Quotes About Importance

Do you ever feel,' he said, 'as if one part of your soul belonged to a world altogether different from this world – as if it were completely disillusioned about all the things that people make such a fuss over and yet were involved in something that was very important?

Maria's subsequent marriage provided a splendid occasion. The groom was Prince Franz Wilhelm ... a great-grandson of the last German kaiser and a cousin of Louis Ferdinand .... Once again the genes of the greater European royal family were pooled. The king and queen of Spain and a number of royal exiles from Italy, Bulgaria, Albania, Portugal and Egypt inflated the importance of the wedding with their presence.

The religious sense of life kicks in when I am rigorously loyal, "religiously" faithful (religio on still another etymology, meaning "scrupulous" or "in a disciplined way") to the service of something other than myself, more important than myself, to which I swear an oath, which has me more than I have it.

If there's no pain and no loss, it's only recreational and we can leave it to the minks. People have to be valued.

Bed is the simplest thing two people can do. If it goes with a lot of other things, it can be important, and if it goes with nothing else, it isn't worth the time it takes.

To this day the historical extent and importance of slavery in any given area in the Americas may very nearly be gauged by the extent and importance of okra, particularly by the degree of acceptance among whites.

Grief is a form of validation; it says the wound mattered. It mattered. You mattered.

The greatest human tragedy is to give up the search. Nothing is of greater importance than the life of our deep heart. To lose heart is to lose everything.

most men have a hard time sustaining any sort of devotional life because it has no vital connection to recovering and protecting their strength; it feels about as important as flossing. But if you saw your life as a great battle and you knew you needed time with God for your very survival, you would do it.

Words are important. Words shaper our perceptions. When they define, they can also distort. There is a far better way to describe this man whose face is the most human face of all. Jesus is beautiful.

All of us in the Congress are made fully aware of the importance of party unity (what sins have been committed in that name!)

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical, and I was never accomplished at that. 'I

El sexo nada importa. El amor, sí

The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.

As a lawyer, she never felt so worthy. As a person, she had never felt so needed.

After a tragedy, those with even the slightest connections to it often exaggerate their involvement and importance.

It is almost impossible to exaggerate its significance.

the only women important enough to have them in Henry II's reign were Catherine de Medici and Diane de Poitiers.

I grew to really love the exquisite humiliation of auditioning. When you audition for a role, everything is organized around reminding you that you do not matter. It's the best therapy I ever received.

I enjoy being seen and recognized. So many people go through life without being seen or recognized at all, not even by their own families. So I know what a gift it is.

Being wrong about important things is exhausting.

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.