Quotes About Importance

friends were more important than lovers - not least for the fact that friendships generally lasted longer than relationships.

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

At times, he admitted, he had been very happy in the apple business. He knew what Larch would have told him: that his happiness was not the point, or that it wasn't as important as his usefulness.

Even before she started talking to Franny, I could see how desperately important this woman's private unhappiness was to her, and how—in her mind—the only credible reaction to the event of rape was hers. That someone else might have responded differently to a similar abuse only meant to her that the abuse couldn't possibly have been the same.

What no person has a right to is to delude others into the belief that faith is something of no great significance, or that it is an easy matter, whereas it is the greatest and most difficult of all things.

Goodness gracious!" my grandmother said. "Why didn't you begin with Harvard?" "It's not important to him," my mother said. But Harvard '45 was important enough to my grandmother to calm her troubled hands; they left her brooch alone, and returned to rest in her lap.

You're always telling me I don't have any faith," I wrote to Owen. "Well—don't you see?—that's a part of what makes me so indecisive. I wait to see what will happen next—because I don't believe that anything I might decide to do would matter.

The autobiography part isn't what matters," I began, before I got bogged down in all the amalgams. The

She'd become more concerned about wasting days than wasting profits. It was as if her life had suddenly gained an importance and a weight it previously didn't have, or that she'd denied. She didn't know the reason.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods

Uruk retained a certain importance, but it never recovered its former political power. Its ruins now lie isolated in the deserts of Iraq.

But it is a common mistake to emphasise what you can measure at the expense of more important things that you can't. It is generally better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Upon the forehead of humanity. All its more ponderous and bulky worth Is friendship

Su obligación es servir en silencio lo que le pidan. Si quisiéramos incluirle a usted en nuestra conversación, se lo habríamos indicado. Sepa que estamos discutiendo cuestiones personales de no poca importancia.

The income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence to them.

None of this excuses anyone from mastering the basic ideas and terminology of economics. The intelligent layman must expect also to encounter good economists who are difficult writers even though some of the best have been very good writers. He should know, moreover, that at least for a few great men ambiguity of expression has been a positive asset. But with these exceptions he may safely conclude that what is wholly mysterious in economics is not likely to be important.

The process by which money is created is so simply that the mind is repelled. Where something so important is involved, a deeper mystery seems only decent.

Must like the rest of us on the surface, he had an underlying obliging and considerate strain which barred him from being a really important member of the class. You had to be rude at least sometimes and edgy often to be credited with personality, and without that accolade no one at Devon could be anyone. No one, with the exception of course of Phineas.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

I was asked in an interview which was more important: money or love? I told the interviewer that if he had to ask the question, he wouldn't understand the answer.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. BERTRAND RUSSELL

The truth is more important than the facts. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1867–1959)

In 1881 he became the first to isolate the pneumococcus, a few weeks before Pasteur and Koch. (None of the three recognized the bacteria's full importance.) Sternberg also first observed that white blood cells engulfed bacteria, a key to understanding the immune system.