Quotes About Significance

Choosing a name for a band is always a difficult thing, and I don't think people should read too much into a name because, after all, it's just a handle. It doesn't mean anything.

I don't want to play father roles. And I use father roles figuratively for roles that are just hanging around... don't want to be a piece of furniture in films.

Little things, when we're caught up and fretting about them, often appear to be big and meaningful and world-changing in the moment they are happening.

Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.

Henry Cejudo actually saved the flyweights. Like, an entire division. I feel like this should be a bigger deal.

To spend time with Ed Harris... he's an acting hero of mine, so that's a big deal for me.

On OTT, it's not about her or heroine, every single character is powerful and a hero, heroine in their own space.

I would want to wear No. 20, just because a lot of history behind that number through high school and college.

I've been thinking about it a great deal, and it seems to me that although one sixpence is as good as another sixpence, not twenty lambs would do instead of one sheep whose face you knew. Somehow, when once you've looked into anybody's eyes, right deep down into them, I mean, nobody will do for that one anymore. Nobody, ever so beautiful or so good, will make up for that one going out of sight.

Suppose you didn't know him, would that make any difference?' 'No,' said Willie, after thinking a little. 'Other people would know him if I didn't.' 'Yes, and if nobody knew him, God would know him, and anybody God has thought worth making, it's an honor to do anything for.

Everything, dreaming and all, has got a soul in it, or else it's worth nothing, and we don't care a bit about it. Some of our thoughts are worth nothing, because they've got no soul in them.

The true name is one which expresses the character, the nature, the being, the meaning, of the person who bears it. It is the man's own symbol,--his soul's picture, in a word,--the sign which belongs to him and to no one else. Who can give a man this, his own name? God alone. For no one but God sees what the man is, or even, seeing what he is, could express in a name-word the sum and harmony of what he sees.

A gathered mountain of misplaced worships would be swept into the sea by the study of one good book; and while what was good in an inferior book would still be admired, the relative position of the book would be altered and its influence lessened

Love is as rare as a star. I thought the stars were anything but rare, uncle. That's because you never went out to find one for yourself, Katey. They would prove a few miles apart. But it would be big enough when I did find it. Right, my dear. That is the way with love.

A name is one of those things one can give away and keep all the same.

And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?

In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people – the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.

To mark the paper was the decisive act.

It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

Though it is unreal it is not meaningless

And yet to the people of only two generations ago, this would not have seemed all-important, because they were not attempting to alter history.

Don't think that I did nothing else. It's only that when you look back over a long period of time, certain things seem to swell up till they overshadow everything else.

Quan tr?ng là quan h? gi?a các cá nhân vá»›i nhau và má»™t cá»­ ch? hoàn toàn b?t lá»±c, má»™t cái n?m tay, má»™t gi?t nÆ°á»›c m?t, má»™t l?i Ä'á»™ng viên vá»›i ng??i h?p h?i ??u là Ä'áng quí, tá»± thân chúng Ä'ã là giá tr?.

Why should the fruit be held inferior to the flower?