Quotes About Significance

Why should a word in a recipe be less important than a word in a novel? One can lead to physical indigestion, the other to mental. I

Nor should they be, but everyone needs to feel they're part of something worthwhile. That, in the last analysis, their life has some meaning in a larger context. The questions is what am I part of? What have I done?

But she would never forget Brodick... or the spontaneous kiss he'd given her that had meant nothing to him and everything to her.

You've given me value, Dun­can. In my heart I know I mat­ter to you.

The names of the list mean something. Every one. They mean something to me. Everyone means something to someone.

strung a small white stone with a hole in it. 'This is more precious

Compared to the you in my heart, the I in you is insignificant.

I can hardly believe that the face is so important to a man's existence. A man's worth should be gauged by the content of his work; possibly the convolutions of the surface of the brain have something to do with it, but his face certainly does not. If the loss of a face can cause conspicuous change in the scale of evaluation, it may well be owing to a fundamental emptiness of content.

How much significance could the roadway to others have when death was closer than one's companions?

Nici o ÅŸtire interesant?. Totul era un turn de iluzii, din c?r?mizi iluzorii ÅŸi g?unoase. Dac? viaÅ£a ar fi alc?tuit? numai din lucruri importante, ar fi ca o cas? periculoas? de sticl?, greu de manuit. Dar viaÅ£a de toate zilele era întocmai ca titlurile din ziare. Cunoscand lipsa de însemn?tate a existenÅ£ei, toat? lumea aÅŸaz? centrul compasului în propria-i cas?.

I can hardly believe that the face is so important to a man's existence. A man's worth should be gauged by the content of his work; possibly the convolutions of the surface of the brain have something to do with it, but his face certainly does not. If the loss of a face can cause conspicuous change in the scale of evaluation, it may well be owing to a fundamental emptiness of content.

For me, whatever you may say, you are the most important "other person." No, I do not mean it in a negative sense. I mean that the one who must first restore the roadway, the one whose name I had to write on the first letter, was first on my list of "others." (Under any circumstances, I simply did not want to lose you. To lose you would be symbolic of losing the world.)

Mythology was never designed to describe historically verifiable events that actually happened. It was an attempt to express their inner significance or to draw attention to realities that were too elusive to be discussed in a logically coherent way.

Ultimately, however, he held that a person's theology or beliefs, like the ritual he took part in, were unimportant. They could be interesting but not a matter of final significance. The only thing that counted was the good life;

Unless we find some significance in our lives, we mortal men and women fall very easily into despair.

Our neocortex has made us meaning-seeking creatures, acutely aware of the perplexity and tragedy of our predicament, and if we do not discover some ultimate significance in our lives, we fall easily into despair.

It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.

There are moments when history and memory seem like a mist, as if what really happened matters less than what should have happened.

When a portent repeats itself three times, like something out of Julius Caesar, even Caliban, a couple of plays over, is bound to notice.

Io non sono la più importante.» «Ma sei l'unica di cui m'importi.»

You are the reason I am alive. I would've never made it without you. Do you understand me? You are my heart. You are every ounce of blood in my body.

Ar m?lest?bu ir t?pat k? ar des?m: ir gan liesas c?kga?as ž?v?jumi, gan tradicion?l? Bolo?as desa. Visam ir sava vieta un noz?me.

But it is the actions of a moment that often have the most permanent of consequences.

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.