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Quotes About Importance

My mother fell silent for some moments. Then she said: '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.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Moria would set them straight - at the point of her dagger if needed. Ashyn did not care. She had escaped on her own, and everyone who mattered knew that, and that was what would be important in her life - that those she loved truly valued the role she played. And she would continue playing it, working with them, whatever they needed of her. She was a hero ... to those who mattered.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Ishmael was looking at him through narrowed eyes. "This is very important to you, this box." "It's important to the world." Ishmael said: "The sun rises, and the sun sets. Sometimes it rains. We live, then we die." He shrugged. He would never understand, Wolff thought; but others would.
~ Ken Follett
Estas elecciones son demasiado importantes para que se decidan con un puñado de burlas.
~ Ken Follett
The heart is that kind of map. The self is in the middle and everything else is out of proportion. You draw the friends of your youth large, then later it's impossible to rescale them when other more important people need to be added. Anyone who has done you wrong is shown too big, and so is anyone you loved.
~ Ken Follett
A woman would always prefer to be remembered than forgotten.
~ Ken Follett
the importance of a free press, but it seemed to her that the lack of critical newspapers made it much easier for other forms of oppression to flourish.
~ Ken Follett
Când ai de-a face cu un om mândru, trebuie s? È™tii c? pentru el orgoliul conteaz? mai mult decât mintea.
~ Ken Follett
Aristocratic titles mattered less and less nowadays.
~ Ken Follett
Qué afortunada era teniéndolos a todos juntos en la misma sala, comiendo, hablando y bebiendo vino, y en ese momento pensó que algunas familias hacían aquello mismo todas las semanas, sin darle la menor importancia.
~ Ken Follett
there was nothing, not a thing! about the country that made a man feel Big And Important. If anything it made a man feel dwarfed, and about as important as one of the fish-Indians living down on the clamflats. Important? Why, there was something about the whole blessed country that made a soul feel whipped before he got started.
~ Ken Kesey
Then old Pete was on his feet. "I'm tired!" was what he shouted, a strong, angry copper tone to his voice that no one had ever heard before. Everyone hushed. They were somehow ashamed. It was as if he had suddenly said something that was real and true and important and it had put all their childish hollering to shame.
~ Ken Kesey
I had figured out something that seemed important: every bird had its place. None was "free as a bird." A few kinds were found all over the continent, but they were the exceptions.
~ Kenn Kaufman
The power of publicity is more important than advertising.
~ Barbara Corcoran
What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.
~ Bernard Bailyn
The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.
~ Babatunde Fashola
I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.
~ Maggie Gyllenhaal
We have been through a period where we see power leaching away from Washington. Who is more important in the world today: Bill Clinton or Bill Gates? I don't know.
~ Peter Jennings
I know that whatever power Shelby Steele has always comes out of the writing. I'm not the greatest television pundit or the best public speaker, so it's my writing that's most important.
~ Shelby Steele
A woman today knows that the power of her femininity is very important.
~ Oscar de la Renta
I love whom I love," Prince Lir repeated firmly. "You have no power over anything that matters.
~ Peter S. Beagle
If you're going to offer a position of great power and importance to somebody, you're not gonna do that publicly unless you know they're gonna accept it, because to refuse it is a rebuke.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Power, that's one thing, but love of family and of siblings is more important, is more powerful than any other power - at least earthly power, at least earthly power.
~ Sander Levin
I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. Performers give, and giving is so important. It can heal. That is my experience, anyway.
~ Yoko Ono