Quotes About Importance

Those who say that simple things don't matter should ask a lion how he feels when a fly enters a nostril.

As muito feias que me perdoem Mas beleza é fundamental.

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel, are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

the study of theology is the most important human activity.

Theological reflection is the most important activity a person can perform.

Acontece-lhe, às vezes, Théo, de ficar apaixonado? Eu gostaria que isto lhe acontecesse, pois, creia-me, as "pequenas misérias" também têm seu valor.

If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

Maybe I didn't know her as well as I might have wanted. But I can tell you this: love mattered a great deal to Scarlet Montana. I think it must have mattered to Jake too. Because if love hadn't been important to them, they wouldn't have fallen to pieces when it suddenly abandoned them.

Some things are just straw, and some things are gold, and sometimes you just have to know which is which.

The question of the relation of the socialist proletarian revolution to the state, therefore, is acquiring not only practical political importance, but also the significance of a most urgent problem of the day, the problem of explaining to the masses what they will have to do before long to free themselves from capitalist tyranny.

Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

Of all the things I'd ever done, making Senora laugh seemed the most important.

There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten, none are undeservedly remembered

This fundamental dimension of being itself, of the actual existence of what they are studying, is taken for granted by all other branches of knowledge, which then go on to study what it is and how it works. But just because something is taken for granted does not mean that it is unimportant.

There is no priest to interpret it or monopolize the performance of ritual actions, as in some other religions. This is also a reason why translations are not installed in gurdwaras and Sikhs insist on the importance of the original language, for all translations are interpretations to some extent. It is the message contained in the book that matters.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.

As you get older, every chance to win a championship is more crucial, because you are going to have less and less of them.

Normally I don't compromise at all but it felt important to give that song the chance to be heard.

But if Christians don't get Jesus right, what chance is there that other people will bother much with him?