#matters

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#beginning #beyond #boats #broken #burned

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

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#any #defense #exists #idea #institution

These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#arranged #been #busily #days #employed

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

Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does. ↗

— James Hilton

#any #comes #cost #counting #does

You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters. ↗

— Courtney Thorne Smith

#being #being responsible #disciplined #family #friends

In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation. ↗

— Barbara Olson

#bill clinton #clinton #concern #considerations #even