Quotes About Importance

Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival

It doesn't matter, that's the point. It doesn't matter that things don't always work exactly the way you thought they should. Moments matter. People matter, how they feel, how they connect. Who they are alone and together. All that matters, no matter how quickly the moment passes. Maybe because it passes.

That's possible to likely. We're involved, you and me. I'm telling you what I'm going to do because I figure when people are involved, when they matter, they tell each other.

It was a well-aimed arrow. Had anyone even noticed she was no longer at the library? All the people she'd worked with, worked for? All the patrons she'd helped? Had she been so replaceable that her absence hadn't caused a single ripple? Hadn't she mattered at all?

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Power should come from work, time, effort. Care," he added. "As the most important things do.

Words are important, to everyone. When they're not said, they leave holes.

A handy man's worth his weight in gold. You

What's she crying for now? Theo wanted to know as Pilar clung to his father and sobbed. Women wait until it's over before they cry, especially when it's important. Maddy studied the way her father turned his face into Pilar's hair. This is important

Man needs the comfort of the simple as much as he needs the glory

My family's just as important as yours, and I've got as much money and prestige." "Money and prestige don't buy good manners. You aren't showing any at the moment.

Because it's hard not to matter, even to someone you dislike.

I may not know precisely how this sort of thing functions, but I understand perfectly well your family's opinion of me will be important." "My mother and sisters already like you." "They may tend in that direction, until I rudely attend the barbecue without a covered dish.

As to the inventions of printing and of paper, we generally consider these in the wrong oredr, attributing too much importnace to printing and too little to paper.

Bertand Russell: "Even when one feels nearest to other people, something in one seems obstinately to belong to God . . . —at least that is how I should express it if I thought there was a God. It is odd, isn't it? I care passionately for this world and many things and people in it, and yet . . . what is it all? There must be something more important one feels, though I don't believe there is.

a phone without an answering machine would ring incessantly until the caller gave up. You had to answer the phone in order to stop the phone. But the main reason everyone always answered the telephone was the impossibility of knowing who was on the line. Every ringing phone was, potentially, a life-altering event. It might be a telemarketer, but it also might be a death in the family. It could be your next-door neighbor, but it could also be the governor, and there was only one way to find out.

And this is not a criticism of coolness: by and large, the musical component of rock isn't nearly as important as the iconography and the posturing and the idea of what we're supposed to be experiencing. If given the choice between hearing a great band and seeing a cool band, I'll take the latter every single time; this is why the Eagles suck.

And if something is only itself, it doesn't particularly matter.

To matter forever, you need to matter to those who don't care. And if that strikes you as sad, be sad.

The matter forever, you have to matter to those who don't care.

The problem with being talented and gifted is sometimes you get too smart. My uncle Henry says the importance of eating a good breakfast is because your brain is still growing. But nobody talks about how, sometimes, your brain can get just too big.

Everything means something, but not every something matters.

Sometimes what happened now was more important to her than what would happen later, so to hell with it.

I don't believe something's important simply because I'm told it's important; and the inverse, perhaps more crucially, is also true: something isn't unimportant simply because it's been largely overlooked by others.