Matthew Thomas famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

  • Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.

  • Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.

  • Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.

  • I'm kind of glad that I was able to properly grow up before becoming a massive movie star.

  • This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.

  • Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

  • God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.

  • The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

  • I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.