#matter

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#faith #feel #grave #infallible #like

No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#brave #car #comes #down #every

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#fact #find #folk #human #intelligence

Age does not matter if the matter does not age. ↗

— Jean Paul

#does #matter

Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#kill #matters #now #swinging

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice. ↗

— Quintilian

#contemplation #exercised #matter #mind #moulded

I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you're doing right now. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#amount #because #doing #exposure #fulfilling

You can wish as hard as you like but all that really matters is the shape you're in on the day of the race. I've always felt these really big races aren't necessarily won by whoever is the fastest. They're won by the athlete who is the smartest and in the best shape on the day. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#athlete #best #big #day #fastest

Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#beauty #celibacy #even #having #humanity

The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived. ↗

— Gilda Radner

#ambiguity #cancer #days #die #even