Quotes About Significance

Your divine should not have used water. It just doesn't hold the attention properly. Wine. Or blood, in a pinch. Some liquid that matters.

Your birthday was the seventeenth of last month, in point of fact." "I missed it anyway, then." He closed the bag and stuffed the uniform far back in his closet. "Not important." "It's important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably.

She thought about Ariel again, how much the girl's approval has come to mean to her, and wondered how one's children got so powerful that way.

It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant

This rule is that people always think that if they are very expert at something, that thing must therefore be extremely important.

Eventually he began to consider that the ordering of his recollections was in fact not the most important thing; what was important was the final memory, the one he deliberately kept 'til last, the one that would be nearest to salvation, the one that blazed with light.

People always think that if they are expert at something, that thing must therefore be extremely important.

You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.

it runs in the blood of a man that he should care for womenfolk. It's a need in him, deep as motherhood to a woman, and it's a thing folks are likely to forget. A man with nobody to care for is as lonesome as a lost hound dog, and as useless. If he's to feel of any purpose to himself, he's got to feel he's needed, feel he stands between somebody and any trouble.

A year? What is a year? All time is relative. One day may be a lifetime, a year can be forever. It is not the number of days but what goes into those days.

Who's Mary Bopkins? asked Mrs. Jewls. Was she famous? Why? asked Miss Zarves. Does your class only study famous people? Do you think famous people are more important than people who aren't famous?

But one didn't attach any more significance to these rumours than to the idea that a certain film star had a furry animal removed from his rectum

On the list of qualities necessary to humans trying to make our way through life, truth scores fairly low. Why do people believe and do weird things? Because in the end, feeling alive is more important than telling the truth. We have evolved as living creatures to express ourselves, to be creative, to tell stories. We are instruments for feeling, faith, energy, emotion, significance, belief, but not really truth.

Amy, though the youngest, was a most important person, in her own opinion at least.

Antes de morir espero hacer algo importante, algo heroico o maravilloso, que me permita seguir viva en el recuerdo. No sé qué es, pero no pararé hasta descubrirlo y, algún día, os asombraré a todas.

for as Father says, trifles show character.

I'd rather stay here, thank you." "Well, you can't, there isn't room. Go and make yourself useful, since you are too big to be ornamental.

Just because my dreams are different than yours, doesn't mean they're unimportant.

which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as h umbel as the spider's, what is beautiful that I make? What is elegant? What feeds the world?

Reporters struggled to convey the magnitude of this fine.

When you is precious to God, you become important to Satan.

They are trying to be significant in their universe—trying to mean something more than a random collision of molecules. Though modern philosophy tells them they are nothing, their hearts tell them something else. Because their minds cannot fathom what their hearts know, they feel the weight of the God-placed burden. Art often seems irrational, because the heart is reaching beyond the mind.

6 de noviembre de 1906

La vida real, la más verdadera y más profunda, está hecha de estas pequeñas banalidades.