Quotes About Significance

We name something to make it real, to give it meaning.

Choose what's important to you, Macy. Not for the moment, but for eternity.

What something is worth isn't always tied to money.

But those were only the headlines. The more important stories lay deep inside... p 292

You Have a Gift, and It Is Immensely Valuable

If you've found someone who loves you – that's the most important thing of all. If you've got that, then you should appreciate every damn second with them.

No, Miss,' he said. 'I told you. It's not her name. It's her number. It's mummy's special number.

The jacaranda, for instance, is beautiful but not serious.

As I indicated, I do not believe that any chair, however elegant, contributes significantly to life or solves problems that can be considered major by anyone who is not minor.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there; but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

The Constitution of India recognizes twenty-two languages as 'official'. The most important of these is Hindi, which in one form or another is spoken by upwards of 400 million people.

The meaning of a thing is the impact it has on the world around it, she thought. The meaning of a life is the impact that life has on the world.

You're just a small piece. Death doesn't matter. The whole lives on.

The President is an elected king, but the fact that he is elected has proved to be of far less significance in the course of political evolution than the fact that he is pragmatically a king.... Kings have often been selected this way in European history, and the Roman Emperor was regularly chosen by election.

Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.

bila kau melakukan sesuatu yang buruk, tetapi sudah tidak ada lagi yang mau memberitahukannya kepadamu, berarti kamu sudah diabaikan dan tidak berarti

SOMETIMES BEING TOO CLOSE TO THE GOALS WE SEEK IN LIFE CAUSES US TO HAVE LESS A DESIRE TO ENJOY THE TRUE IMPORTANCE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF LIFE ITSELF. eg. MOST PEOPLE LIVING CLOSE TO THE NIAGARA FALLS SEEM TO VISIT IT LESS, BUT WILL QUICKLY CARRY SOME VISITOR TO SEE IT.

Time can be measurable but its value can not be measurable

Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.

This historic year of 1976 will see McDonald's Corporation surpass one billion dollars in total revenue for the first time. Casual students of business history may not realize the significance of the fact that this milestone will be reached during the twenty-second year of the company's history.