Quotes About Significance

The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.

Sometimes it is useful to know how large your zero is.

Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.

Doesn't amount to Hannah Cook

And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken.

Words have meaning and names have power.

Instead of counting your days, make your days count.

There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values.

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.

Don't major in minor things.

[W]hat counts can't be counted.

Non multa sed multum [Not many but much].

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.

Early One Morning takes time and, I mean, all things like that I felt were very important.

That little rock you're so curious about may have seen Alaric sack Rome; it may have glittered in the eyes of Pharaohs. Scythian queens might have danced all night wearing it. Wars might have been fought over it.

That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.

He made her the glowing hot center of his life; he made her feel as if every step she took was important.

To a certain extent, time was malleable, what he did did matter. Grace was proof of that. Naaliyah was alive.

the dreams had ceased coming, as they often did, retreating somewhere else for years, until another event of sufficient significance neared, and the patterns of circumstance dragged them to the surface again.

This, he thinks, is the pure they were always lecturing about at Schupforta.

Ele a fez o brilhante centro da vida dele; ele a fez sentir como se cada passo que ela dava fosse importante.

?????, ornis, it means both bird and omen—

That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.

The Republic is nothing," he said crossly, "a mere name without form or substance.