Quotes About Significance

I think of Bret Hart as somebody who held the Intercontinental championship like it was the World Heavyweight championship. Every title match he was in felt important, like it was the most important thing on the show. The way he carried himself and the matches he had, it was just everything I thought a champion should be.

The impact we have on people's lives, to me, is more important than any title anyone can carry.

My life is worth more than a title.

Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.

When Terry Funk, Harley Race had world titles, it meant more.

Personally, I don't believe in International Women's Day. After all, there's no International Men's Day that we celebrate. These are just titles like Happy Day, Teacher's Day etc. I don't understand them.

My birthday, I don't really see it as a special day, to be honest. It's just another day for me.

To be honest, I don't have much to do in 'Hathyar.' I won't call it a pivotal role.

The rankings - they don't mean crap, to be honest.

Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.

Wars, plagues, names upon tombs tell us only what happened. But history lies in the cracks in between. In the inexplicable, invisible turns and decisions. A person saying no instead of yes. …It is not that they had lived…but how.

The things that remain matter. Because of them, I can render a plausible life.

Just breathing in and out suddenly seemed to require a series of massive, separately considered decisions, as if each small action of mine had abruptly become huge compared to all the ones the dead man was not taking.

It is its absence which defines the importance of a thing.

My story? How can that be relevant? There's not much to tell." "Every person has a story. And every story is important.

Does the first time matter that much?

Details aren't automatically interesting.

Ivo sat and listened, the look in his blue eyes enrapt and I knew, though I could hardly believe it, that he was not bored or uninterested, that to him I mattered as I had never mattered to anyone in my life.

He needed to feel important, needed to have power. All wizards were like that to some extent, but in few of them was it the parched craving that it was in Thaddeus.

You don't always have to change the whole world," Paige murmured, "just a small part of it, and sometimes those changes are small but it doesn't make them less important. Without the cog, the wheel wouldn't move.

Our responses to events are far more significant than the events themselves

Is this all we've got now? No priests to say yes son, your suffering meant something, no kings on the battlefield to say yes soldier, your suffering meant something.

stayed. I feel like life happens to other people, and I drift in and out of their lives without ever making any kind of impact. I want to matter to someone.