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Quotes About Importance

It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
At five of five, I called the airline number—800-FUCK-YOU—and was told I had to speak directly to lost luggage at the Sacramento Airport. No one answered in Sacramento, though my call was important to them.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
Sam really knew how to handle people, I thought in admiration. He was so self-assured, confident and articulate, but he always listened to what I had to say as if it was the most interesting thing in the world and never spoke down to me. He made me feel important. Or was he simply saying what I wanted to hear like he did with Spencer?
~ Karen King
Io non sono la più importante.» «Ma sei l'unica di cui m'importi.»
~ Karen Sandler
He always took lateness as being rude. It said to the other person that their time was more valuable than yours.
~ Karin Slaughter
Why is it that we always neglect the things that matter most? This is a universal question, because through the days and weeks and months and years after your disappearance, I understood that I did not cherish you enough. I never told you that I loved you enough. I never held you enough. I never listened to you enough. You
~ Karin Slaughter
They had been arguing about something that had seemed desperately important to Claire at the time but now she couldn't remember the topic or even when the argument had occurred. Last week? Last month? She had known Paul for eighteen years, been married to him for almost as long. There wasn't much left that they could argue about with any conviction.
~ Karin Slaughter
Will's scars were both emotional and physical. He didn't trust people - at least not enough. Getting him to talk about his feelings was like pulling teeth. Actually, getting him to talk about anything of true importance was like pulling the Titanic through quicksand. With a shoestring.
~ Karin Slaughter
At least she knew where she fell on his list of priorities: right behind Betty.
~ Karin Slaughter
Every step of real movement is more important than a dozen programmes.
~ Karl Marx
la même importance que la loi de la transformation de l'énergie pour les sciences naturelles, lui fournit ici également la clé pour la compréhension de l'histoire de la deuxième République française.
~ Karl Marx
Ar m?lest?bu ir t?pat k? ar des?m: ir gan liesas c?kga?as ž?v?jumi, gan tradicion?l? Bolo?as desa. Visam ir sava vieta un noz?me.
~ Karlos Ruis Safon
A man has to BE something; he has to matter.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.
~ Joanna Baillie
Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
~ Lafcadio Hearn
Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls.
~ Lauren Bacall
Sometimes the stereotypes that a lot of people have are of black men in jail or who don't take care of their kids, so I think it's always important to have that.
~ Morris Chestnut
Men are led by trifles.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.
~ Robert Burns
We have a whole generation of men who don't understand how much they mean to their kids.
~ Tony Dungy
It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
~ Wendell Phillips
Really, trees are nearly as important as men, and much better behaved.
~ Winifred Holtby