Quotes About Significance

The coming week in The Hague may prove to be one of the most important in the three-and-a-half-billion year history of life on earth.

There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait.

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes.

Nothing in my life is a coincidence.

To let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life.

There was at time in my life where all I wanted was a relationship, and I thought that was the most important thing.

It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.

Every moment of life mattered. Even the perfect snowflake that alighted on his palm and melted in seconds.

I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre.

She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little.

Unlike life, when books become meaningless, they are making a point.

We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ.

A work of infinite moment depends on a moment of time.

addresses the ramifications

I pluck every day from my sweater or chair, red hairs...strands of significance, traces of you in my life ...

The book of the hours - Tres Riche Heures - what did it matter when I had you?...

We all matter - maybe less then a lot but always more than none.

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.

sometimes it seems as if the universe wants to be noticed!!!

all history in some ways wishes to say something about its own present time.

The text of 14:3–5 has played an important role in the larger chronological discussions. For example, Rashi argued that Pharaoh was prompted to pursue the Israelites because of their failure to return after three days (cf. 5:3). If this is the case, Rashi continued, "on the fifth and sixth day they pursued them . . . and, thus, this was the seventh day of Passover.

Be silent" (Matt. 20:31; Mark 10:48; Luke 18:39). It is likely that the crowd was aware that Jesus was going to Jerusalem to present himself as king, and they did not want to be delayed by something as seemingly insignificant as a blind man. But Jesus again indicated by his attention that his kingdom is made up of such people.