Quotes About Importance

He had once believed that all of existence was under the benign control of a caring omnipotence, after all. And crickets exist to sing us to sleep, too. There was no telling what other foolishness might have crept into his young, naive brain all those millennia ago. No longer, of course. Things end. Species die out. Faith in anything else was a conceit, the product of unchained ego, the curse of supreme self-importance.

She's not listening to us!" "We've been talking too much, that's the problem." "You're right. We should say something important, so she starts listening to us again.

He was not too old, and he had a family—people to fight for, to return to, people that mattered in his life. Those were important things. A necessary pressure, fire for the blood. None of which existed in Gamet's life.

She taught me what's important, and what isn't. And I've never forgotten. And that's what mothers do, I say.

What God has to say to man is infinitely more important than what man has to say to God.

I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

The Deacon moved like a man so sure of himself he'd walk into the pits of Hell and have the balls to tell the Devil to turn down the heat. The thing about men like that, men so blinkered by their own holy importance, was that more often than not they underestimated their enemies.

In politics, reality and appearance are of equal importance. You cannot attend to one and neglect the other. A man must determine both what he is, and what others believe him to be.

The state is the emperor; the emperor is the state. The rest of us are like grains of sand on a beach: interchangeable, indistinguishable, inconsequential. A Roman citizen has no importance whatsoever, no matter how much some of us would like to pretend otherwise.

Itwas one time when people thought the value of the fine structure constant wasimportant. Now of course it's still important, of course, as a practical matter,but we now know that the value it has is a function, that in any fundamental theory you derive the fine structure constant as a function of all sorts of mass ratios and so on, and it's not really that fundamental.

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

My perspective was all wrong. Self-centered. I had to learn, or unlearn my own importance. Only then, could I begin to see. Only then could Wraethru touch me.

We are disposable, Othman is not. They want him, they prize him, they fear and respect him. What is he, huh? What do you think he is?

You, my dear, are a sidekick. You always were in the past, and you are now. Azazel has the power, not you. Do not make the mistake of over-estimating your value.

It's Owen we have to concern ourselves with, not Barbara. She is nothing.

He has an important part of play, and I can't help feeling he is somewhat of a weak link. He is no Daniel Cranton, who's the Shining One's vizier, but I'm afraid he's going to have to assume some of that persona!

You're important, Daniel, you're Shemyaza's vizier. They want you in their clutches, but they won't risk your death.

She wished for what would happen to be something incredible and life-changing. She wished for it to be important.

There is no such thing as unnecessary beauty, whether it be physical or intellectual.

I realize no one thinks being a librarian is as awesome as being a neurosurgeon, but I always thought I was doing something valuable, putting books in the hands of readers. Books can save lives, too. I really believe that.

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart--now, that matters. The whole problem with people is...they know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.