#matters

We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment. ↗

— Peter Singer

#buying #consequences #consumer #doing #family

Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#claim #could #did #empirical #empirical fact

When you have a kid, money matters. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#matters #money #you

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#great ones #indicates #indifference #inversion #matters

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#faith #feel #grave #infallible #like

So how does Liz Phair feel about Lana Del Rey? Well, as a recording artist, I've been hated, I've been ridiculed, and conversely, hailed as the second coming. All that matters in the end is that I've been heard. ↗

— Liz Phair

#artist #been #coming #conversely #del

Killing more people won't help matters. ↗

— Jeanette Rankin

#killing #matters #more #more people #people

I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

#department #i #matters #political #talk

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

What we do and say and show really matters. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#really #say #show