I’m 23; I feel older than that, but I feel comfortable. I’m assured of myself, and it’s not a problem.

In football, you have to grow up quickly, and you’re generally more mature than other people your age.

For a player it’s an amazing experience to be at Real Madrid. I matured a lot there, principally as a person.

Mourinho helped me grow. He taught me to be patient, to keep fighting, and to respect the coach’s decisions. He helped me mature and turned me into a man.

I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair.
And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.

Mind over matter, will make the Pooh unfatter.

The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis.

They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

If you fall during your life it doesn’t matter because you’re never a failure if you try to get up

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these fears not on mature opinions, but on irrational fancies, that they are more disturbed by fear of the unknown than by facing facts. Peace of mind lies in being delivered from all these fears.

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.

Don’t matter which way you go Payback’s gonna come your way

There’s no religion that could save me No matter how long my knees are on the floor

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

I am not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well. More important than that, I feel an endless need to learn, to improve, to evolve, not only to please the coach and the fans, but also to feel satisfied with myself. It is my conviction that here are no limits to learning, and that it can never stop, no matter what our age.

Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one’s own secret sin didn’t matter.

No matter how deep our darkness, he is deeper still.

I’ve matured as a person and so has the music… It’s gotten more sophisticated and interesting, I think.

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost – unloved she might as well die.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.

I can say with some confidence that no matter how many obstacles and setbacks you encounter, it is your response that truly matters

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

The person who will make the greatest contribution to a company is the mature person-and you cannot have maturity if you have no life or interest outside the job.

A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.

Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’

Guys want to be respected and acknowledged. They want to feel what they contributed matters.

But you can’t focus on things that matter if all you’ve been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

Never fear dying, beloved. Dying is the last, but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about. Fear living – that is a hard battle to fight, a stern discipline to endure, a rough voyage to undergo.

The pursuit of happiness is a matter of choice.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.” (Frauds on the Fairies, 1853)

If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there’s nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?

On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

My success has a lot to do with my private life. I’ve matured a lot by first becoming a husband and now a father. My life is in the right direction. And that helps a player to thrive. One thing is linked with the other. My private life has helped me

I misjudged her—wasn’t mature enough to understand how difficult it was for her

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.