W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What mattered to me was that I didn't compromise my soul in order to try to achieve a kind of popularity. The only thing you can do is just live your life.”
“What mattered was stil there. That was what they all felt, and what surprised them all. What mattered couldnt be shaken.”
Source: Love and Peaches
“What mattered was to read a few books very well, not squander one’s attention promiscuously on a great number of volumes.”
“What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.”
Source: True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness
“What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.”
“What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us. And if the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not entirely without ground for hope. This time however the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time.”
Source: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
“What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?”
Source: Faust: Der Tragödie erster und zweiter Teil. Urfaust
“What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.”
“What matters Death, if Freedom be not dead?
No flags are fair, if Freedom's flag be furled.
Who fights for Freedom, goes with joyful tread
To meet the fires of Hell against him hurled.”
Source: Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems
“What matters finally is not the world's judgment of oneself but one's own judgment of the world.... Any writer who lacks this final arrogance will not survive very long in America.”
Source: Sex, Death, and Money
“What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.”
“What matters in art is not thinking but making.”
“What matters in life is not being a leader but the difference we make in the lives of others”
“What matters in life is not so much what happens to us, but what happens in us”
Source: The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
“What matters in life is to take a stand. There will be situations in life where we must take a stand. If we do not take a stand, then we will fall down in our own eyes. Let us take a stand for what is right. And let us raise our voice against injustice.”
“What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.”
“What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.”
Source: In Defence of Politics
“What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms can throw up miraculous sports like The Importance of Being Earnest or Decline and Fall- what is good is always what is new, in both form and content. What is good forgets whatever models it might have had, and is unexpected; we have to catch it on the wing.”
Source: Literary Occasions: Essays
“What matters in the new economy is not return on investment, but return on imagination”
“What matters in the story of our human relationships is not whether they lead to happily ever after but who and what they make of us. All relationships are our teachers, and this is especially so in a time of societal unraveling.”
“What matters in the world is not so much what is true as what is entertaining, at least so long as the truth itself is unknowable.”
“What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win too. Even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then.”
“What matters is a good person, a good soul, someone who genuinely gives good attention to the relationships in their lives.”
“What matters is abuse, and how it is anchored in a religion that denies women their rights as humans. What matters is that atrocities against women and children are carried out in Europe. What matters is that governments and societies must stop hiding behind a hollow pretense of tolerance so that they can recognize and deal with the problem.”
Source: Infidel
“What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on the last wall of the universe.”
Source: Lion in the Garden: Interviews with William Faulkner, 1926-1962
“What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.”
“What matters is giving over to what you love.”
“What Matters!! Is Grey Matter!”
“What matters is hard work, and emotional intelligence.”
“What matters is hope. The conviction that this Universe has an order, even if it is untrue.”
Source: Anant
“What matters is how I feel about it, cause if I feel good or bad about it, then the audience will feel good or bad about it and that's just sorta the job.”
“What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day; how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.”
“What matters is how many times you get up.”
Source: The Boys In The Boat
“What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.”
“What matters is how well we have loved, and what small part we have played in making the lives around us better.”
“What matters is how you feel inside, because feeling beautiful on the inside is key to looking good.”
“What matters is kindness; what matters is solidarity: What matters is staying alert, staying open, because if we know anything from what has gone before us, it is that the time for feeling will not last.”
Source: The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
“What matters is not how long it takes but the grace of fulfilled dream.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“What matters is not how we died but how we lived.”
“What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.”
Source: The Book of Illusions: A Novel
“What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it.”
“What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.”
“What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is rather to further those social institutions which enable people to continue and to enlarge the production of all those things which they need.”
Source: Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The
“What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it.”
“What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.”
Source: Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
“What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.”
“What matters is not the isolated entity, but the space between things, the relationship of things – the Bond…Every conflict that occurs – whether between husband and wife, social or racial groups – is resolved only when we can fully see and embrace the space – the Bond – between us.”
“What matters is not to know the world but to change it.”
“What matters is not what the goyim say, but what the Jews do.”