Quotes About Significance

Two dots an inch apart, as small and tidy as punctuation marks at the end of a sentence none of us could read. The sentence would have started somewhere just above her heart.

You talk about her as if she is the Notre Dame Cathedral! She is. And the Statue of Liberty and Abbey Road and the best burrito of your life. Didn't you know?

Even a joke has some weight and takes up space, and when introduced into a vacuum, acquires its own gravity.

It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Alive, nobody matters much in the long run. But dead, some men matter more than others.

Bangala means something precious and dear. But the way he pronounces it, it means the poisonwood tree.

History is not good news or bad news, it's just one big story unreeling. There are no small parts, only small actors.

Anything in her mother's handwriting she saved. Willa wanted her also to go on weighing something in the world.

It was a long time ago." "I don't think something like that can ever be a long time ago. It's not how time works.

In the scope of the universe, and the arc of justice, my life is of little consequence.

We remember the past not only as it actually happened but also in light of what is important to us in our own lives. (8)

Whether you are a believer—fundamentalist, evangelical, moderate, liberal—or a nonbeliever, the Bible is the most significant book in the history of our civilization.

Whoever is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion

It was clear to me that this newly discovered Gospel of Judas could be one of two things. Its importance and the breadth of its appeal would depend entirely on which of these two things it was.

Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important

When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd.

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only which gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its goods.

One person's mission is another person's minutiae.

This is the true joy in life—that being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. That being a force of nature, instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

In fact, many mark 1989—the year we witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall—as the beginning of the Information Age, the birth of a new reality, a sea change of incredible significance… truly a new era.

Life is no brief candle to me. It's a sort of splendid torch which I've got to hold up for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

I'm busy—really busy. But sometimes I wonder if what I'm doing will make any difference in the long run. I'd really like to think there was meaning in my life, that somehow things were different because I was here.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. GOETHE

Service enables service. Hope came from the power and value of what was served, not from the one who served it.