Quotes About Importance

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.

I recognized my work for what it was--as unimportant a drug as cigarettes to get one through the weeks and years. If we are extinguished by death, as I still try to believe, what point is there in leaving some books behind any more than bottles, clothes, or cheap jewellry?

No wine can be regarded as unimportant, my friend, since the marriage at Cana.

That was the difference, he had always known, between his faith and theirs, the political leaders of the people who cared only for things like the state, the republic: this child was more important than a whole continent.

Nunca nos acostumbramos a ser menos importantes para los demás de lo que ellos lo son para nosotros.

Recordé el reloj con pulsera de oro de la señorita Keene, minúsculo como el de una muñeca, regalo de sir Keene por sus veintiún años. En su pequeña esfera contenía todas las cifras de las horas, como si todas ellas tuviesen la misma importancia y un deber especial que cumplir.

There are unimportant pieces in any game.

I would give my life, that's nothing, my soul ... my dear, my dear, try to understand that you are—so important.

Henry was important, but important rather as an elephant is important, from the size of his department; there are some kinds of importance that remain hopelessly damned to unseriousness.

When I looked at him I could see all the delegates sitting there between his ribs and the chief speaker rising and saying, "Freedom is of importance to creative writers." It was very uncanny at breakfast.

She is irrelevant. Irrelevant? No one is irrelevant. There's truth in that. But some are less relevant than others.

was what, she sometimes thought, libraries were for: for men to disappear into and be important in, even though they had disappeared.

Why should you feel honored for getting scraps of his time?

Is he making you happy? I don't mean some of the time, on rare occasions, not that often, "but the good still outweighs the bad." Does he make it clear in his actions every day that your happiness is important to him?

Anyone who assesses you or your relationship as disposable is not worthy of your time or tears.

Your happiness is the most important thing in this life. If you are not happy, you are of no use to anyone else.

It's a big galaxy. The First Order is a remnant born of a war thirty years gone. Yes, they persist, yes, they continue, but by all accounts they do so barely. They are, at best, an ill-organized, poorly equipped, and badly funded group of loyalists who use propaganda and fear to inflate their strength and their importance.

The First Order is a remnant born of a war thirty years gone. Yes, they persist, yes, they continue, but by all accounts they do so barely. They are, at best, an ill-organized, poorly equipped, and badly funded group of loyalists who use propaganda and fear to inflate their strength and their importance.

How can we think we're so important the world reacts to our whims or decisions or mistakes?

God could not possibly love us more than he actually does, and we could not matter more to God than we actually do.

He had grown up believing that the universe was hostile to people and in a way that made them important. They were locked in a grand struggle with a great enemy. The truth was a lot worse. The universe did not care at all.

I think the future is like anything else that's important. It has to be earned. If we don't earn it, we don't have a future at all. And if we don't earn it, we don't deserve it, we have to live in the present, more or less forever. Or worse, we have to live in the past. I think that's probably what love is - a way of earning the future.

each one of us, we all have to earn our future,' she said slowly. 'I think the future is like anything else that's important. It has to be earned. If we don't earn it, we don't have a future at all. And if we don't earn it, if we don't deserve it, we have to live in the present, more or less forever. Or worse, we have to live in the past. I think that's probably what love is—a way of earning the future.

the longer I went without it, the more important it seemed to become.