#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

In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence. ↗

— John J. Sirica

#because #candor #court #courts #criminal

If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#because #blessing #blessings #explain #god

What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don't listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They're looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did. ↗

— Grandmaster Flash

#degree #demos #did #diverse #guy

In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#colonization #event #grant #lands #matters

...no one likes change unless it is from sommething bad to something good... ↗

— Ron Currie Jr.

#everything-matters #life #ron-currie-jr #change

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#gets #kind #matters #moment #next

And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most. ↗

— Thomas Menino

#birthday #boston #celebration #city #epic

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#call #express #fiction #how #i

I don't know if it matters what country you're from, size of the city you're from, urban or rural, there are people that are hurting each other everywhere. ↗

— Judd Nelson

#country #each #everywhere #hurting #i