#matter

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#around #cheerfulness #depends #fully #matter

I made the contract with God years ago, that no matter what came through, I would say it, but if I ever hurt someone, I would stop. ↗

— Sylvia Browne

#came #contract #ever #god #hurt

It is not enough to receive support, no matter, how needed it may be. It is fundamental to know how to receive this support and ensure that its result is exponential. ↗

— Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

#ensure #exponential #fundamental #how #know

There are no lessons to be learned from the past. This is the first thing I learned from it. There is nothing back then that there isn't here now. There is nothing here now - nothing that matters - that wasn't back then. What matters. Are you a good person? Do you have any love in your heart? What would you do in a given circumstance? It all comes down to something like that. ↗

— Tom Lichtenberg

#learning-from-history #past #what-matters #love

Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross. ↗

— Thomas Malory

#england #hope #immortality #king-arthur #matter-of-britain

The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#alone #belief #causing #extent #global

It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there. ↗

— Elsie de Wolfe

#find #forever #guests #happiness #home

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#across #always #being #clear #common

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 emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea. ↗

— Milton Avery

#aroused #capture #colors #construct #emotion

Unfortunately, no matter how frivolous the lawsuit, you still, of course, have to pay people to defend you on it. ↗

— Kelly Ayotte

#defend #frivolous #how #lawsuit #matter