Quotes About Significance

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work — that goes on, it adds up.

Sometimes the trail you leave behind you is more important than the path ahead of you.

Not that the making of tea can ever really be regarded as a petty or trivial matter and Miss Clovis did seem to have been seriously at fault.

Every time you worry that you could get trapped in some kind of work you don't care about, you're dealing with the problem of meaningfulness. I guarantee that in the back of your mind is the thought that somehow you have to make a contribution to something, be acknowledged, do something that matters--or you're just fooling around.

Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.

A life without cause is a life without effect.

Myth deprives the object of which it speaks of all history. In it, history evaporates.

I think that the results which each man arrives at in his attempts to harmonise his science with his Christianity ought not to be regarded as having any significance except to the man himself, and to him only for a time, and should not receive the stamp of a society. For it is in the nature of science, especially those branches of science which are spreading into unknown regions, to be continually changing e.

There is no more hope for meaning. And without a doubt this is a good thing: meaning is mortal.

Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history.

It is important that we realize that words have meanings far beyond the dictionary definition.

When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?

We have the wrong impression of life. We think the very big incidents of our lives are consequences of huge dilemmas or major decisions. If we paid attention, we'd realize that the determining incidents in our lives are ordinary things.

To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal.

I don't think at that time I realized how important it was and how important it was for me to be here and carry on that legacy in our family of being a photographer.

Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died.

Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at the galaxy's edge... there is all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. No thing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all.

People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other.

The worth of a prize depends on the people who have received it before you.

Canada has, entrenched in our Constitution, a world-leading recognition of Indigenous rights.

Not only can you not plan the impact you're going to have, you often won't recognize it even while you're having it.

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.

You have this special connection with someone if you're their first record or their first concert or their first poster or whatever it is.

Records... a record just shouldn't be that important.