Quotes About Significance

The history of the Universe must be a mass of such disconnected threads, and no one could say which were important and which were trivial.

All that we do know is this: you, Alvin, alone of the human race, have never lived before. In literal truth, you are the first child to be born on Earth for at least ten million years.

The Eagle had stopped talking for a moment. When Nicole looked at the alien again, his mesmerizing eyes seemed to be expressing an emotion. "Besides, you are special to us. You have played a key role in this endeavor.

In the future all history will be noted as BC, before contact, and AC, after contact. For from that first moment when we knew unambiguously that simple chemicals had risen to consciousness and intelligence somewhere else in the vastness of our universe, the past history of our species became only an isolated paradigm, one small and relatively insignificant fragment in the infinite tapestry that depicts the astonishing variety of sentient life.

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

The absence of the latter means nothing, though its presence may mean everything

the little things are infinitely the most important.

Sometimes I think that it is only the monstrous conceit of mankind which makes him think that all this stage was erected for him to strut upon.

Ningún hombre carga su mente con asuntos pequeños, salvo que tenga algún buen motivo para hacerlo.

These relics have a history then?' 'So much so that they are history.

To a great mind, nothing is little," remarked Holmes, sententiously.

They are important, you understand, without being interesting.

Important describes what I have to do by April 14. Important describes my license renewed, my bills paid, payroll... Abby. You're not important. You're everything.

That he had loved [her] more, and far more, than he had cared for anyone else gave her stature[.]

Now I want to say something about words artificially weighted; you can, and frequently must, make a word carry several meanings or messages in your story if you use the word right. This is a kind of shorthand.

Tell me something that only I will ever know, was perhaps what she wanted to ask him, or, What will you give me to remember you by? - or, even, Nothing of the least importance has ever belonged to me; can you help?

Some lives, ending as Miss Fielding's would, leave a grain of memory, like a grain of sand, in the depths of another mind, a grain of sand which is like the constant irritation under an oyster's shell, eventually to grow with coating after coating of disguising beauty into a pearl. Sometime this memory would be pried loose, in its rounded beauty, to stand by itself as an object of delight.

our human language is full of indications of how much dogs mean to us.somebody who is not favored to win is anunderdog a book that's well worn is dog-eared and why is a bitch the most humiliating thing you can call a woman?

A button! What's a button, eh? To a bachelor, my dear friend, a button is an important thing. An entire world.

Meh onu umeh khayeynu—what do folks like us count? Moshul kekheres hanishbor—we're just so much scrap in their eyes. Except that real scrap isn't thrown away so easily …

If you had to remind someone you loved that it was your birthday, then it was futile.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.