Top 448 Mattered Quotes & Sayings

How acutely sometimes the presence or absence of people mattered

He dreamed of London and of a life that mattered.

...it honestly didn't matter how we humans got to be the way we are, whether evolution or special creation was responsible. What mattered and mattered desperately was our future development. Were we going to go on destroying God's creation, fighting each other, hurting the other creatures of the His planet?

Goor or evil, right or wrong, he mattered to me.

Everything that mattered, I learned from surfing.

Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse Things had happened. In the country that she came from poised forever between the terror of war and the horror of peace Worse Things kept happening

It mattered what someone did to allow you to have the forum to do what you're doing.

I can only guess that, for guys in their 30s and 40s who watched me play, they understood that the score never mattered and my paycheck never mattered (in relation) to how I played. I played with Little League enthusiasm and professional flair. That's what fans are really looking for.

Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.

When I was small and easily wounded books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book they somehow mattered less. My corporeal life was slight the dazzling one in my head was what really mattered. Returning to books was coming home.

But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.

Dogs are how people would be if the important stuff is all that mattered to us.

He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world.

Popper and Nabokov are very different people in some ways - and I'm ready to devote large chunks of my life to both of them. Popper didn't think much of words but thought ideas mattered, and Nabokov didn't think much of ideas, but words mattered, and so on. But both of them had a sense that this is a world of infinite discovery, unending discovery. That quest to discover more in any direction is what I think drives me, and what drives humans, when they're doing the most interesting things.

He didn't care whose league Jordan was in. All that mattered was that she was his.

It didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.

You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.

Just as much as the United States mattered to cotton, cotton mattered to the United States. Cotton reinvigorated slavery, established the young nation's place in the global economy, and eventually helped create the political and economic conflicts that resulted in civil war.

Someone who was a part of my life. Probably the only one that really mattered.

One of the things that I encourage for anybody who is interested in their own charity or philanthropy is to start from where you are and what has mattered to you.

In 'The Sopranos,' these guys know their best years are behind them. They have nostalgia for their old traditions. In their minds, they're looking for a time when loyalty mattered, community mattered. E Street is about community, too. People are looking for something real.

Truth is I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter.

I was so dedicated to generating income to keep my family housed and clothed and schooled. That mattered to me. And playing good golf mattered to me. The rest of the things, like how my record stacked up against others, never made that much difference.

I never really grew up being political or Labour. It was just a realisation that where you were born mattered. That how you spoke mattered... who you knew mattered.

Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything.

Initially, the only thing that mattered to me - I was too young to understand the politics of the day - was that there was a woman who was covering the NFL. I asked my mom if I could be a sportscaster when I grew up. My mom was an adventurous spirit herself. Much to my mom's credit, she said, "Yes, you can." It didn't matter to her that no other women were doing it at the time. It didn't matter to her that there was a double standard. It just mattered that her daughter had a dream and she was going to help her pursue that.

Bowie mattered to me. He reinvented himself so many times - it must have been a daring statement to do that, risking failure. And hanging out with him and seeing him like that - he's my dad's age, born in the same month - when you find someone who's been through a really dark period, which most of his music I care about is from, Low, Lodger, "Heroes" era.... But he came out of it and made something that mattered.

Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.

It hurts because it mattered.

He was gone, and she was broken hearted, that was all that mattered.

I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered.

They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to me in the past!

There was a time when all that mattered was that you were in a good movie.

When it mattered the most, my mother was there for me. It was the moment that erased all those days she wasn't there.

All that mattered was that something had struck the match, and Gansey was burning.

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered.

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.

At this point in my life Id like to live as if only love mattered.

Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.

What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.

Only our memories allow that some people ever existed. That they mattered, or mattered too much.

What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court.

And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.

Rap music's the only thing that ever mattered.

At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered.

There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.

Hannah wasn't my first kiss, but the first kiss that mattered: the first kiss with someone who mattered. (pg 222).

I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

It didn’t matter who was more right. What mattered is that we listened to each other

If size mattered, the elephant would be king of the jungle.

Conversation was irrelevant. Only pie mattered.

I am a fan of cinema. The genre has never mattered much to me.

It was like everyone suddenly knew what mattered. Money didn't matter. Politics didn't matter. Tabloid news didn't matter. No-compassion mattered. Calm mattered. Respect mattered. Did it really take something of this magnitude to make us realize this?

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.

Lying on the front passenger seat, as if it didn't matter, was Rose's Diary. It Mattered.

Death mattered not -- It was a mere puncutation

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered, frankly.