Quotes About Significance

Truth is what's important in the world. But is what's important always the truth?

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

It's not the length of time we knew someone that makes them so special. It's what they brought into our lives.

Paranoia is a very comforting state of mind. If you think they're out to get you, it means you think you matter.

We always say listen to the heart, or the mind or even our gut, but there is something magical about listening to when the hairs on our hands stand up.

I said: 'Go with my blessing if you go Always remembering what we did. To me You have meant everything, as you well know.

Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten," which he

Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten,

There are no coincidences. Only

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

maybe you are only a drop in a bucket—or a teaspoon in a desert—but there are some fragile plants that will die if your teaspoon goes away.

Such a night cannot be shaken from a woman's memory. Such a night changes your life forever.

Less than the cloud to the wind, Less than the foam to the sea, Less than the rose to the storm Am I to thee. More than the star to the night, More than the rain to the tree, More than heaven to earth Art thou to me.

No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.

Life is short, even for those who live a long time, and we must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd, lively or sad, loyal or corrupt, from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions, either pleasant or unpleasant, which leave no trace behind them.

I wanted to matter. For my life to matter. So many people die and no one knows they ever existed. They're ripples in a stream, disappearing when the wind blows.

Important moments like this are time to reflect. To remind us, sometimes, that it's not only important what you wear, but it's also important to be aware.

Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.

A time will come when you're going to be numerous but your impact in the world will be like nothing

Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.

How long a time lies in one little word?

I'd much rather go out having America shocked than having America go, 'Eh, it was his time.'

God knows what happens to your time once you have begun to get old. You are busy all the time, you do important things, you work, and yet when you sum it all up the result is nothing.