Quotes About Significance

Pirates owner and real estate baron John Galbreath owned a horse named Roberto as well as a ballplayer of the same name, and the two meant about the same thing to him.)

Redhead All over the house Strands of copper hair Like filaments from a cobweb Collect. If you and I Were ever to part— For months, perhaps years, I'd be combing out, Brushing or picking up Strands of significance, Traces of you In my life

No one who is anyone anymore.

If you see one dead body, it's awful and compelling and hard to tear one's eyes away. If you see a hundred they start to mean nothing.

Recuerda lo que valga la pena recordar. Ignora el resto.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person "the world today" or "life" or "reality" he will assume that you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever.

To give your life is one thing; to do it for a gesture is another; but to do it for a gesture you know is meaningless is a desolate trick of fate.

PETER: But you're 'Alice'. ALICE: As you're 'Peter'... But after all, what's in a name? PETER: What isn't? She understands.

Everyone likes everything nowadays. They like the television and the phonograph and the shampoo and the soda pop and the Cracker Jack. Everything becomes everything else and it's all nice and pretty and LIKABLE. Everything is fun in the sun! Where's the discernment? Where's the arbitration that separates what I LIKE from what I RESPECT, what I deem WORTHY, what has... listen to me now... SIGNIFICANCE.

It's almost impossible to overestimate the unimportance of most things.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.

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

I wrote it because we wanted to believe that our lives had some meaning. We wanted to know that we hadn't passed through the world unchanged, and that we hadn't left the world unchanged. We didn't want to come and go from this planet without leaving a mark.

A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.

How dare you say it's nothing to me? Baby, you're the only light I ever saw.

A few times I saw a chicken walking around importantly, like some kind of a regional manager.

The moment their eyes meet, the moment their hands touch. That certainty. That recognition. You. You are the one. This is what it feels like. Nothing, as it turns out, can take the place of love.

What was it about life now? The people who weren't present always seemed to be more important than the people who were.

What was it about life now? The people who weren't present always seemed to be more important than the people who were.

We want to leave a legacy with who we are and what we do. We want to grow a life that matters. We can. When we eat a diet of fruit and serve up that diet to those around us, we can grow a life that matters.

Man, the two-fold creature, apprehends The two-fold manner, in and outwardly, And nothing in the world comes single to him. A mere itself, cup, column, or candlestick, All patterns of what shall be in the Mount; The whole temporal show related royally, And build up to eterne significance Through the open arms of God.

What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

I have the feeling," she said when the other two turned, "that this is supposed to be a historic meeting. Fraught with significance. The sort of things bards might sing of, if there were bard anymore." "And it feels a little anticlimatic?" "Yes.