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Lying on the front passenger seat, as if it didn't matter, was Rose's Diary. It Mattered. -- Caroline B. Cooney
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own. -- John Maynard Keynes
I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered. -- Martina Navratilova
At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered. -- Tracy Chapman
It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using. -- Marlee Matlin
When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about. -- Taylor Swift
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet. -- Stephen King
A British director directed 'American Beauty,' an important film about American life, and it didn't matter. What only mattered was everyone's sensibility. -- Kevin Spacey
I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995. -- Henry Rollins
When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered. -- Mickey Mantle
The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most. -- Curt Schilling
I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy. -- Madeleine Albright
Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him. -- Maggie Smith
I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered. -- Alice Walker
I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result. -- Carly Fiorina
Back when Saddam Hussein was in power, the Americans didn't care about his crimes. When he was gassing the Kurds and gassing Iran, they didn't care about it. When oil was at stake, somehow, suddenly, things mattered. -- Sam Richards
If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that. -- Larry Page
When I was a child, kids used to make fun of me because I was blind. But I just became more curious, 'How can I climb this tree and get an apple for this girl?' That's what mattered to me. -- Stevie Wonder
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. -- Haile Selassie
I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me. -- Nas
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
People often refer to bygone days as a simpler time. Perhaps, more accurately, my grandparents' generation focused better on what mattered. Traffic jams and minor quibbles with my husband Daniel pale in comparison with the worries that were faced on the home front and battlefield during the Second World War. -- Kristina McMorris
One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics. -- Taylor Swift
Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply - yet everyone looks at you differently. -- Matt Damon
It never mattered to me that people in school didn't think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it - though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, 'I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.' -- Taylor Swift
As a teenager, I was teased at school about my height and long legs, but now they are my best assets. Kids can be mean. When I was at school, I considered myself ugly, but that was when I was silly enough to believe that what other people thought mattered. Now I think I am pretty. I'm not beautiful. There is a difference. -- Jasmine Guinness
It hurts because it mattered. -- John Green
The Only mattered to him.Iconoclasm. -- Aporva Kala
Conversation was irrelevant. Only pie mattered. -- Richelle Mead
Everything that mattered, I learned from surfing. -- Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz
Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost. -- Miranda July
Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered. -- Seth Godin
Death mattered not -- It was a mere puncutation -- Nathan Huggins
He dreamed of London and of a life that mattered. -- J. K. Rowling
Ever since I could remember, She was all that mattered. -- James J. Caterino
Goor or evil, right or wrong, he mattered to me. -- Karen Marie Moning
How acutely sometimes the presence or absence of people mattered -- Kristin Cashore
Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered. -- Chuck Palahniuk
If size mattered, the elephant would be king of the jungle. -- Rickson Gracie
My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him... -- John Eldredge
Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered. -- Laura Anne Gilman
He was gone, and she was broken hearted, that was all that mattered. -- Danielle Steel
Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered. -- Gabrielle Zevin
Why was it that they could never shout like that about something that mattered? -- George Orwell
All that mattered was that something had struck the match, and Gansey was burning. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Yes," he said. "You were strong. You were brave. You were good. You mattered. -- Katherine Applegate
My anguish came from my hypothesis that other people's hypothetical hypotheses about me mattered. Ridiculous! -- Martha Beck
When life was taking its ordinary course, it was hard to remember what really mattered. -- Gretchen Rubin
At this point in my life Id like to live as if only love mattered. -- Tracy Chapman
What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations. -- Nicholas Sparks
Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything. -- Anton Corbijn
Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us. -- John Irving
Someone who was a part of my life. Probably the only one that really mattered. -- Franco Nero
At that moment he knew one thing. The only thing that mattered. He loved her. -- Julie James
He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world. -- Gabrielle Zevin
Dogs are how people would be if the important stuff is all that mattered to us. -- Ashly Lorenzana
It didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it. -- Peter Buffett
He didn't care whose league Jordan was in. All that mattered was that she was his. -- Julie James
What happened? How did I get here? How could I have known that my choices mattered? -- Isaac Marion
Only our memories allow that some people ever existed. That they mattered, or mattered too much. -- Joe R. Lansdale
