#matt

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest. ↗

— Charles Churchill

#daily #digest #fit #know #little

No matter how difficult your situation may be you have to follow the Lord of the Second Advent completely. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#completely #difficult #follow #how #lord

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#exercise #inanimate #matter #war #will

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#fled #god #had #him #i

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask. ↗

— Robert Motherwell

#behind #european #mask #matter #modern

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#biological #chief #city #convert #creativity

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.' ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#converted #culture #destroy #does #exist

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

#characteristic #disability #entirely #good #health

I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered. ↗

— Martina Navratilova

#i #mattered #people #somehow #stop

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#more #other #people #really #than