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Tag Name "Mattered" (148)

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Then I went to the morgue and saw that those bones weren't yours, heard your voice again in my head -his eyes closed- and once more, nothing else mattered.
Jeaniene Frost
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How acutely sometimes the presence or absence of people mattered
Kristin Cashore
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So, when I thought June might take you away, I didn’t know what to do. I felt like she was taking everything that mattered to me. I felt like she was taking away from you all the things that I didn’t have. That’s why I’m sorry. I’m sorry because you shouldn’t have to be everything to me. I had you, but I’d forgotten that I had myself too.
Marie Lu
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It didn't matter how big our house was it mattered that there was love in it.
Peter Buffett
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Blanche, prosaic in a pale yellow sweater and blue jeans, was wondering again if anything mattered—-life, faith--specifically, finishing homework assignments.
Regina Doman
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Escape the safety of the small by taking the risks to become part of something bigger. Your true self demands it. Listen for the timer on the oven to sound-that's when the memory curtain parts, flashing moments that really mattered.
Kirby Wright
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You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.
Stephen King
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I realized that you have to deal with a lot of baggage when you write about your own era, that it's harder to separate what is actually compelling from what is interesting simply because it mattered to you at the time.
Christopher Castellani
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Cole sat back up, slowly, and I opened my eyes. His expression, as ever, was blank, the face he wore when something mattered. He said, That's how I would kiss you, if I loved you.
Maggie Stiefvater
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If size mattered, the elephant would be king of the jungle.
Rickson Gracie
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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.
Oprah Winfrey
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To the great pharaohs it mattered a great deal to bury their treasures in the pyramids, which they thought they would bring to the other worlds. But obviously it doesn't matter to them now. They went, the goods stayed.
Frederick Lenz
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They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to me in the past!
Suzanne Collins
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But I think what happened was that Clinton knew how to fight back. And the way he fought back was on the issues - being tough in staying on the things that mattered to people in their lives.
Paul Begala
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And yet, anything real, anything strong, was never easy. She'd been taught from an early age that the things that mattered most were the hardest to obtain.
Nora Roberts
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she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered when she died they gave me her clock
Sherman Alexie
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When it is time for you to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were even here.
Wes Moore
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The people who died in the Twin Towers in that terrible crime mattered. The people who were bombed to death in dusty villages in Afghanistan didn't matter, even though it now seems that their numbers were greater. The people who will die in Iraq don't matter.
John Pilger
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I had very good bosses, very good companies for which I worked. I worked in industries where the results really mattered it wasn't the perception of results, it was just the facts.
Sallie Krawcheck
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The light came into the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it, but that no longer mattered because the light was now obliteration the darkness.
Ted Dekker
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I had a very well-respected writer ask me point blank to my face whether it actually mattered to me. Now, without wanting to reach out and just strangle him or send a few F-bombs his way, I just bit my tongue, told him he offended me and walked away.
Jim Furyk
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It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination.
John Bingham
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In the end, the Tribune lost touch with the world it was supposed to reach it mattered passionately, but almost exclusively, to those who worked for it.
Paul Gray
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To Grace, these were the things that mattered: my hands on her cheeks, my lips on her mouth. The fleeting touches that meant I loved her.
Maggie Stiefvater
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