Quotes About Importance

In the same way that the stewards of the Titanic were more concerned about the unemptied ashtrays on the bar than the enormous hole in the side of the ship which was letting in zillions of gallons of water, I too was worrying about the unimportant and ignoring the vital.

worrying about the unimportant and ignoring the vital.

because the past had shaped the present, it was more important than the present

I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it after all, a place for the genuine.

Childishness is when we're so preoccupied with things that ultimately don't matter, that we lose our essential connection with things that do.

Our womanhood is major business. When it is treated like a minor issue, we burn.

Todas las mañanas, al despertar, podemos bendecir el mundo. Podemos orar para lograr ser hoy los seguidores de algo realmente sagrado y verdadero. Podemos respirar profundo y entregarnos al Plan de Dios por toda nuestra vida. Y, cuando lo hagamos, experimentaremos los milagros. Lo más importante es esto: si no lo hacemos, nos sentiremos deprimidos.

we could wake up to what we were — when we were ocean and before that to when sky was earth, and animal was energy, and rock was liquid and stars were space and space was not at all — nothing before we came to believe humans were so important before this awful loneliness

The more important the event, the more elaborate the costume. Of course God could not care less what she wore, or who baptized the child. But God was not Catholic; Icilma was. The baptism would have to be done in full regalia. She

When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters. There are so many things you would never think to tell anyone. And I believe they may be the things that mean most to you, and that even your own child would have to know in order to know you well at all.

A letter makes ordinary things seem important.

So when she seemed distracted or absent-minded, it was in fact, I think, that she was aware of too many things, having no principle for selecting the more from the less important, and that her awareness could never be diminished, since it was among the things she had thought of as familiar that this disaster had taken shape.

When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters. There are so many things you would never think to tell anyone.

I have always wondered if the Commandments should be read as occurring in order of importance. If that is correct, honoring your mother is more important than not committing murder. That seems remarkable, though I am open to the idea.

It's television that makes things seem important, whether they are or not.

Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, Life is so beautiful, then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.

if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important.

Yet he thought, if I die saying Life is beautiful, then nothing else is important.

I was young myself once, and believe me, in love the truth is of no importance.

La amistad lo es todo. La amistad vale más que el talento. Vale más que el Gobierno. La amistad vale casi tanto como la familia. Nunca lo olvides.

Mocht de patiënte zich op enig moment tijdens de behandeling 'ontgoocheld' voelen - hij pauzeerde even om tot ons te laten doordringen dat deze verduidelijking belangrijk was -, dan zou ze die onmiddellijk kunnen onderbreken.

Without time, nothing had meaning. Never before had I understood how crucial the passage of time was to caring about something. It gave it an expiry date, a wick, a rush, a burn. Without it, everything sat in place, dumbly waiting. In

My life is too important to share with someone who can't understand it.

When it comes to married life, character takes precedence over looks...