#matters

Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure. ↗

— Cass Gilbert

#especially #matters #structure

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#arrive #beginnings #being #common #endings

It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#also #asserted #dead #election #issues

I'm a very introverted person. Nothing that's happened has changed that, but one of the reasons I write for teens is it's a real privilege to have a seat at the table in the lives of young people when they're figuring out what matters to them. ↗

— John Green

#figuring #happened #i #i write #introverted

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#good #in the end #journey #matters #towards

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. ↗

— Robert Hall

#conscience #first #last #matters #prudence

Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#gift #honours #important #lacking #lavished

I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi; something with very important subject matters. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#because #epic #every #gandhi #happened

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#confine #human #human spirit #limit #matters

The only thing that matters is that we stand firm. ↗

— Heinrich Himmler

#matters #only #stand #the only thing #thing