#matter

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#dog #fact #himself #humble #interest

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#course #grown #know #little #man

No matter what else they're doing, women are also always nurturing. ↗

— Cokie Roberts

#always #doing #else #matter #nurturing

There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#church #conclusion #contribution #elements #hostile

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. ↗

— Will Rogers

#being #by the people #democracy #does #four

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#decisions #fence #get #getting #make

I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#believe #degrees #destiny #does #fate

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#art form #artist #being #dragging #feelings

When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#comes #go #i #matter #me

Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

#came #dead #human #human rights #letters