Quotes About Significance

With a few people one's life, too much happens emotionally-more than even makes sense to happen, given how little has actually occurred. Such people are deeply igniting in a way that others are not. This igniting always happens in the very first instant and never goes away. No stupidities can destroy the igniting, so even if those two people never meet again, a connection always remains.

We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over the passage of time, but that's the implacable judgment of feeling.

However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.

Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

And some day well remember so much that well build the biggest goddam steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up.

Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him, and the scope of his existence stretches beyond the stars.

The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter.

Only eternal values can give meaning to temporal ones. Time must be the servant of eternity.

Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning.

Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary.

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.

What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead?

Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.

What do you want a clock for?" "To find out what time it is," I said. "I think that's the usual purpose.

Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even more truly than some of the things close to him.

There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.

I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.

I believe truly that Canada is a living history and we're going through some of the most important time in this country's short 150 years.

Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.

In the time of gods and monsters, what is the worth of a man?

Not the intense momentIsolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.

The time we are living in is a significant time

The time we are living in is a crucial time in the mind of God

Nine hundred years of time and space, and I've never met anyone who wasn't important.