Quotes About Significance

Knowledge has no significance [...] unless it is transformative.

If you can get by with quotes from The Godfather and nothing you say matters, that's pretty bleak, don't you think? Don't we want what we say to matter?

Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.

I cannot abide useless people.

In the time of gods and monsters, what is the worth of a man?

Well, I guess I kinda worked it out. If there's no great glorious end to all this, if nothing we do matters... , then all that matters is what we do. 'Cause that's all there is. What we do. Now. Today.

Which is why we say I can't live without you meaning your life gives life to me, who am otherwise an empty vessel, nameless.

The minutiae of our lives! Telephone calls, errands, appointments. None of these is of the slightest significance to others and but fleetingly to us yet they constitute such a portion of our lives, it might be argued that our lives are a concatenation of minutiae interrupted at unpredictable times by significant events.

It is required that we must be fiercely beloved by one individual in order to exist: for Sabbath, Haley was that individual.

docena de relojes para indicar que el Tiempo es una broma, no existe. Sin embargo, es necesario creer.

And he'd died because that life had mattered to him.

sometimes the littlest thing turns out to be the most important.

Your presence is a present to the world. You are unique and one of a kind. Do not ever forget, for even a day… how very special you are!

Por lo pronto, me puse a medir el tamaño de mi cariño y dio 685 kilómetros por la carretera. Es decir, de aquí a donde tú estás. Ahí se acabó. Y es que tu eres el principio y fin de todas las cosas.

We do things with language, produce effects with language, and we do things to language, but language is also the thing that we do. Language is a name for our doing: both "what" we do (the name for the action that we characteristically perform) and that which we effect, the act and its consequences.

The old adage which says that it is 'whom you know that counts' is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.

Lisa, have you ever met anyone and then known within minutes that he's the most special person you're ever going to meet in your life?

Because men have a history, it is difficult for them to imagine what it is like to grow up without one, or the sense of personal expansion that comes from discovering that we women have a worthy heritage. Along with pride often comes rage – rage that one has been deprived of such a significant knowledge.

It is hard doctrine, but I was beginning to understand it then, and I have not repudiated it till now: that love, not sin, costs us Eden. Love is a carrier of death - the only thing, in fact, that makes death significant.

It is strange to find ourselves people of consequence.

The name one gives is inessential. What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by other name would smell as sweet.

You will carry into eternity the product of your investment in this life. Life is too short and the stakes too high to live mediocre lives.

God makes you an incredible offer:You can give your life in exchange for the same thing for which Jesus spent His life – people. People last forever. For good or bad, they are eternal. Spend your life helping them prepare for their eternity. Don't give your life to mediocrity. Life is too short and the issues of eternity too significant.

There is one thing which no one will permit to be treated lightly—himself.