#matt

I want to be remembered as a woman who was fair and always gave 150 percent, no matter what I did. ↗

— Patti LaBelle

#did #fair #gave #i #matter

I've always been a firm believer in mind over matter. If you don't believe you can achieve, your body will start to believe this and you'll be stuck. ↗

— Sheryl Swoopes

#always #been #believe #believer #body

Therefore God is one, if that which admits of so great power can be nothing else: and yet those who deem that there are many gods, say that they have divided their functions among themselves; but we will discuss all these matters at their proper places. ↗

— Lactantius

#deem #discuss #divided #else #functions

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#course #divorce #love #love is #matrimony

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#anything #away #because #began #benefits

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#civilised #even #great #importance #matter

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful? ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#beautiful #been #chimney #does #hoot

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#controversies #either #evidence #good #matters

The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing. ↗

— David O. Russell

#character #closer #doing #emotional #feel

Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it. ↗

— Mark Russell

#candidate #ever #going #humor #just