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...

Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that...

Energy is the inherent capacity of the universe to make matter exist.

No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it’s the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.

I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and...

Time is more important than matter,The moment more important than the particle.

I’m a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.

My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.

You have to be doing things that matter – responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.

I dress according to the requirement of the film, as a true actor. Off the camera, I’m just me. I have my preferences and my personal style. Before I step out, I look into the...

No matter how much good you do, there will always be a few per cent of people who don’t support you.

Well, the problem of the federal government is that they print money and go in debt. That’s their national policy, Democrats and Republicans it doesn’t matter. And this is where I differ.

Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.

It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has created God. It is odd that the Bible says, ‘The body is mortal, the soul is...

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat,...

Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you’re not quite up to snuff.

I just love watching football. It doesn’t matter what level it is, whether it’s Fleetwood or Blackpool. I love to go and watch games.

I feel that Jane’s is really a vibe and a time. It wasn’t like we were the Beatles. We didn’t have crafty pop songs where it sort of didn’t matter who played them because they’re...

To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced – this is far...

Brain scans show synchrony between the brains of mother and child; but what they can’t show is the internal bond that belongs to neither alone, a fusion in which the self feels so permeable it...

The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of the Russian poets such as Yevtushenko and Voznesensky – oppositional figures who could...

The question of religion was a matter for each individual’s conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight.

Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that’s their problem. But if you do have...

Matter and energy are dimensions of time.

We’re all people”, he said simply. “It doesn’t matter if you’re two, thirty-two, or ninety-two. Everyone wants to be treated with respect. Everyone wants to feel like they matter in this world.