#matters

Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#allies #biological #biological weapons #chemical #deal

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#go #home #matters #mother #well

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#doing #hold #matters #right #standards

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. ↗

— Mary Astell

#life #life is too short #matters #short #span

Hardware works best when it matters the least. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#hardware #least #matters #works

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#garden #give #good #grow #less

The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants. ↗

— Mark Bittman

#ally #better #diet #easy #everyone

The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it. ↗

— Peter Davison

#audience #between #broadcasting #does #hearing

Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own. ↗

— Basil Bunting

#common #jug #kind #listen #look

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#expect #good #good work #matters #mistake