Quotes About Significance

No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.

Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.

Psychology of small things rules.

It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.

Tu étais pour moi - comment dirai-je? toute comparaison serait trop faible - tu étais précisément tout pour moi, toute ma vie. Rien n'existait que dans la mesure où cela se rapportait à toi; rien dans mon existence n'avait de sens que si cela me rapprochait de toi. Tu métamorphosais ma façon de vivre.

Tales momentos dramáticamente concentrados, tales momentos preñados de fatalidad, en los que una decisión destinada a persistir a lo largo de los tiempos se comprime en una única fecha, en una única hora y a menudo en un solo minuto, son raros tanto en la vida del individuo como en el curso de la Historia.

Maar alles wat niet te maken heeft met de problemen van de huidige tijd, blijft beneden onze strenge maatstaf voor wat wezenlijk is.

Desde aquella noche en la que el hombre que yo más veneraba me abrió su destino como se abre una dura concha, desde aquella noche de hace cuarenta años, me parece infantil e insignificante todo lo que nuestros narradores y poetas cuentan en los libros como extraordinario y todo lo que en los teatros se disfraza de tragedia.

Du warst mir- wie soll ich es Dir sagen? jeder einzelne Vergleich ist zu gering- Du warst eben alles, mein ganzes Leben.

Alles existierte nur insofern, als es Bezug hatte auf Dich, alles in meiner Existenz hatte nur Sinn, wenn es mit Dir verbunden war.

I giorni solenni dell'esistenza hanno in sé una luminosità più intensa di quelli consueti.

A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing.

The crucial question is not: am I with Someone, but rather, am I Someone?

The sense of loss was deeply familiar - a sudden hole, the universe altered, a recognition of the end of something meaningful and important. How often does one get the chance to be this close to a wild being?

The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself.

The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.

Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth.

Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

In truth, we're all just pottering, filling the time that we have here, only we like to make ourselves feel bigger by compiling lists of importance.

I just live in the truth and think that every moment counts.

Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them, what were we?

The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them.

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.

The truth is, I'm a character guy. That's how I see myself. I always see the role as being far more interesting and important than I am... not all actors approach it that way.