"Concentrate on the things that matter to you."

-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Matter Quotes #Things That Matter Quotes

“I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.”
“You cannot slay yourself in me, Nor I to all eternity Destroy my truest self in you.”

Source : William Rose Benét (1927). “Man Possessed: Being the Selected Poems of William Rose Benét”
“We are being challenged by Islam these years. There are some things for which one should display no tolerance. And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction.”

Source : William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”
“Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.”
“Things are what they are, and whatever will be, will be.”

Source : Jonas Jonasson (2012). “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared”, p.28, Hachette UK
“I am very suspicious of people.”
“There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.”
“Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.”

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