Quotes About Importance

You're part of my chosen family, which is the only kind that matters. Right?

Everything's been said, but it needs saying again.

Don't Shoot! I'm Che. I'm worth more to you alive than dead!

I began to come into close contact with poverty, with hunger, with disease, with the inability to cure a child because of a lack of resources… And I began to see there was something that, at that time, seemed to me almost as important as being a famous researcher or making some substantial contribution to medical science, and this was helping those people.

As our mother earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm in the perishable framework of organic nature. [This] clearly indicates the true place of man in nature, but it dissipates the prevalent illusion of man's supreme importance and the arrogance with which he sets himself apart from the illimitable universe and exalts himself to the position of its most valuable element.

This is an important difference. It turns the questioning into something closer to an interrogation.

Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.

If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

Ci sto io: tutt'insieme divento importante. Finora la mia presenza, c'era o non c'era, non spostava niente. Maria dice che io ci sto e così ecco qua me n'accorgo pur'io che ci sto. Mi chiedo da solo: non me ne potevo accorgere per conto mio di esserci? Pare di no. Pare che ci vuole un'altra persona che avvisa.

But the importance of the Supreme Court's silence should not be underestimated. By declining to enforce the Constitutions's limits on police conduct, the Court was empowering the police and letting officers know that they could violate the Constitution with impunity. And by failing to limit racist policing, the Courts allowed it to continue unchecked.

Already she meant everything to him but he'd completely forgotten her name.

the biggest things command the highest prices. If we haven't the means to pay for a big thing when it is offered us, we must just let it go. But if we have—well, I guess we'd be wise to sell out all the little things and secure it. Those same little things are so almighty small in comparison

Not that the study is not important. A Jewish rabbi I once studies with would often say, 'For us Jews studying the bible is more important than obeying it because if you don't understand it rightly you will obey it wrongly and your obedience will be disobedience. This is also true.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

After all, you can't unwind your most important relationships first, then bide your time with those loved ones while unwinding far less significant relationships

Beauty is less important than quality.

A philosopher – Shestov I think – once noted that, since philosophy deals with the most difficult and important issues concerning existence, philosophers think themselves the most important people. He then notes: "A bank clerk, who is always handing money out, might just as well consider himself a millionaire.

Maybe the world wasn't as good as it should be. There was cruelty in it, and suffering. And life was short--far shorter than was fair... But here and now, it was perfect. And really, there was nothing more important than that.

Part of what makes a job good, they understood, is the sense that what you do matters.

I'm afraid something will happen to my hands," he says, "I need my hands.

Slight not what's near through aiming atwhat's far.

Arnold Schönberg, the inventor of atonal music, gave concerts which might not be comprehensible but were obviously important.

English movies releasing in India should be confined to a certain number.