Destiny is a matter of chance and choice.

Experts tell us that it is not a matter of if a pandemic will hit, it’s a matter of when. It does tend to go in cycles. If a pandemic reaches Idaho soil, state health...

Nothing you do is going to matter that much in the long run. Don’t take yourself so seriously.

It’s not a matter of if, but when we might see another pandemic.

But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts – that is, the meat of the animal itself – should...

‘Referring the matter to a committee’ can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

If I could, I want to take a page from the George Clooney-like actors of the world. They do things that are relevant, things that don’t necessarily have huge box office appeal, but they matter.

Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong. There’s a lot of restriction for contemporary films simply because of...

Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.

No matter how short or long your journey to your accomplishment is, if you don’t begin you can’t get there. Beginning is difficult, but unavoidable!

In the end, all or nothing will matter.

Of course, there will be few people who are sympathetic but you don’t become a great team overnight, no matter how much money you have at your disposal.

When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place...

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the...

I’m learning how to keep my identity and personal life sacred. It’s a matter of knowing my limits. I don’t have to give everything that’s asked of me.

One constant writing ritual, no matter what I’m writing, is that I cannot write if people are around me. It wigs me out – the idea that someone is reading as I’m writing stuff.

It doesn’t matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.

Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war ‘cool.’ As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage.

What we call ‘time’ isn’t chronological but spatial; what we call ‘death’ is merely a transition between different kinds of matter.

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may...

Every song you’re trying to find something that going to connect in different ways but for me the songs that I’m really drawn to are inspirational, songs that lift you and that everybody can relate...

No matter how healthy you are today, you can take specific actions to have more energy and live longer.

Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.

Racism is ridiculous no matter where it’s coming from.

No matter how brilliant an actor is, there’s always a point where they let you down, but that’s all part of their journey. They might be trying something they need to explore.

I like to use my hands and make things… It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn’t matter… some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that – out...

I think there’s a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are.

So many of the properties of matter, especially when in the gaseous form, can be deduced from the hypothesis that their minute parts are in rapid motion, the velocity increasing with the temperature, that the...

I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe...

You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don’t matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you’ll find a way...

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.

INTERNATIONAL scientists said they had found signs of the Higgs boson, an elementary subatomic particle believed to have played a vital role in the creation of the universe after the Big Bang.Peter Higgs is an...

We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.

No matter what you do, you can act your heart out, but people will always say, ‘Oh, Julie Adams – ‘Creature from the Black Lagoon.’

I guess one of the reasons I’m doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter how difficult things are, if you continue to move forward in life, you can eventually...

It is my firm belief that action on the issues that matter for Africa must emerge from within Africa itself.

Well, for us, it’s always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it’s always a big plus no matter what happens.

If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture – in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review – there is...

There’s a certain kind of research you have to listen to – the factual stuff, not opinion. Facts are facts. Sugar is sweet – it’s not a matter of opinion. It just is.

Once we understand how molecules are formed, we can manipulate them. If you can manipulate molecules, you can manipulate genes and matter, you can synthesize new material – the implications are just unbelievable.

You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.

No matter what hyenas sound like, they are not actually laughing.

Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn’t matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.

It really doesn’t matter to me whether it’s defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I’ve been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in...

It doesn’t matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.

If you have what you want to say inside, and if you are crying for something that is true inside, it doesn’t matter. The camera always sees it.

In New York, the theater is a destination point. In Los Angeles, no matter how provocative, how successful, how star-studded the theater event may be, it is, at best, a second-class citizen.

God’s forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I...