Quotes About Significance

People forget how sensational the things are that they do. They don't see it on themselves. It blends into the background of their daily life.

me for years that democrats take a low view of themselves, and are brought up to believe they're insignificant. But turn that around and you come out with megalomania, and we've seen plenty of examples of that too.

To God he jotted several lines. How my mind has struggled to make coherent sense. I have not been too good at it. But have desired to do your unknowable will, taking it, and you, without symbols. Everything of intensest significance. Especially if divested of me.

shrunken passages of his body. And then the body, too – ah, God! – wastes away; and leaves its bones, and even the bones at last wear away and crumble to dust in that shallow place of deposit. And thus humanized, this planet in its galaxy of stars and worlds goes from void to void, infinitesimal, aching with its unrelated significance.

Die Wahrheit ist allezeit nur ein kurzes Siegesfest beschieden zwischen die beiden langen Zeiträumen, wo sie als paradox und als trivial gering geschätzt wird

The things that you think about the most will irrationally rise in importance in your mind.

History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly's wings that triggers a hurricane.

It wasn't just the British foreign secretary whose time was taken up dealing with such things, but the foreign ministers—and in many cases, the prime ministers and presidents and kings—of all the powers, and often over struggles even less significant than that which entangled Curt Prüfer. Amid this din of complaint and trivial offense, how to know what really mattered, how to identify the true crisis when it came along?

Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.

Wisdom tells me i'm nothing, love tells me I'm everything.

All things transitory But as symbols are sent.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exist for his sake.

der Mensch ist dem Menschen das Interessanteste und sollte ihn vielleicht ganz allein interessieren. Alles andere, was uns umgibt, ist entweder nur Element, in dem wir leben, oder Werkzeug, dessen wir uns bedienen. Je mehr wir uns dabei aufhalten, je mehr wir daraf merken und teil daran nehmen, desto schwaecher wird das Gefuehl unsers eignen Wertes und das Gefuehl der Gesellschaft.

Tanya didn't know how important her answer was to him

You don't like the way the study of an expensive drug for blood pressure is going? A nonissue - just stop the study before the results reach statistical significance.

Yesterday, the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America, and a greater perhaps never was nor will be decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, "that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States."

The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe.

If time is a line, it is a special one.

Pain only matters when it happens to someone important.

Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or story, and find his words so valuable after all that when he confessed his apprehensions she would explain why they were in fact the very things that made him precious to her ... and to Western Civilization! There was no such girl, the simple truth being.

The tombstone of coinage, arguably the most important measure in history, could read: Born Lydia, Anatolia, 7th century B.C. Died Washington, D.C., 20th century A.D.

Accept the unknown. There are no secondary characters. Each one is silhouetted against the sky. All have the same stature. Within a given story some simply occupy more space.

Truths are not constantly evident in the circumstances to which they refer. They are born - sometimes late. This truth was born with the struggles and wars of national libration. In the light of the newborn truth, the significance of imperialism changed. Its demands were seen to be different. Previously it had demanded cheap raw materials, exploited labour and a controlled world market. Today it demands a mankind that counts for nothing.

A]nimals are always the observed. The fact that they can observe us has lost all significance. They are the objects of our ever-extending knowledge. What we know about them is an index of our power, and thus an index of what separates us from them. The more we know, the further away they are.