I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. – Charles de Gaulle
The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors’ pushup bras? No matter what size you are, it still isn’t good enough. – Adora Svitak
As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English. – Charles Kennedy
The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received. – Caleb Cushing
In my second year in Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I wasn’t getting any bookings, so I stopped going out, stopped partying. It was a matter of getting to the work. I had to focus. – Ashley Greene
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. – Andrew Carnegie
This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm. – Asa Gray
When you make the right decision, it doesn’t really matter what anyone else thinks. – Caroline Kennedy
On ‘Flash,’ you’ve never seen the last of anybody, no matter what happens to them. – Andrew Kreisberg
No matter how big the audience is going to be. I’m interested in doing things that are fun. – Alan Alda
Back in the days of the Smiths, when we first started touring England – this is, like, 1984 – there were these two girls. They were literally vicar’s daughters, and they used to follow us to every gig, no matter where we went. – Andy Rourke
The fact of the matter is, particularly when covering a campaign, which is a very high-speed story, it’s incredibly unusual for the reporter to be in the same place as the dateline when the story is filed. – Andrew Rosenthal
No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension – those moments in which character is forged and revealed. – Brad Stone
As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race. – Cass Sunstein
It isn’t a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that’s beautiful. – Bill Cosby
Role models really matter. It’s hard to imagine yourself as something you don’t see. – Chelsea Clinton
Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor – or for that matter, arch sarcasm – by chief executives. – Alex Berenson
Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited free-association. – Albert Murray
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us. – Charlotte Bronte
By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle? – Abraham Lincoln
No matter what people say, your fans are the ones that come to watch the movie or come to your shows and that’s the most important thing. – Ashlee Simpson
