"There's pressure, but that's true no matter who you are or what you do."
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"Well, technology is supposed to make life better," she says. "No matter what you believe, there's a technology out there for you."
"You're the one who has to live with your choice, everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will"
"It's wrong," he says. "It doesn't matter if your parents are in a better place, they aren't here with you, and that's wrong, Tris. It shouldn't have happened. It shouldn't have happened to you. And anyone who tells you it's okay is a liar."
"The military gave me structure and process. That reflects on the way I believe we should handle legislative matters. If we do it that way in any field, the results are usually better."
"My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption."
"What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us."
"He is greatly honored by the time we take to weigh with mature deliberation matters having to do with his service, as are all those with which we deal."
"O Monsieur de Sergis, how important a matter is submission of spirit to a superior!"
"There are a lot of guys who have terrible throwing motions-worse than mine. But they still get the ball downfield. That's all that matters."
"Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language."
"No matter what sign you were born under, everybody else's horoscope will be more fun than yours."
"Matter is a term contrary to soul. But nonsoul is its contradictory. Whatever is not soul is nonsoul."
"My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it."
"Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord."
"But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started doing the usual terrible things to him."
"All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me."
"I think it is all a matter of love."
"All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter."
"The relationship of the United States with Mexico is a matter for the United States and Mexico."