Quotes About Significance

His face was in my neck and he was breathing hard. Was he grieving me? Already? Would he miss me? Had I, in some tiny way, come to matter to this enigmatic, hard, brilliant, obsessed man? I realised he'd come to matter to me. Good or evil, right or wrong, he mattered to me...

She'd accepted his blade and stayed. She didn't ken the full significance of that. When a Druid offered his favored weapon, his Selvar, the one he wore against his skin, to a woman, he offered his protection. His guardianship. Forever. And she'd taken it.

My last name is Stone, though." "How foolish do you think I am?" he echoed the exact words she'd said to him about his name only hours ago. "Lisa Rock? That will not do. I can hardly present you to my men, should I decide to, as Lisa Stone. I may as well tell them you are Lisa Mud or Lisa Straw. Why would your people take the name of a stone?

You'll never be just anything. A tsunami can never be 'just' a wave.

It was one of those things—until you knew a person well, you didn't really use their name. Names had power. Names conveyed meaning.

Somethings you know right away to be final- when you lose your last baby tooth...Other times, you have to work out the milestone via subtraction, a math you do to assign significance, like when I figured out that I'd just blown through my last-ever wednesday with Mom on the day after she died.

Quando il sole della cultura è basso, anche i nani hanno l'aspetto di giganti.

Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.

Never can an authority admit that the intellectually courageous - those who dare to defy his authority - may be the most valuable type.

History has no meaning.

My name is Sahil," he says as he looks up. "Someone told me it means leader.

Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.

Is there so much hate for the ones we love? Tell me we both matter don't we?

Is there so much hate for the ones we love? Tell me, we both matter, don't we? You, it's you and me It's you and me, won't be unhappy

We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else shall be of any consequence.

It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter.

If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.

A real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named.

I think I would like to be a word - not a big important word, like "love" or "truth," just a small ordinary word, like "orange" or "inkstain" or "so," a word that people use so often and so unthinkingly that its specialness has all been worn away like the roughness on a pebble in a creekbed, but that has a solid heft when you pick it up, and if you hold it to the light at just the right angle you can glimpse the spark at its core.

One stupid quiz about one stupid thing that happened three hundred years ago to a bunch of people nobody cared about, that didn't have anything to do with real life.

What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether it be a copy of verses or a geometrical theorem, is to have done something utterly beyond the powers of the vast majority of men.

We may say, roughly, that a mathematical idea is 'significant' if it can be connected, in a natural and illuminating way, with a large complex of other mathematical ideas. Thus a serious mathematical theorem, a theorem which connects significant ideas, is likely to lead to important advances in mathematics itself and even in other sciences.

The harbinger of a revolution, the Altair was the first mass-marketed personal computer. For the first time a computer was dedicated not just to a single task but to one person. The old guard of computing entirely missed the significance of this.

The seriousness of a theorem, of course, does not lie in its consequences, which are merely the evidence for its seriousness.