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Quotes About Significance

L'importante non sono le cose, ma il senso che noi diamo alle cose. Prima o poi la morte attende tutti. Più importante del rimandare la morte è darle un senso.
~ Silvana de Mari
Las preguntas más importantes que debemos hacernos a la hora de elegir y valorar un tipo son: ¿se ajusta a la función que se le ha asignado? ¿Transmite el mensaje? Y ¿añade belleza a este mundo?
~ Simon Garfield
Too many people live the lives other people think they ought to, following orders they don't agree with, for causes they don't believe in. They live lives that don't matter, that touch no one and change nothing. For better or worse, you and I stared evil in the eye and didn't flinch. We raised our swords and went to war, and even if we didn't win we kicked some ass along the way. We made a difference, and that's all any man can ask.
~ Simon R. Green
Asked what he thought was the significance of the French Revolution, the Chinese Premier Zhou En-lai is reported to have answered, "It's too soon to tell.
~ Simon Schama
Sex fills a few hours of our lives yet those precious minutes count for more than months and years
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
Coincidences mean you're on the right path.
~ Simon Van Booy
When it rains, even the most insignificant puddle is a map of the universe.
~ Simon Van Booy
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Some things aren't measured by their size, but by their importance.
~ Simone Elkeles
You think a moment is but a small speck, by it encapsulates an entire world.
~ Sinan Antoon
Life has proved bitter and deceptive to Philip because of the artist in him, because he has kept seeking a beauty and significance that isn't life's to give; but Steve is a shrewd little realist, who, given opportunity to meet life on its own terms, ought to make a fair success of it.
~ Sinclair Ross
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy - invincible determination--a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.
~ Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton
They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.
~ Sirhan Sirhan
a sense that even if every scrap of a life were saved, thrown into a giant mound and then carefully sifted to extract all possible meaning, it would not add up to a life.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Om jag inte kände det jag känner när jag ser dig skulle du vara någon annan. Det vore hemskt. Om jag inte mindes att jag älskar dig, menar jag. (190)
~ Siri Hustvedt
I wonder now whether it isn't dangerous to assign significance to that which is essentially vacant, but we can't seem to avoid it. We cover up the holes with our speech, explaining away the emptiness until we forget it is there.
~ Siri Hustvedt
In the arts feeling is always meaning.
~ Siri Hustvedt
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
~ Marcel Proust
Love is the reflection of God's unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation.
~ Meher Baba
You're not one to take lightly, to love of for an evening and leave of a dawn.
~ Janet Morris
You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever.
~ Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesnt begin at all.
~ Haruki Murakami