Quotes About Significance

Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

One swallow alone does not make the summer.

The habit of looking into the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.

Every second is of infinite value.

There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.

I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.

The little things are infinitely the most important.

It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.

Some words are like the old Roman galleys; large-scaled and ponderous. They sit low in the water even when their cargo is light.

The game is not worth the candle.

It's the little things that count, so count the little things.

The days went by without incident and often without their name. When you'd unpacked the hours from the day and then the night and piled them all up, you could toss the boxes they came in, which is all that Wednesday or Friday really are.

Vreme mu?i i zamara samo one koji žive zauzeti jedino ništavnim brigama o svojoj li?nosti i svojim uživanjima, ali ono je kratko i neosetno onima koji, zaboravljaju?i sebe, rade na ma kakvom poslu koji ih prevazilazi; mereno veli?inom jednog smelog i neostvarljivog sna, ono gotovo i ne postoji.

Uzaludno i pogrešno je tražiti smisao u bezna?ajnim a prividno važnim doga?ajima koji se dešavaju oko nas, nego ga treba tražiti u onim naslagama koja stole?a stvaraju oko nekoliko glavnih legendi ?ove?anstva- legendi o prvom grehu, potopu, Prometeju, Sinu ?ove?ijem

Words have power. Names are power. Never give that shit away for free.

No one, she tought as the breath trembled through her lips, no one had ever looked at her as he did. In a way that told her she was the center

One might be a coincidence." Hands on her hips, she turned back. "Put them together it's a pattern.

That click between them had the potential, she knew, to reverberate through the rest of her life.

So that someone might want to put you in a book...So that you may be worth putting in a book...Live like a hero...Be a main character. Otherwise, what is life for?

All is allegory... Each creature is key to all other creatures.

Arroyo hace una pausa y lo mira con suma atención–. Ha ocurrido algo, Simón, y algo no es lo mismo que nada. Cuando sienta que la amargura lo invade, recuérdelo.

perché siamo qui? - Non so cosa dire. Siamo qui per lo stesso motivo per cui ci sono tutti gli altri. Abbiamo avuto la possibilità di vivere e l'abbiamo accettata. È una gran cosa vivere. La più grande di tutte.

Be a main character, otherwise what is life for?

John? As it was dark he whistled a what. You are such a male of worth, you know that. You really are.