Quotes About Significance

A beautiful stone is only a beautiful stone. It doesn't lead you anywhere. It doesn't mean anything, it has no form or significance until is has its setting. And the setting has to have a beautiful jewel to be worthy of it.

Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who never will be important, because he'll always be less than a man.

I shall, I think, remember that 11th of September all my life.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human. Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who never will be important, because he'll always be less of a man.

It's certainly not a matter of life or death," agreed Mrs. Otterbourne. But there she was quite wrong—for a matter of life and death was exactly what it was.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made silently.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

No trumpets sounds when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

A Life without meaning is equal to Death. It's like lying in your grave except that you still have Breath.

This is the wonder of names. Like the press of a footprint in the snow: proof that someone has been there.

This is why we have to stay awake, be vigilant: we need to believe that we, like the museum objects around us, bear time with equal complexity, that eventually we might discover who we have been, what purpose we serve and what use we might one day be.

To be so important is to be very useful

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

It was one of those imponderables of existence that months, even years, can go by without anything significant happening, and then suddenly a cluster of hours comes along or even minutes, that can blow a hole in time a mile wide

Tails often say a lot more than mere words.

She named him after the Dog Star, the brightest star in the night sky.

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.

It was, Sylveste knew, simply the understandable attempt of a culture to raise a mirror to itself. What made it significant was the complete extent to which it had permeated their culture

our deeds have no higher meaning than the context of the moment in which they occur.

It is necessary for him who would endure existence with patience that he should conceive himself to be something - that he should be persuaded he is not a cipher in the muster-roll of man.

There's a lot of places where the image of a cube as a thing of power is pertinent. I don't know why that is. I don't have any mythic explanation for it, but it seems to work for people.

There's no Peter York Foundation, and you're no one without one.

It's not that I was not getting offers but I don't want to do petty and insignificant roles again and again.