It didn't matter who was more right. What mattered is that we listened to each other -- W. Craig Zwick
Social standing and reptuation has always mattered, but now it 's happening on a global basis. -- Kabir Sehgal
He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered. -- Cheryl Strayed
I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered. -- Edwin Powell Hubble
talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always. -- Sarah Dessen
If patience and gratitude had been she camels, it would have mattered little on which I rode. -- Umar
They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to me in the past! -- Suzanne Collins
It mattered what someone did to allow you to have the forum to do what you're doing. -- Pharoahe Monch
The universe shrank to Curran and his pain. I had to break him free. Nothing else mattered. -- Ilona Andrews
I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera. -- Gene Tierney
Nothing else ever mattered to me, and you weren't even real. All I ever wanted was you. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now. -- Candace Bushnell
The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour -- Hugh Massingberd
The only wealth that mattered was affinity and generosity. Affinity towards oneself and generosity towards the world itself. -- Soroosh Shahrivar
Every moment of life mattered. Even the perfect snowflake that alighted on his palm and melted in seconds. -- Kristen Britain
But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening. -- Sarah Dessen
The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone. -- Elizabeth Strout
All that existed was Jace; all she felt, hoped, breathed, wanted, and saw was Jace. Nothing else mattered. -- Cassandra Clare
Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them. -- Willa Cather
It was the talk that mattered supremely: the impassioned exchange of talk. Love was only a minor accompaniment. -- D. H. Lawrence
Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said. -- Katherine Boo
One slip. One slip in thousands. The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn't mattered. -- Suzanne Collins
...much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said. -- Katherine Boo
The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive. -- Rick Riordan
You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered. -- Stephen King
I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language. -- Marvin Bell
Hannah wasn't my first kiss, but the first kiss that mattered: the first kiss with someone who mattered. (pg 222). -- Jay Asher
The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. -- John Green
Being funny has always mattered a lot to me. It's why I started acting - to make my friends laugh. -- Nick Wechsler
And I went into the new year loving myself a little less, but a little more where it actually mattered. -- Dominic Riccitello
In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you. -- J. K. Rowling
He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams. -- Justina Chen
One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered even over sales. -- Ines de La Fressange
I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered. -- Jane Fonda
Truth is I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter. -- Pete Postlethwaite
Blanche, prosaic in a pale yellow sweater and blue jeans, was wondering again if anything mattered"?-life, faith--specifically, finishing homework assignments. -- Regina Doman
It was the only way he knew to protect the court, the faery, and the only mortal who'd ever mattered to him. -- Melissa Marr
The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble. -- Jesse Helms
Perhaps today was all that mattered. Perhaps today was all anyone could expect. Perhaps tomorrow was always an illusion that never came. -- Mary Balogh
It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress. -- George Weinberg
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There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost. -- Miranda July
What mattered to her was that she loved God, whether or not He granted her the consolation and joy of His felt presence. -- Brian Kolodiejchuk
To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered. Just being nice was not enough. -- Peter Abrahams
For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. -- Richard Bach
We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses. -- Lauren Oliver
and in that instant, nothing else mattered. Not the song, not the place, not the other couples around him. Only this, only her. -- Nicholas Sparks
If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders. -- Dan Farmer
[On the birther movement:] Here we are, quadrillions of bytes deep into the Information Age. And yet information, it seems, has never mattered less. -- Elizabeth Kolbert
People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine. -- Daphne du Maurier
The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning. -- Maya Lin
[On political correctness:] Any intended message mattered less than the received message, and every received message could be interpreted in whatever way the receiver wanted. -- Chuck Klosterman
Nowadays 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself. -- Emma Donoghue
Sometimes I wore a fringe so deep it obscured the way ahead. This hardly mattered. There were always others to look where I was going. -- Quentin Crisp
Nowadays, 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself. -- Emma Donoghue
Time no longer mattered. He knew he would have plenty of it at his disposal. The sight of the star filled him with indescribable longing. -- J. Valor
Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business. -- S. Truett Cathy
We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place. -- Philip Pullman
From my perspective it matters what we do, not what we say. It mattered that we got Bin Laden, not the name we called him. -- Hillary Clinton

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