Quotes About Significance

An exotic birthplace on its own is not informative of anything.

Every innings is important.

It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

Small does not mean insignificant.

Why would you spend your life and your time doing something that's insignificant?

All Americans deserve to see, speak to, and hear from our candidates. No county is insignificant, no community too small, and each person's vote is important.

Being insignificant statistically doesn't mean it's right or wrong. It just means you don't have enough data to show yes or no.

Bob Rondeau - he'll never know this - but he was so instrumental. He is a legend to me and had a major impact in my life.

For all we know, we are the only shot the universe has at intelligent self-organization. Therefore, we need to take it seriously.

I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important.

I meet hundreds of people, and I'm not going to remember them. But every single one of them will remember their interaction with me.

It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

What thou lovest well remains. The rest is dross.

La gran literatura no es más que el lenguaje cargado de sentido hasta el grado máximo que sea posible.

Rhythm must have meaning.

The bravest are usually those whom we do not know or hear about, those anonymous men who dig the trenches, who produce the food. They are the corpus--you understand that word--the body and also the soul of a nation. Eustaquio, my words are just words, but all through history--and you have studied it--it has always been the many faceless men, those foot soldiers, who have suffered most, who have died. It is they who make a nation." -The Cripple

Just want to be a footnote in someone else's happiness.

There are no little things. Little things are the hinges of the universe.

We know our way of thinking is considered antiquated, as dated as an Edsel. But to me, it has meaning.

La vida, finalmente, no es otra cosa más que una suma de minucias que, por circunstancias aleatorias, se convierten en hechos trascendentales.

Odiava i giorni monotoni che non le portavano nessuna emozione, che scorrevano per lei come per tutti gli altri. Ella si sentiva fatta in un modo diverso dal comune, si sentiva destinata a qualche cosa di alto e di grande. Chi aveva un cuore come il suo? Chi poteva comprenderla?