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Quotes About Importance

What is happening on Planet Earth is of extreme importance to beings living in other parts of our galaxy.
~ Laurence Galian
'Twould be as much as my life was worth.
~ Laurence Sterne
Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace.
~ Cecilia Bartoli
When Pearl asked what his parents did all day, Moody had shrugged. "You know. They go to work." Work! When her mother said it, it reeked of drudgery: waiting tables, washing dishes, cleaning floors. But for the Richardsons, it seemed noble: they did important things.
~ Celeste Ng
When a long, long time later, he stares down at the silent blue marble of earth and thinks of his sister, as he will at every important moment of his life. He doesn't know this yet, but he senses it deep down in his core. So much will happen, he thinks, that I would want to tell you.
~ Celeste Ng
When, a long, long time later, he stares down at the silent blue marble of the earth and thinks of his sister, as he will at every important moment of his life. He doesn't know this yet, but he senses it deep down in his core. So much will happen, he thinks, that I would want to tell you.
~ Celeste Ng
The beautiful, the inessential, must be given priority if it was to exist at all.
~ Celia Fremlin
C'est le malheur de l'esprit humain que les choses les plus lointaines et les moins importantes, telles que les révolutions des corps célestes, lui soient les plus présentes et les mieux connues, alors que les notions morales, toutes proches et de la plus haute importance, restent toujours flottantes et confuses, au gré du souffle des passions qui les pousse, ou de l'ignorance dirigée qui les reçoit et les transmet.
~ Cesare Beccaria
O amor é o grande manifesto; a urgência de ser, de ter alguma importância e, se a morte vier, morrer com valentia, com clamor — em suma, permanecer na memória.
~ Cesare Pavese
Religion consists of believing that everything that happens is extraordinarily important. It can never disappear from the world, precisely for this reason.
~ Cesare Pavese
However, the desire to be enlightened can be a problem. It is when it is not all that important to you that you will attain enlightenment.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them --"ordinary things" is a better expression. That is the way the world is.
~ Chaim Potok
The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
~ Chanakya
I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.
~ Charles Babbage
Americans place 'strong subjective value' on the Father of Waters and will block any diminishment of its flow.
~ Charles Bowden
Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.
~ Charles Bukowski
Sex is interesting but not totally important. I mean, it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. a man can go 70 years without a piece of ass but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.
~ Charles Bukowski
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
~ Charles de Gaulle
In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected." ( Frauds on the Fairies , 1853)
~ Charles Dickens
Mrs. Rouncewell holds this opinion because she considers that a family of such antiquity and importance has a right to a ghost. She regards a ghost as one of the privileges of the upper classes, a genteel distinction to which the common people have no claim.
~ Charles Dickens
have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any of the chickens of the Cock-lane brood. France, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister of the shield and trident,
~ Charles Dickens
a family of such antiquity and importance has a right to a ghost.
~ Charles Dickens
People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received
~ Charles Dickens
British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any
~ Charles Dickens