Quotes About Significance

Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life.

Something has to matter. Otherwise, a person's life will be miserable and empty.

Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it.

Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.

As an actor or anybody as a human being, I feel more and more like I want to spend time doing something significant. Because what's the alternative? Spend your life wasting your time.

One year to me is just a small section of life. For most humans, one year is a long time and so much happens. But for the universe, it's very temporary.

What I value in life is quality rather then quantity.

It only takes for one person to remind you that you are special, and then your whole life is changed.

When you understand that life is a test, you realize that nothing is insignificant in your life.

But for now, let's assume that you're properly impressed with words' significance, and therefore stand ready to move on to a related but somewhat more involved aspect of the subject . . . the application of language to the manipulation of reader feelings. Is that important? I won't kid you. It's the foundation stone on which you as a writer stand or fall.

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

We burned not a home, but a symbol. We burned a symbol to the ground.

I love the idea of the big life - the life that matters, the life that makes a difference. The life where stuff happens, where people take action. The opposite of the life where the girl can't even speak to the boy she likes; the opposite of the life where the friends aren't even good friends, and lots of days are wasted away feeling bored and kind of okay, like nothing matters much.

Alec held out his hand. Maurice took it, and they knew at that moment the greatest triumph ordinary man can win.

A story tells us what happened, but a plot tells us why

Besides nature is a theater of secondary importance compared with world history.

Every little trifle, for some reason, does seem incalculably important today, and when you say of a thing that 'nothing hangs on it,' it sounds like blasphemy. There's never any knowing—(how am I to put it?)—which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it for ever.

The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.

She could not have believed that stones, a Loggia, a fountain, a palace tower, would have such significance. For a moment she understood the nature of ghosts.

To them Howards End was a house; they could not know that to her it had been a spirit, for which she sought a spiritual heir.

Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

You only care about the things that you can use, and therefore arrange them in the following order: Money, supremely useful; intellect, rather useful; imagination, of no use at all.

O Reitor veio em auxílio dos dois sunningtonianos [Maurice e Chapman]. Disse ao seu jovem primo [Risley]: - Estás a ser insensato quanto à memória. Confudes aquilo que é importante com aquilo que marca. Sem dúvida que o Chapman e o Hall [Maurice] se lembrarão sempre que te conheceram. ----------------------------------------------------- You confuse what's important with what's impressive. P. 35, MAURICE, E.M. FORSTER