Quotes About Significance

I hated history in school. I couldn't understand why one has to learn, what someone did hundred years ago. Battles, speeches, forming a nation - was something that bored me.

I am only here on this earth for a short period of time, like the rest of the country and citizens, and I want the time that I spend here on earth to matter.

Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that.

Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.

Obviously I have made much more of an impact than Ospreay has in Ring Of Honor, but I've made more of a splash than Ospreay.

I don't think I've ever spoken to anyone who's told me that the story of 'Roots' isn't important.

I like to be spoken about only when I am doing meaningful work.

A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one's priorities.

Any marriage happy or unhappy is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance however passionate.

We're all worth it, man. We're all worth millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes.

Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does man need a meaning to life?

It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.

Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.

When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

Without the interpretation of the universe by man to the glory of God the whole world would be meaningless

Little things are great to little men.

If a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died, what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world?

One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.

A little man said to the Universe. "Sir! I exist." The Universe replied: "That's fine." Just don't think it creates any obligation on my part.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

I remembered something. There's a man. He is bald and wears a short sleeve shirt. And somehow, he is important to me... I think his name is... Homer.

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God

Without God man has no reference point to define himself.