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.

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

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

Perhaps the universe is a big fat consciousness and the matter is just an illusion.

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

‘Jump Street,’ I knew we had a great time. It didn’t matter, didn’t know if it was going to do well.

No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.

Seat assignment didn’t matter if you’re flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn’t sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight....

Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.

We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never be complete, for the tensions and the contradictions within them will never be...

My ma and pa are both very artistic, so I suppose it’s in my blood. But my ma’s the one who was into theater and such. I owe my love of it to her. If...

So I’m not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.

I’m interested in seeking projects no matter where, no matter if it is in the United States, whether in Chile, whether in Venezuela.

Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest...

Emptiness is a state of matter.

It didn’t matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republic that supports democratization selectively is another matter.

When she smiles at you, you will feel like the whole world in yours. If you really love her; else her smile wouldn’t matter.

As people, no matter what we are doing, your whole body is living and breathing.

Matter is plastic in the face of Mind.

No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England’s fans down. We are bothered.

I tell you about a fact and truth. In physical reality of matter, there’s no such thing as an imaginary spirit nor spiritual ghost. They are also made of matter, but totally different in size...

No matter how many good deeds we preform, they aren’t the ticket to earning God’s favor. God graces us in spite of what we do in this life, not because of.

While I accept that there are certain things about my private life that will always be of interest to the public, it would be better if you give the same amount of attention to issues...

I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don’t fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren’t a positive example. I want...

Let us begin by doing our best to do our best, every single time, no matter what, forever.

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

Don’t keep looking for “something” in the bag of “nothing”. You will see the same thing again and again no matter how many times you repeat the look.

When your are playing for the national championship, it’s not a matter of life or death. It’s more important than that.

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn’t matter if it’s Chinese, Japanese, anything.

I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don’t last for ever and so...

Magic is a state of matter.

You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying...

Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up in a script, you think, Oh, right, there must be...

You matter.You are important.There is a reason for your existence.You may not see or understand how this is true, but truth doesn’t cease to be truth because of doubt, blindness, or ignorance. And the truth...

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.

We are all murderers and prostitutes – no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

When you’re in the minority, it doesn’t matter what you’re agenda is, you’re not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

It doesn’t matter if it’s black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it’s very good for cinema.

A lot of people think I’m cynical when I talk about acting. The truth of the matter is, I just don’t want someone to get some lame advice that will send them in the wrong...

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

It doesn’t matter what age you are, an effective song will move you.

Einstein, twenty-six years old, only three years away from crude privation, still a patent examiner, published in the Annalen der Physik in 1905 five papers on entirely different subjects. Three of them were among the...

I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter how low it gets, something good will come along – something always comes...

I’m at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I’m a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I’m doing.

The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it’s a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level...