What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I’m basically a libertarian, and I’m a conservative on economic matters, and I’m a social liberal. – David H. Koch
In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate – and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority. – Dick Cheney
Memoirs are – memory is – rarely 100 percent accurate. Any autobiography is a construct, ballpark, even unnatural. Private diaries, too, can be unreliable – a detail that matters only if the diary is read. – Darin Strauss
Anger is an unnecessary emotion. Loads of stuff in life can trigger it, but what matters is how you react. I choose not to react. – Nicola Adams
Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history. – Doris Kearns Goodwin
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare! – Fyodor Dostoevsky
When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life. That’s all that matters. – Martin Yan
When you write, you don’t have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When you launch a surgical operation, you must already be well deployed to follow it through with larger forces. That complicates matters: you need to be ready for a full-fledged campaign on the operational level and have the diplomatic backing lined up as well. – Ehud Barak
Pretty isn’t the only thing that matters – being smart and kind matters more, of course – but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while. – Meg Cabot
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The thing we found out was, when you get to a Super Bowl, both teams are treated the same, talked about in glowing terms. But when the game is over, only the team that won matters. – Don Shula
You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place. – Elon Musk
In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that’s plutonium. – David R. Brower
President Obama understands women. He trusts women. And on every issue that matters to us, he stands with women. – Cecile Richards
It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement. – Paul Harris
To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public. – Noam Chomsky