Quotes About Significance

Priority is a function of context.

But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

It's not necessarily how many minutes you're on screen, it's the material you have. It's more important what it is you have to do than the amount of time you're there.

Counting time is not as important as making time count.

God did not have time to make a nobody, so you're a somebody.

I try not to think about legacy because it is all ­folly. If you study history, even recent history, you'll find many people who were quite significant in their time but are completely forgotten.

Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.

It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.

History is like a clock, it tells you your time of day.

The primary reason we do too much is that we have never taken the time to discover that portion of what we do that makes the biggest difference.

There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.

We each have a finite number of heartbeats, a finite amount of time. But we have enough heartbeats and enough time to do what is important.

The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.

I regretted the time I wasted on things that did not matter with people that [do] matter.

You can remember the second and the third and the fourth time, but there's no time like the first. It's always there.

Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks.

Cleopatra breathed my air,' Katherine muttered. 'She's delirious!' Chip said. 'No, she's right,' Alex said. 'Haven't you heard that thing about how, at any given moment, at least one atom of the air in your lungs was probably once in Cleopatra's lungs? Or George Washington's or Albert Einstein's or Martin Luther King's, or whoever you want to pick from history?

He said kenders were small because we were meant to do small things. 'If you look at all the big things in the world closely,' he said, 'you'll see that they're really made up of small things all joined together.' That big dragon down there comes to nothing but tiny drops of blood, maybe. It's the small things that make the difference.

comes to nothing but tiny drops of blood, maybe. It's the small things that make the difference.

Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.

Standing now astride two cultures, Olive had unwittingly made history: she was the first known tattooed white female in the United States.

What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as well as the story. The voice as much as the words.

In a thousand years time this day will have existed for a thousand years to the day. And the ignorance of the whole world about what they've said today will have a date too.