Quotes About Importance

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

A gramme is always better than a damn.

Success went fizzily to Bernard's head, and in the process completely reconciled him (as any good intoxicant should do) to a world which, up till then, he had found very unsatisfactory. In so far as it recognized him as important, the order of things was good.

Una verdad sin interés puede ser eclipsada por una falsedad emocionante.

El éxito se le subió a Bernard a la cabeza y le reconcilió casi completamente (como lo hubiese conseguido cualquier otro intoxicante) con un mundo que, hasta entonces, había juzgado poco satisfactorio. Desde el momento en que le reconocía a él como un ser importante, el orden de cosas era bueno.

Is it true that human beings are nothing but the products of their social environment? And if it is not true, what justification can there be for maintaining that the individual is less important than the group of which he is a member?

Destruir su condicionamiento ante la muerte con aquella indecente explosión de dolor, como si la muerte fuese algo horrible, como si la vida de una persona pudiera llegar a importar tanto!

For the act of criticizing heightened his sense of importance, made him feel larger.

All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.

Exultante ante el pensamiento de que se hallaba solo, enzarzado en una lucha heroica contra el orden de las cosas; animado por la embriagadora conciencia de su significación e importancia individual.

Hoy el inglés se ha convertido en un idioma tan importante que hasta los norteamericanos van a tener que aprenderlo.

My dear papa! I much prefer a smart man of small height than a big dumb idiot!

I desideri sono la cosa più importante che abbiamo e non si può prenderli in giro più di tanto. Così, alle volte, vale la pena di non dormire pur di star dietro a un proprio desiderio. Si fa la schifezza e poi la si paga. E solo questo è davvero importante: che quando arriva il momento di pagare uno non pensi a scappare e stia lì, dignitosamente, a pagare. Solo questo è importante.

Tú crees de verdad que cuando las cosas tienen un número, y una de ellas, en particular, tiene el número uno, lo que tenemos que hacer, lo que tú tienes que hacer, y yo, y todo el mundo, es empezar precisamente por ella, por la única razón de que ésa es la cosa número uno?

I desideri sono la cosa più importante che abbiamo e non si può prenderli in giro più di tanto. Così, alle volte, vale la pena di non dormire per star dietro a un proprio desiderio. Si fa la schifezza e poi la si paga. e solo questo è davvero importante: che quando arriva il momento di pagare uno non pensi a scappare e stia lì, dignitosamente, a pagare.

Maybe we judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.

When you are with somebody you love the smallest, smallest things can be so important, so amusing because love transforms the world, everything. And was that what had happened?

The new lover, of a few weeks standing, may seem more precious than friends of decades.

Everything, all those great things, had happened so far away--or so it seemed to [Mma Ramotswe] at the time. The world was made to sound as if it belonged to other people--to those who lived in distant countries that were so different from Botswana; that was before people had learned to assert that the world was theirs too, that what happened in Botswana was every bit as important, and valuable, as what happened anywhere else.

Pickled onions had nothing to do with moral imagination, but were important in their own quiet, vinegary way, Isabel supposed.

The shoes themselves were light green, with lowish heels (which were very important for comfort and walking; high heels were always a temptation, but, like all temptations, one paid for them later).

That is important," said Mma Makutsi from behind her desk. "One does not want a lady who talks too much.

You can lose a piece of plain bread and not think twice about it, but when you lose one spread thickly with strawberry jam it's an altogether more serious matter.

What a sad reflection that was on the way we ordered our affairs, that anybody should feel that they were just something. Everybody was significant; everybody was as valuable as everybody else. If we stopped thinking that, then any attempt at morality would be built on sand.