Quotes About Significance

There are writers for whom names mean nothing; everybody could be called John and Elizabeth, and the writing would be just as good. A name, of course, is like a piece of clothing, isn't it? It gives you an impression right away.

Whether you're choosing for yourself or for a character - or for a child - names have baggage of their own.

I had a list of names I wanted to use. Ricochet happened to be one of them, but I really wanted a true name name, like Johnny Gargano, Adam Cole, John Cena.

Interest from Bayern or Man Utd? It is greatly flattering to hear those names, and I even ask myself if that is really about me.

The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.

Well, I think any national championship is an extremely important championship to play in.

I don't know my place in the bigger scheme of things, but I do know I'm here on this earth for a reason, and I never make the mistake of thinking that what I do is trivial. I trust in myself. I am important.

I don't like you in danger. When a man finds the only person of worth to him, that one person who matters more than anything and makes everything he's ever seen or done or gone through worthwhile, believe me, Rikki, the urge to protect her is overwhelming. If that bothers you, then I'm sorry, because it's going to be happening over and over throughout our years together.

Her soft voice nearly was the end of his strength. Just when he was certain there was no way he could love her more, she did something like that. She made him feel as if he was everything to her. He'd never been everything to anyone.

Lexi, He breathed her name. You have no idea what you mean to me. -Gavriil

He could hurry everything else in his life, but he was never going to make the mistake of hurrying his time with Grace. She was too important and everything else could take a backseat.

This woman mattered in some undefined way he didn't fully understand. He wanted to stay in her company. His body wanted her with every breath he drew. His leopard wanted to stay close to her.

For something to exist from the point of view of the world, extrinsically, it must be able to influence things and things must be able to influence it. That is what it means to have causal power. When something can't make a difference to anything in the world or be influenced by anything in the world, it is causally impotent. Whether or not it exists makes no difference to anything.

You just totally missed the metaphor. I could never love someone who missed the metaphor.

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

A point, like a joke, is a terrible thing to miss.

Even the constantly reiterated insistence that we are miserable offenders, born in sin, is a kind of inverted arrogance: such vanity, to presume that our moral conduct has some sort of cosmic significance, as though the Creator of the Universe wouldn't have better things to do than tot up our black marks and our brownie points.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try and conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday. I

isn't that theologians deliberately tell untruths. It's as though they just don't care about truth; aren't interested in truth; don't know what truth even means; demote truth to negligible status compared with other considerations, such as symbolic or mythic significance.

The value of the work we do is the value we give to it.

She set the course of his life with just a smile.

Even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.

Take comfort, then, that whatever you choose in life has importance beyond yourself. Importance, even, on a cosmic scale.

Perhaps it existed only to stand in contrast with the whole nature, as if to say, We were here. Alex wasn't sure if the thought was morbid or inspiring.