Quotes About Significance

Each of you is a daughter of God. Reflect on all the wondrous meaning of that one paramount fact.

Time waits for no country these days, however, not even one as important, or unimportant, as China. Nero fiddled, Jiang theorizes.

Art doesn't have to matter to a lot of people to matter a lot.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respects, whether he chooses to be so or not.

When some men die it is as if you had lost your pen-knife, and were subject to perpetual inconvenience until you could get another. Other men's going is like the vanishing of a great mountain from the landscape, and the outlook of life is changed forever.

History is but a collection of epitaphs.

No volume of history is insignificant, even the worst chapters. Especially the worst chapters.

Then, Sir, you would reduce all history to no better than an almanack, a mere chronological series of remarkable events.

Perhaps we are yet too near the great events of which this act formed so conspicuous a part, to understand its deep significance and to foresee its far-off consequences. The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves, especially when they read it by the fierce and dusky light of war, or amid the deeper shadows of those sorrows which war brings to both.

History is a tattoo of a moment in time.

The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances.

Man has always seen himself the peak of creation. The part of the universe that thinks. The purpose for it all. It's no doubt a gratifying view, but the universe may have a different opinion.

Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?

I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.

he's only got to look at me to see he comes first. First and last and all the stages in between. I

I felt tears pricking inside my eyelids. Maybe I came first with Oliver

She had told him that she loved him. He had known that, but hearing it in the traditional phrase had affected him in new and blinding ways. Ways that made him believe that he could do anything. Anything she needed or wanted him to do. Because her loving him meant so much more than him loving her.

Any segment of land . . . can be interesting of itself, but its greater significance must always lie in the life it sustains.

What the Voortrekkers failed to realize in their moment of victory was that they had offered the covenant to God, not He to them.

It's important to realize that what's most important is paying attention to the things that are not important.

You will live with this forever, and it will spell out the language of your life.

But this is not the story which Native Son tells, for we find here merely, repeated in anger, the story which we have told in pride. Nor, since the implications of this anger are evaded, are we ever confronted with the actual or potential significance of our pride; which is why we fall, with such a positive glow of recognition, upon Max's long and bitter summing up.

Honey," he said, "you ain't no bigger than a minute." She sighed. "Sometimes a minute can be a mighty powerful thing.

History does not refer merely to the past, history is literally present in all that we do