#matters

What matters to me is my own estimation, and I'm very tough on myself. I need to be proud of what I've done and I work hard for it. I had a very Christian upbringing... lots of guilt. A good thing, It keeps you sane. ↗

— Jean Dujardin

#christian #done #estimation #good #good thing

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#end #flavor #human #human suffering #in the end

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters. ↗

— William Standish Knowles

#business #family #family background #heavily #matters

It doesn't matter if I don't succeed in something, what matters is that I learn from my mistakes. ↗

— Linda Evans

#learn #matter #matters #mistakes #something

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort. ↗

— Spiro T. Agnew

#deceive #except #i #lying #matters

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more. ↗

— Gordon Brown

#father #i #matters #more #most

There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye. ↗

— Raymond E. Feist

#amazing #amazing life #around #bid #complicated

I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#become #city #congress #estimates #however

What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far. ↗

— Leon Wieseltier

#commitments #far #genuine #identifies #matters

It matters more how one gives than what one gives. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#how #matters #more #than