Quotes About Significance

Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.

With monuments as with men, position means everything.

Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man there commands the attention of the world for months? That ain't my world.

The hour through which you are at present passing, the man whom you meet here and now, the task on which you are engaged at this very moment - these are always the most important in your whole life.

I couldn't imagine anything more horrifying than three middle aged men trying to pretend that 'Black Dog' is still significant. It's inappropriate.

Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity the less important he feels.

Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.

To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.

It is not His teachings which make Jesus so remarkable, although these would be enough to give Him distinction. It is a combination of the teachings with the man Himself. The two cannot be separated.

A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.

A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man who calls anything a trifle.

I'd seen a great many partial eclipses, but a partial eclipse has the same relation to a total eclipse as flirting with a man does to marrying him. It's completely different.

Small things were important. Secods were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he does not understand it. When he has fully understood, the value is lost, be it the lowest thing or the highest thing.

This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.

Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.