When I was very young, I was disgracefully intolerant but when I passed the thirty mark I prided myself on having learned the beautiful lesson that all things were good, and equally good. That, however, was really laziness. Now, thank goodness, I've sorted out what matters and what doesn't. And I'm beginning to be intolerant again.
Any innovation in matters of faith is extremely pernicious and utterly damnable!
To me sympathy for a character has little to do with how morally upstanding or wicked they are. All that really matters for me is how human and interesting they are. I happen to be drawn to characters who operate under intense internal pressure, which often comes from some deep psychological conflict.
If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.
Let go of resentment, for it will hold you back. Do not worry about what could've been, what is to come is what matters.
The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands
Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you take only what is worth having. He who takes advice about his savings from one who is inexperienced in such matters, shall pay with his savings for proving the falsity of their opinions.
Though fraud in all other actions be odious, yet in matters of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes his enemies by stratagem is as much to be praised as he who overcomes them by force.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
There should be a connection between a man's hairstyle and what matters to him in life.
If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.
God knows the truth in all of this, and at the end of the day, that is the only thing that matters. Jesus was persecuted, and I'm going to get persecuted, ya know?
Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Did she ever regret her choices? Were her decisions more clear-cut than mine - or are there always shades of gray whe it comes to matters of the heart?
It is indeed remarkable that the nature of our dealings with our fellowmen will determine, in large measure, our status in the kingdom of heaven. . . . We may attend to rites and rituals and yet overlook the weightier matters such as brotherly kindness, honesty, mercy, virtue, and integrity. Let us never forget that if we omit them from our lives we may be found unworthy to come into His presence.
I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
I talk about my daily dozen in the book [ Today Matters]. Twelve things that are certainly attainable by any of us that we need to manage every day.
So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters.
Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it's the feel that matters.