#matters

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free. ↗

— Ray Manzarek

#cone #eat #free #god #good

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

It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#agree #certainly #cruel #currently #difficult

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#child #consults #does #flatters #forward

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#matters #nine #ought #out #proof

You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters. ↗

— Star Jones

#financial #matters #me #none #professional

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#how #matters #more #much #office

Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game. ↗

— Serena Williams

#family #first #game #goes #love

These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but they tell us not why it flows onward and will ever flow. ↗

— Jones Very

#current #direction #ever #external #flow

In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#appears #concerned #decreasing #increasing #large