Quotes About Significance

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.

Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

All God's works are still in a sense symbols of God. Do we not, as I urged, still account it a merit to recognize a certain inexhaustible significance, "poetic beauty" as we name it, in all natural objects whatsoever?

I grew up in Bristol, R.I. I had grandparents and great-grandparents nearby, and because I was the only grandchild until I was 12, I was the center of a lot of adult attention.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Humans have existed only for the last 0.001 percent of cosmic time. All of which says that - unless the Homo sapiens brain is the one-and-only instance of cogitating machinery - nearly all the intelligence that's out there is beyond our level. And that intelligence is more than just a little bit beyond.

All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

'Never forget' is correct. But the place to remember is in our hearts, not in lavish ceremonies.

Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.

You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.

News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.

My mom knew we were going to call me Kiki by birth. I think she had the nickname before she had my name, and she then found the name that would allow that.

All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.

If no one hears you, and no one listens to you, it doesn't matter how good you are because no one cares about you.

There is no point in doing a lengthy role if there is no importance in it.

She wasn't a fantasy anymore, but something real, something he couldn't imagine living without

And when I look at her face, a face I know better than my own, I know that I have meant as much or more to her. And that means more to me than I could ever hope to explain.

E quando olho para seu rosto, um rosto que conheço melhor que o meu, sei que para ela fui igualmente ou até mais importante. E isto significa mais para mim do que alguma vez poderei explicar.

Nadie ha erigido un monumento en mi honor y mi nombre pronto caerá en el olvido, pero he amado a una persona con toda el alma, y con eso me basta.

Recuerdo que en esos momentos pensé que aquel recorrido, aquel paseo hasta el altar, era el más difícil que nadie tendría que hacer jamás. En todos los sentidos, fue un paseo para recordar.

I have measured out my life in Arsenal fixtures, and any event of any significance has a footballing shadow.

It's sad that he doesn't know why I didn't respond to his seedy nightclub-owner gestures; it's sad that I end up convincing myself somehow that the man capable of making them is a significant and valuable figure in my life.