#matters

The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes. ↗

— David Simon

#actual #care #emotional #every #go

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word. ↗

— Alan K. Simpson

#bad #bad one #contained #distinguish #education

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

Being one point ahead at the end - that's all that matters. ↗

— Erinn Smart

#being #end #matters #point

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#heart #improbable #matters #nothing #true

The values of confidentiality of matters occurring before the grand jury is very important. ↗

— Kenneth Starr

#confidentiality #grand #grand jury #important #jury

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way. ↗

— David Brooks

#born #did #family #into #matters

I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

#attention #better #calling #explained #human

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#any #fit #interest #just #know