Quotes About Significance

I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as human beings are related to the body.

Manaus has got nothing in relation to Brazilian football history.

I'm trying to tell history with a capital H through histories with a small h. It moves people, because you know in your own personal relationships, your own story, there's an echo to a much larger reality.

I try to remember our relative insignificance on this planet and that these seemingly important things do not mean quite as much as we think they do.

It's really important for actors to feel that they're more than something for hire.

I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.

A lot of things in life only become historic in retrospect, but we knew that Live Aid was a historic day while it was happening. Two billion people around the world were watching it on television at the same time. It was a massive moment.

One of the great things about being an older person is that I am very aware of the scope of the work and the historical sense of it. It's bigger than me.

Sometimes there's these things in life that hit at the right time, and it connects with people in the right way.

The impact that you can leave on the other person through your films holds way more weight than just being seen at a party or any other appearance, or being seen at a freaking airport.

It takes a long time for me to just say 'I'm going to get a tat.' I really do my homework on it and make sure that it's perfect and the way I want it and make sure there's always meaning because I never get anything without meaning.

I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.

Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means.

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

Just an hour with you, and I understand why we had to meet.

Every human life is worth so much.

Por doquier la máscara, el disfraz, lo vestido, la verdad de lo desnudo. El verdadero sujeto de la repetición es la máscara. Porque la repetición difiere por naturaleza de la representación, lo repetido no puede ser representado, sino que debe ser siempre significado, enmascarado por lo que significa, enmascarando, a su vez, lo que significa.

People got such a charge from seeing their names in print. Proof of existence. I could picture a squabble of ghosts ripping through piles of newspapers. Pointing at a name on the page. See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.

Do you understand this is serious? I understand you think it's serious.

Essentially, the mercenary sets morality aside, or at best reorders the customary structures to fit the needs of his way of life. The great issues become how well he does his job, how faithfully he carries out his commission, how well he adheres to a standard demanding unswerving loyalties to his comrades. He dehumanizes the world outside the bounds of his outfit. Then anything he does, or witnesses, becomes of minor significance as long as its brunt is borne outside the Company

That's all your life is worth? Twenty bucks?

Don't underestimate the significance of this principle. Today in our media-fashioned world many good and talented leaders face the constant temptation to begin believing the text of their own publicity releases. And if they do, a messianic fantasy gradually infects their personalities and leadership styles. Forgetting who they are not, they begin to make dangerous assumptions about who they are.

Jesus was aware of where true importance lies, where the priorities are. And where your priorities are, there your time will be.

Public opinion exists in any nation, but in our democracy it has a special power. The Revolution in America transformed it and gave it its modern significance.