Quotes About Significance

The big moments for me are moments when I can actually contribute.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

A monument's dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated.

What I keep searching for in movies, more and more, is the right gravity.

I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.

Mortality is very brief but immeasurably important.

When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.

Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.

We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.

Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.

I worry about getting work, and then when I get it, I worry about doing it well. I don't want to just go through the motions and give people stuff. This stuff is really important to me.

Every moment is the fruit of forty thousand years.

Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years.

I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things.

the most splendid of sepulchres – not the sepulchre in which their bodies are laid, but where their glory remains eternal in men's minds, always there on the right occasion to stir others to speech or to action. For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial: it is not only the inscriptions on their graves in their own country that mark them out; no, in foreign lands also, not in any visible form but in people's hearts, their memory abides and grows.

would be a great war and more worthy of relation than any that had preceded it.

Indeed this was the greatest movement yet known in history

Just knowing you exist changed the world for me.

It was his wedding day, and then it was any day; it was nothing, and then it was forever.

Until the sixteenth century, men—priests, academics, judges, merchants, princes, and many others—wore skirts, or robes. For men, the skirt was a 'sign of leisure and a symbol of dignity,' writes Quentin Bell. This is still true for men in high positions. After all, can you imagine the Pope, or Professor Dumbledore, wearing trousers? Have you ever seen a depiction of God wearing pants?

It was in God's grace that Paul figured out how to feel secure, significant, and strong. His personal weaknesses and points of vulnerability weren't removed, but he had the necessary grace to face them and accept them.

Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.

They were signed Love, Martha, but Lieutenant Cross understood that Love was only a way of signing and did not mean what he sometimes pretended it meant. At

Large effects might come from small causes.