Quotes About Importance

I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important.

Au milieu de tous les changements, nous ne sommes pas entraînés à distinguer les choses qui restent les mêmes. Et c'est un grand problème parce que, quand on y pense, les choses qui ne changent pas sont presque toujours les plus importantes. »

Aquilo que permanece imóvel, Vadia. No meio de todas as mudanças, nós não estamos treinados para distinguir as coisas que permanecem iguais. E isso é um grande problema, porque, quando se pensa no assunto, as coisas que não mudam são quase sempre as mais importantes.»

Bellacoglienza era rimasta sola, e si stringeva nel suo lettino. Era felice di essere sola. Dante Alighieri, quante parole gli aveva sentito mormorare, quante sciocchezze sussurrano gli uomini in quel momento. Era un poeta importante, le aveva detto qualcuno. Chissà.

Do you know how few men there are worth having?

Why do some details become "history"—included in schoolbooks, in scholarly dissertations, or in personal narratives—while other details are forgotten? What scale of information do we accept when we say that we know something about the past?

Remember: "For want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost, for want of a horseshoe, the horse was lost, for want of a horse, the battle was lost, for want of a battle, the war was lost." This parable should be the mantra of everyone who thinks her or his vote doesn't count.

I began to understand that self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.

This is all the more important today when we have world leaders who don't respect differences. That lack of respect is a dictatorship.

self esteem isn't everything. it's just that there's nothing without it

You're making yourself too important. Guilt comes from feeling we're at the center of the universe. We're not.

The problem with society is that the vast majority of its members consider the superficial things very crucial and the very crucial things superficial.

We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.

Lo que importa más nunca debe de estar a merced de lo que importa menos.

work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.

I'm a father that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

Time waits for no country these days, however, not even one as important, or unimportant, as China. Nero fiddled, Jiang theorizes.

No todo lo que grita más fuerte es lo más perentorio.

Friendship is much more important to a man than marriage.

To walk into an office and have your 'good morning' returned with a grunt and no eye contact is not my idea of a happy house. There is always time to acknowledge that Someone is more important than Something, even if it takes a couple of precious minutes.

Don't major in minor things.

Do you know I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world. Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respects, whether he chooses to be so or not.

You are as important to your health as it is to you.