Quotes About Significance

Si on ne pouvait pas acheter de l'amour avec de l'argent, l'amour perdrait beaucoup de sa valeur et l'argent aussi.

There must be a trick behind it, a dishonest trick, something crooked, something political, something they can understand. They're so used to sniffing at their own behinds that when someone wants to get a breath of fresh air, to turn at last to something different and more important, and threatened, something that's got to be saved at all costs, it's quite beyond them.

Man has always mistreated what was important to him, for his love does not have a tender hand.

The late arrival of the horse in India is not surprising since the horse is not an animal indigenous to India. Even on the west Asian scene, its presence is not registered until the second millennium BC. The horse was unimportant, ritually and functionally, to the Indus civilization.

In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.

September 11, 2001 turned out to be that "Pearl Harbor event" the neoconservatives were hoping for in order to prepare the American people to support the foreign policy for which the neocons longed.

I'd rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.

You know who's one of the great beauties of the world—according to everybody—and I helped create her? Ivanka. My daughter, Ivanka. She's six feet tall, she's got the best body." (Ivanka was twenty-one at the time.)

Life is to be lived for an audience of One.

O ano de 1866 foi uma espécie de annus mirabilis para Mikhail Kátkov, já que nas páginas de sua revista foram publicados, ao mesmo tempo, Guerra e paz e Crime e castigo. Dostoiévski não era o mais fácil dos escritores, mas nessa época era bem mais responsável que Tolstói.

Foi um episódio notável não porque Tolstói tivesse achado a palestra interessante (ele a desdenhou como "uma baboseira infantil"), mas sim porque foi a única vez em que ele e Dostoiévski estiveram fisicamente próximos um do outro

Unlike success and failure, contribution has no other side.

The world was tender with significance.

The world was tender with significance. "Onizhishin, so beautiful," Patrice murmured.

T]he Dollar is always too light, a genuine Holy Ghost, more precious than blood.

Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by being on the edge, become a part of the edge and thus a part of the boundary, the definition which gives the whole its shape?

Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of our lives in reference to them.

Je suppose qu'il serait difficile d'envisager de la garder. - Il n'en est pas question ! A quoi pourrait-elle bien nous servir ? - Nous pourrions peut-être, nous, lui servir à quelque chose, lança Matthew, abruptement.

The aspect of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their familiarity and simplicity.

The thought is the significant proposition

to be considered an important event in the philosophical world.

In the end, life can be seen to be inconsequential, in the way that nothing matters on some vast evolutionary scale. But everything matters, and we know the most when life seems most horrific, when at each instant of time, all the space around us is everything there is.

Il cervello è l'unica cosa che valga la pena di avere a questo mondo, non importa se si è corvi o uomini.

it does not matter if we are forgotten; what matters is the effect we have on those around us and those who come after us. What matters is how our own lives affect the larger, perpetual community of the living.