#matter

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#love #matter #pleasure #precision #utmost

At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud. ↗

— David Cameron

#back #cut #damaging #decisions #difficult

I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to. ↗

— Anne Campbell

#been #cambridge #chose #continue #disagree

I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#been #concerning #conditions #could #followed

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#imagination #matter #part #poor #understanding

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#children #each #evil #good #how

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#anything #because #dignified #down #else

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter. ↗

— Barbara Cartland

#directs #energy #into #matter #parts

I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting. ↗

— Dan Castellaneta

#i #kind #long #made #matter

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#fashion #matter #proportions