What Matters Quotes (page 13)

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• matter
• you
• really

What really matters is what you do with what you have. H. G. Wells

• lies
• lives
• us

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. Henry David Thoreau

• view
• views
• follows

What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn't really matter what you're into - it just means you're not a follower. Kristen Bell

• family
• focus
• friends

What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom. Bob Taft

• hell
• out
• ask

What's the matter with you tonight?" he asked when we were out of earshot of Stirling and Co."I told you."No," he said, "it isn't just the murder tonight. Hell, I've seen you kill people and be less upset afterwards. What's wrong? Laurell K. Hamilton

• power
• army
• short

What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms? in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins. Friedrich Nietzsche

• feeling
• brave
• end

What you feel doesn’t matter in the end; it’s what you do that makes you brave. Andre Agassi

• change
• travel
• journey

what he sought was always something lying ahead, and even if it was a matter of the past it was a past that changed gradually as he advanced on his journey, because the traveller's past changes according to the route he has followed: not the immediate past, that is, to which each day that goes by adds a day, but the more remote past. Arriving at each new city, the traveller finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess... Italo Calvino

• time
• different
• difficult

What sex are you?” Doesn’t matter does it? After all that’s your problem.” If I keep you, what will happen?” You’ll have a difficult, different time.” Is it worth it?” That’s up to you. Jeanette Winterson

• manly
• hard
• know

What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does. Gene Wolfe

• feeling
• feelings
• happening

What's happening is merely what's happening. How you feel about it is another matter. Neale Donald Walsch

• men
• believe
• mind

What a pity to see a mind as great as Napoleon's devoted to trivial things such as empires, historic events, the thundering of cannons and of men; he believed in glory, in posterity, in Caesar; nations in turmoil and other trifles absorbed all his attention...How could he fail to see that what really mattered was something else entirely? Paul Valery

• people
• believe
• world

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done. Arthur Conan Doyle

• believe
• believing
• matter

What really matters is what you believe. Dan Brown

• cans
• will
• willful

What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do. Norton Juster