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Quotes About Importance

Remember then: there is only one time that is important-- Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary man is he with whom you are, for no man knows whether he will ever have dealings with any one else: and the most important affair is, to do him good, because for that purpose alone was man sent into this life!
~ Leo Tolstoy
Words are important—they can influence, and in some cases rationalize, policy.
~ James W. Loewen
For that matter, even if the owners and workers in a historic site had not included a president, most visitors would want to hear about the important events in their lives, not just about their furniture.
~ James W. Loewen
The freedom of speech is meaningless without the freedom of attention, which is both its complement and prerequisite
~ James Williams
The hours slipped by, and the men and the girls talked and talked as only communists of that wild and irresponsible period could talk when they were among themselves. They were as preoccupied with their own importance and their revolutionairy tasks as children are with new and engrossing toys. I listened as if under a spell. After all, compared with the tight-lipped conspirators of a later decade, we were like children partaking of a heavy wine.
~ Jan Valtin
The hours slipped by, and the men and the girls talked and talked as only communists of that wild and irresponsible period could talk when they were omong themselves. They were as preoccupied with their own importance and their revolutionairy tasks as children are with new and engrossing toys. I listened as if under a spell. After all, compared with the tight-lipped conspirators of a later decade, we were like children partaking of a heavy wine.
~ Jan Valtin
Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.
~ Jane Austen
It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.
~ Jane Austen
Teach us...... that we may feel the importance of every day, of every hour, as it passes.
~ Jane Austen
never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's...
~ Jane Austen
There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion.
~ Jane Austen
never, never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.
~ Jane Austen
by a young woman of inferior birth, of no importance in the world, and wholly unallied to the family!
~ Jane Austen
consequence has its tax;...
~ Jane Austen
I cannot say that I regret my comparative insignificance, Importance may sometimes be purchased too dearly.
~ Jane Austen
She is nothing to me, compared with you.
~ Jane Austen
Every emendation of Anne's had been on the side of honesty against importance. She wanted more vigorous measures, a more complete reformation, a quicker release from debt, a much higher tone of indifference for everything but justice and equity.
~ Jane Austen
Creo [...] que todo hombre debe trabajar en alguna cosa. El dinero en sí no tiene importancia ni finalidad algunas; lo importante es emplear dignamente el tiempo.
~ Jane Austen
I gave 2s. 3d. a yard for my flannel, and I fancy it is not very good, but it is so disgraceful and contemptible an article in itself that its being comparatively good or bad is of little importance. I bought some Japan ink likewise, and next week shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend.
~ Jane Austen
I could not have supposed a niece would ever have been so much to me
~ Jane Austen
Yet oil had already become so essential to modern life that in 1873 the Titusville Morning Herald proclaimed: The production of petroleum has now become of such commercial and social importance to the world that if it were suddenly to cease no other known substance could supply its place, and such an event could not be looked upon in any other light than of a widespread calamity.
~ Jane Brox
But you see, Doug," Jane continued, suddenly animated again, "this just shows you the importance of language. We can discuss these problems. We can teach our children the importance of looking at a problem from different points of view. To keep an open mind. To choose forgiveness instead of revenge.
~ Jane Goodall
The thing is love is really the most important thing. That in love feeling at the beginning settles down into a different, familiar sort of love, but it has to be there right from the start, otherwise it just won't work
~ Jane Green
the reason that you exercise is actually more important than the exercises that you do perform. The reason can promote your good health or actually impede it. Thus
~ Jane Roberts