Quotes About Importance

Amici o nemici che importanza ha? Il potere abbatte tutto. Sia gli onesti sia i malvagi finiscono per prostrarsi di fronte a un potere più grande di loro. Noi tutti moriamo e finiamo sottoterra.

sometimes knowing someone for a long time seemed more important than liking them.

If you are a crazy person who needs to have clandestine meetings, then, just like in real estate, what matters most is location, location, location.

What's wrong with Oak? He stomped in here and slammed his door. Is he going to be this dramatic when he's a teenager?' 'He doesn't want to be High King,' I tell her. 'Oh. That.' Vivi glances toward his bedroom. 'I thought it was something important.

Charlie and Doreen had never been particularly friendly, but they knew some of the same people. And sometimes knowing someone for a long time seemed more important than liking them.

He still had a fragment of his boyhood belief that congressmen were persons of intelligence and importance.

Arriving at cell theory has been considered even more important to biology than Darwin's theory of evolution

Was there anything better than to be wanted? Was that all anyone really needed?

I was stunned. I'm not sure why. I think I just never expected him to be importante enough to make any significant changes in his life, but of course, he doesn't know that he's only a minor character in my life. He's the star of his own life, and I'm the minor character. and fair enough too.

We must either reduce the Library to the stinted and specific wants of Congress alone, or permit it to advance to national importance, and give it room equal to the culture, wants, and resources of a great people. The higher education of our common country demands that this institution shall not be crippled for lack of room.

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

We do not think good metaphors are anything very important, but I think that a good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.

It is some disaster for any mind to hold any one thing for truth that is untrue, however insignificant it be, or however honestly it be held. It is a greater disaster when the false prejudice bars the way to some truth behind it, which, but for it, would find an entrance to the soul; and the greatness of the disaster will in this case be measured by the importance of the excluded truth.

I feel that today the importance of grandparents' role within the family is not fully appreciated; children do not usually have the opportunity to be enriched by close proximity to and strong relationships with their grandparents. I know how important those relationships were in my life, and how a lot of the basic understanding I have of life and its values is rooted in my relationship with my grandparents.

Whenever you are dealing with someone or something of unknown value the first one who places a value on it establishes its worth.

The busier we are, the more important it is that we make sure there is special family time. It is not enough to think family time is important; it must be important. What we do is the visible expression of our real values.

The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.

Those who have experienced traumatic events speak about their profound realizations of the importance of kindness, the power of love and their appreciation for what remains. It appears that this level of insight often comes from suffering.

YOU are the one thing in this world, above all other things, that you must never give up on. … You are more precious to this world than you'll ever know.

That reverberation for me is what is most important about literature

I loved the sound of our two typewriters; it felt like we were in a band, making a strange sort of music. It felt like I was part of something, and that the work was important. She always made me feel that the work was important. And then her typewriter stopped and she was watching me. 'Don't stop' I said. 'Your typing makes my brain work better.

It is not just the information that is important. How it is presented is equally important.

Parenting, when it is pursued seriously and thoughtfully, is not only life's most important career, but its most joyful and fulfilling career.

You have to treat everyone you meet as if they are the most important person in the world - because they are. If not to you, then to someone, and if not today, then perhaps tomorrow.