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Quotes About Significance

Somebody, somewhere Wants me and needs me And that's very wonderful to know.
~ Frank Loesser
Everybody wants to be somebody. Everybody wants to be noticed. Everybody wants to be somebody important. Importance is just treating people good. That's important.
~ Mike Tyson
Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
~ Nick Cave
My name means 'hope' in Spanish and it's a name I want to live up to.
~ Esperanza Spalding
If I could, I want to take a page from the George Clooney-like actors of the world. They do things that are relevant, things that don't necessarily have huge box office appeal, but they matter.
~ Alona Tal
I'm of an age when if I started to do eulogies, I'd be doing nothing else. You don't want to be remembered? I don't want them to be told to remember me.
~ Garrison Keillor
Just for once, I want someone to want me more than anybody else. To put me first.
~ Mariah Fredericks
Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
~ Alex Kapranos
It's the ignorant who find a cause and cling to it, for within that is the illusion of significance. Faith, a king, queen or Emperor, or vengeance…all the bastion of fools. The
~ Steven Erikson
We distort with deliberate purpose; we confine vast meaning into the strictures of imagined necessity. In this lies both failing and gift, for in the surrender of truth we fashion, rightly or wrongly, universal significance. Specific gives way to general; detail gives way to grandiose form, and in the telling we are exalted beyond our mundane selves.
~ Steven Erikson
Without a story there is no meaning. And the nature of the meaning depends on the nature of the story. To understand this is to understand the true power of stories. And so, to control the stories, to be the one doing the telling... Well now, wouldn't that be quite a thing...?
~ Steven Hall
and I'm thinking as our bodies meet that I'll remember this forever, and i just hope it's for all the right reasons.
~ Steven Herrick
For a twist to work, it needs to be (1) unexpected, (2) inevitable, (3) an escalation of what preceded it, and (4) a revelation that adds meaning to what has already occurred.
~ Steven James
God had created the universe as a way of sorting through the great library, finding those books that were most beautiful and meaningful.
~ Steven L. Peck
Driving around the West, I was like an illiterate man staring into a book; he doesn't understand what exactly he's seeing, but he damn sure knows it's important
~ Steven Rinella
The state is the emperor; the emperor is the state. The rest of us are like grains of sand on a beach: interchangeable, indistinguishable, inconsequential. A Roman citizen has no importance whatsoever, no matter how much some of us would like to pretend otherwise.
~ Steven Saylor
Ändå jämrade sig minnet och sade: Riv inte, det är mina hus. Ni får inte slakta Klara! Varför inte, frågade då förnuftet, och minnet svarade: Därför att det är i denna del av världen som du har upplevt de klarvaknaste och mest spännande timmarna i ditt liv. Därför att alla dessa Klaras hus varit kulisser åt dina drömmar, bakgrunder till dina vandringar, vittnen till dina konspirationer.
~ Stig Dagerman
All those days that came and went, little did I know that they were life.
~ Stig Johansson
All of those days that came and went - I didn't realize those were life.
~ Stig Johansson
The symbolism of what they had done meant nothing in this world, this life, unless we ourselves empowered it with meaning.
~ Storm Constantine
Finnigin, consider this essential truth: I am your life.
~ Storm Constantine
What significance could the mythical conflict of angels have to people who daily had to fight for their lives?
~ Storm Constantine
At last! She would see the face of Resenence Jeopardy. She would look into his eyes, and they would be open for her. Something momentous would happen, the reason for her journey, her commitment to the idea of an unknown man would be revealed to her.
~ Storm Constantine
You're important, Daniel, you're Shemyaza's vizier. They want you in their clutches, but they won't risk your death.
~ Storm Constantine