
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Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of, while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.
— William Stanley Jevons
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Happiness is the sense that one matters. Happiness is an abiding enthusiasm. Happiness is single-mindedness. Happiness is whole-heartedness. Happiness is a by-product. Happiness is faith.
— Sam Shoemaker
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No matter where I run, I meet myself there.
— Dorothy Fields
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I work in the margins. The margins are where you'll find the nice people. You'll find real friends. You'll find honesty. You'll find integrity. You'll…
— David Knopfler
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Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a…
— Harry Frankfurt
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No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special.
— Kodo Sawaki
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It is indeed remarkable that the nature of our dealings with our fellowmen will determine, in large measure, our status in the kingdom of heaven....We…
— Mark E. Petersen
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If somebody else is making the rules for you, no matter how good the payoff is for you, you're being conned.
— Jon Rappoport
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I also learned that you are affected by your environment, even if you try not to be. Color, light that is, matters because you want…
— Peter Doig
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I know intuitively when the work is right, no training can teach you this, it is simply a matter of feeling.
— Robert Ryan
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The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being and which he…
— Yves Klein
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On Sept 15th [1852] Mr Goulburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer, asked my opinion on the utility of Mr Babbage's calculating machine, and the propriety of…
— Unknown Author
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Curiosity doesn't matter anymore. These days people don't want to be transported to emotional territories where they don't know how to react.
— Unknown Author
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The act of learning itself is no longer seen as simply a matter of information transfer, but rather as a process of dynamic participation, in…
— Unknown Author
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Government should allow persons to engage in whatever conduct they want to, no matter how deviant or abnormal it may be, so long as (a)…
— Unknown Author
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No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.
— Lynn Johnston
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To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.
— Marita Golden
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Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them…
— Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say.…
— Ed Koch
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Always remember no matter how many people say no, all you need to find is one single person to say yes. Just one person.
— Hannah Storm
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Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with a supreme creator,…
— Genesis P-Orridge
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We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident…
— Ernest Lawrence
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Just as the spectroscope opened up a new astronomy by enabling the astronomer to determine some of the constituents of which distant stars are composed,…
— Unknown Author
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We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many…
— Robert K. Merton
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