Quotes About Significance

I would have to think about it for two or three months before I decided to do something which would have meaning. And it would have to be more than just an impression or pleasure. I would need an objective, a meaning. That is the only thing that could help me.

The significance of the crucifixion is not only what God does for us; consistently throughout the New Testament the crucifixion is portrayed as the pattern that we are to follow. It is a model of social behavior toward the other as well as a statement about what God has done for us.

I think greatness is found within mundanity, those boring little ticks throughout the day.

'Lonesome Dove' by Larry McMurtry and 'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver have stuck with me throughout my life, and I think that says a lot about an author's writing.

If you throw money around like confetti, it just becomes shallow and meaningless.

Cricket cannot afford to throw up meaningless games before its benefactors, which is what spectators and television audiences are.

You only get one chance to make the first impression. And I made the biggest first impression ever by throwing the Big Show over the top rope.

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

The scientific content of Genesis 1-11 holds special significance for me because it revolutionized my thinking and, thus, changed my life's direction. Until I reached my late teens, my singular passion was science, astronomy in particular. My life's purpose was to learn more about the universe; nothing beyond that really interested me.

The sentimentalist in me loves it when the important things we say and do can be tied to buildings and landscape.

There are long periods when life seems a small dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence." The

From the moment we take our first breaths, our days are numbered, so how we live matters. The decisions we make—the important ones and, yes, the mundane ones too—they all matter. Everyday decisions add up to form the life we live and the legacy we leave behind.

In a culture that often views a child in terms of the expense in time and money he will cost in his lifetime, how important it is to intentionally recognize the infinite value of a tiny human being, created with the very imprint and image of God on his life, and to understand that this little one's life will have consequences for eternity.

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

If one word can mean so many things at the same time then I don't see why I can't.

We're not beginning...to...to...mean something? Mean something? You and I mean something?

In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

It's only when all one knows of life is abstracted and used as an underlining statement of significant patterning that you have what is both beautiful and permanent.

Jo, you're you. And that's as important as you want to make it.

We are the ink in which are written other messages that we cannot even understand.