Quotes About Significance

Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?

When I finish contributing, I feel like I've left enough to where people are gonna say, 'They got that from Too $hort.' I'm not gonna fade away.

It's not always about playing the lead. It's also about being associated with an important and good film.

It's just a good thing to be a part of history and a lot of people will not be able to say that.

As an actor, you think to yourself, 'I want to do good work,' but you also want the work that you do to make an impact in some way.

Listen to your life. All moments are key moments.

The Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them of that birth just as the people who love us are not really interested primarily in the facts of our births but in what it meant to them when we were born and how for them the world was never the same again, how their whole lives were changed with new significance.

The real turning point in human history is less apt to be the day the wheel is invented or Rome falls than the day a boy is born to a couple of hick Jews.

The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.

The greatest events- they are not noisiest but our stillest hours. The world revolves, not around the inventors of new noises, but around the inventors of new values; it revolves inaudibly.

thou great star! what would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou shinest!

Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerable many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us.

You great star, what would your happiness be had you not those for whom you shine?

Valuing is creating: hear it, you creators! Valuing itself is the treasure and jewel of all valued things.

Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us. Love, springtime, every beautiful melody, mountains, the moon, the sea – all these speak completely to the heart but once, if in fact they ever do get a chance to speak completely. For many men do not have those moments at all, and are themselves intervals and intermissions in the symphony of real life.

And finally, to call to mind the enormous influence which German philosophy--I hope you understand its right to inverted commas-

Valuating is itself the value and jewel of all valued things.

It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

She existed in the Divine Mind as an Eternal Thought before there were any mothers. She is the Mother of mothers—she is the world's first love.

You are infinitely precious because you are loved by God.

The question: 'is the Euclidean geometry true?' has no significance for Poincaré, for these is no such thing as one geometry being more true than another.

Thus He did at a marriage feast what He would not do in a desert; He worked in the full gaze of men what He had refused to do before Satan. Satan asked Him to turn stones into bread in order that He might become an economic Messias; His mother asked Him to change water into wine that He might become a Savior.

She had that rare virtue of never existing completely except for that opportune moment

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