Quotes About Significance

This is a paradox of man: compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God.

For me, content is paramount, and even if I'm to do a potboiler, the content should be excellent.

I value my family more than anything. That's always paramount.

I wanted to write history rather than participate in it.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future who may be extremely important for everybody, is going to have me behind them, and this is a responsibility, a huge one.

Work is personal in the same way that finding a friend or partner is personal.

Maybe I'm more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find them interesting to do.

I don't play long parts. They must be short parts, but they've got to be parts that mean something, that matter, where people will notice when I'm on the screen, and people will remember the character after they've seen the film.

There are no small parts; there are only small actors.

There are some people who do not need fifteen seconds on the Evening News to validate their existence.

Iconography, good iconography, strives to convey invisible reality in a visible form.

What is the Spanish word for wife? Esposa. What is the Spanish word for handcuffs? Esposas. That's not a coincidence.

A miracle is signaled by the fact that the entire landscape of our being is transformed and transfigured. For when a miracle takes place, everything changes in the life of the individual—not only the present and the future, but also the past. Let us consider one such miracle, the act of forgiveness. When one forgives nothing changes in the world; everything continues as normal as if nothing had happened. Yet, in another sense something of fundamental significance has taken place.

Mandamiento enfermizo 2: Lo que haces es más importante que lo que eres

We are also deeply loved. We are a treasure.

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.

Netfali's breath caught in his throat at the sight of the infinite colors and the gentle curve of the faraway horizon. He had never imagined the height of the white spray breaking against the rocks, the dark sand, or the air that whispered of fish and salt. He stood, captivated, feeling small and insignificant, and at the same time as if he belonged to something much grander.

Pensar sobre a roupa, sobre roupas, significa pensar sobre memória, mas também sobre poder e posse.

I'm insignificant?" Geoff said, standing up from his rock. "I don't matter?" ... You see, because most people have an influence on the course of history, we can't ask them to do this job becasue we'd be interfering with the past. You, however, are so insignificant, that even if I were to kill you on the spot, history would remain completely unchanged.

Los seres humanos no podrían soportar una vida carente de sentido.»

You might just decide that one life lived on your own recognizance is better than a million unremembered births.

Kendimi, kitaplar?n kahramanlar?ndan daha mühim buldu?um için, okumaktan s?k?l?yorum. Ist?rab?m?n hodgaml??? mani oluyor.

The permanent establishment of terrestrial life in space is as profound an event as the emergence of life itself.