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Quotes About Importance

We CAN talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to
~ Lewis Carroll
What do you know about this business?' the King said to Alice. 'Nothing,' said Alice. 'Nothing whatever?' persisted the King. 'Nothing whatever,' said Alice. 'That's very important,' the King said, turning to the jury. They were just beginning
~ Lewis Carroll
important—unimportant—unimportant—important—' as if he were trying which word sounded best.
~ Lewis Carroll
Unimportant, of course, I meant,' the King hastily said, and went on to himself in an undertone, 'important--unimportant-- unimportant--important--' as if he were trying which word sounded best.
~ Lewis Carroll
Sí que lo olvidarás, si no lo escribes.
~ Lewis Carroll
De eso me quejo! ¡Es que deberías haber dicho lo que querías! ¿De qué sirve una niña que habla sin sentido? Incluso los chistes deben tener un sentido y los niños son más importantes que los chistes, espero.
~ Lewis Carroll
People who were helpful and indispensable were loved. Weren't they?
~ Libba Bray
People who knew shit were invaluable in every organization, no matter how large, or how small.
~ Linda Howard
How could an alphabet—letters that didn't even mean anything by themselves—be important? But it was important. Our stories, our names, our alphabet. Even Uncle's newspaper. It was all about words. If words weren't important, they wouldn't try so hard to take them away.
~ Linda Sue Park
Even dumb objects have their destiny. Rarely given a second thought, they perform their unconsidered duty day by day until their moment arrives and everything seems to hang on their location.
~ Lindsay Clarke
I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.
~ Linus Torvalds
I'd argue that everybody wants to do something that matters
~ Linus Torvalds
It was truly extraordinary how many men there were who felt the need of organizing something, of being important.
~ Lion Feuchtwanger
And that's love, yes? Not making all the right decisions all the time, but being there when it matters the most.
~ Lisa Gardner
On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.
~ Jean-Francois Lyotard
History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point.
~ James W. Loewen
The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness - and the other represents oppression.
~ Rowan Atkinson
The most important eugenic policy at this time is to see that birth control is made equally available to all individuals in every class of society
~ Frederick Osborn
The transcendent importance of love and good-will in all human relationships is shown by their mighty beneficent effect upon the individual and upon society.
~ George David Birkhoff
Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
~ Pope John Paul II
Leaving home' to me means adopting the attitude that the pursuit of the truth is more vital than the pursuit of what society — your home — tells you is important.
~ Brad Warner
Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.
~ James Henry Breasted
There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.
~ Keith O'Brien
Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.
~ Georg Baselitz