Quotes About Importance

Here is the death of human pride. Beside the glory of Christ, all human titles are of no importance and all human claims become ridiculous.

Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that's counted truly counts.

The good we never miss we rarely prize

Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.

I believe that the duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world. I further believe that the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.

The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.

Who are you?" "No one of consequence." "I must know." "Get used to disappointment.

It's simple. If your life is more important than your principles, you sacrifice your principles. If your principles are more important than your life, you sacrifice your life.

Second, there is the idea of focusing on whatever has the longest shelf life, while always downplaying the ephemeral.

Hay tres tipos de acciones: físicas, verbales y mentales. Por lo general concedemos mayor importancia a las acciones físicas, luego a las verbales y por último a las mentales.

Superman's cosmopolitan decision could be interpreted simply as DC Comics attempting to appeal to the global market for Superman stuff. Less cynically, though, one blogger said, "It's refreshing to see an alien refugee tell the United States that it's as important to him as any other country on Earth—which, in turn, is as important to Superman as any other planet in the multiverse.

An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important." This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter.

Morris liked to share he books with others. Sometimes it was a favorite that everyone loved, and other times he found a lonely little volume whose tale was seldom told. "Everyone's story matters," said Morris. And all the books agreed.

People only will make an effort to save something they care about, and to care about it, they have to know about it.

Markov's not important,' she said. 'I'm not important. You're not important. Winning the war, that's the only important thing.' 'No,' I said, 'I disagree. Markov was important. So am I and so are you. That's why we have to win.

When there is no news, we will give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

That we can never know," answered the wolf angrily. "That's for the future. But what we can know is the importance of what we owe to the present. Here and now, and nowhere else. For nothing else exists, except in our minds. What we owe to ourselves, and to those we're bound to. And we can at least hope to make a better future, for everything.

And there are even more unusual cases in poetry, where the observation that parentheses include content of secondary importance needs to be turned on its head. In a poem, what is within the parentheses is always significant -- often more so than in the surrounding text.

It's impossible to overestimate the importance of reading aloud in the liturgy of the church. In Catholic Christianity of the time, the 'liturgy of the Word' ranked alongside the 'liturgy of the Eucharist' – as indeed it still does. The

If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. Every moment is the most important moment of your life. No future time is better than now to let down your guard and love.

People are significant in the cosmic scheme of things; and The Earth's biosphere is incapable of supporting human life.

You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children.

Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.