Quotes About Importance

Maybe, like children, we assume ourselves to be of central importance, and we're not. Maybe the inequities that consume us here on earth aren't really the issue.

But for some reason, these periods of melancholy were important to him, and he rode them out the way some people did migraines.

A man will seek to express his relation to the stars; but when a man's consciousness has been riveted upon obtaining a loaf of bread, that loaf of bread is as important as the stars.

As the importance of ideology declined, I began to feel that maybe ideology was a weapon that suited only certain hostile conditions of life.

Esta foi assim a última lição que Francisca me ensinou: que eu, John Zarco, não tinha qualquer poder mágico. Não havia canções de amor suficientemente poderosas para derrotar a morte. Todas as coisas mais importantes estavam fora do nosso controlo.

Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that's not important.' It was probably important to her.

Don't get starry-eyed about somebody you can't have, especially if it blinds you to somebody who's really important.

Annabeth, thank goodness, would be staying in New York. She'd gotten permission from her parents to attend a boarding school in the city so she could be close to Olympus and oversee the rebuilding efforts. And close to me? I asked. Well, someone's got a big sense of his own importance. But she laced her fingers through mine. I remembered what she'd told me in New York, about building something permanent, and I thought—just maybe—we were off to a good start.

It always disappointed me when mortals put themselves first and failed to see the big picture—the importance of putting me first

It's not important," Silena insisted. "We have to find Charlie!" Another first: a child of Aphrodite uninterested in jewellery.

Every day is an important day, and every second is a growth opportunity to deepen your character, to demonstrate love, or to depend on God.

Las personas son más importantes que el dinero.

In our final moments we all realize that relationships are what life is all about. Wisdom is learning that truth sooner rather than later. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to figure out that nothing matters more.

The eternal salvation of a single soul is more important than anything else you will ever achieve in life. Only people are going to last forever.

There's a use for everything and everything has it's use.

It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak words that matter.

And Edward was surprised to discover that he was listening. Before, when Abilene talked to him, everything has seemed so boring, so pointless. But now, the stories Nellie told struck him as the most important thing in the world and he listened as if his life depended on what she said. It made him wonder if some of the mush from the ocean floor had gotten inside his china head and damaged him somehow.

Don't think you're of little importance, you're somebody,somebody fine. However you tumble and get up and stumble, you're part of a vision devine

The nicest thing you did was to take me seriously when a lot of people wouldn't have, but not too seriously, which was just right.

Thanks, she said. Yeah? For what? he was thinking. You are the only kid in this whole durned school who is worth shooting.

What does he want you to do? What does she? And how can this be accomplished with the least effort possible so that time will be left for the real, important things? Here we are, figuring out how to survive in a hive of hierarchies, and they want us to memorize dates and decline agricola.

A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove . . . . but the world maybe different because I was important in the life of a child.

When you are young, there are many things which appear dull and lifeless. But as you get older, you will find these are the very things that are most important to you.

that all good stories, never mind how radical or traditional their mode of telling, had to contain relationships that are important to us; that move us, amuse us, anger us, surprise us.