Quotes About Significance

What we are trying to do may be just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

No one cares. If you don't exist, then it doesn't matter, right? Evan

When was the last time I'd been the centre of anyone's attention? From 'Or She Dies'.

This is the beautiful thing about this job, because each rival, each situation, is different to the previous one and you always have to find that special something, to say to them "Guys, today is important

María Consuelo Reyes López era su nombre completo. Consuelo. En mi circunstancia no pude enamorarme de alguien con un nombre más apropiado: Consuelo. "Soy tu Consuelo" me decía y sí, ella era mi consuelo, mi suelo, mi cielo, mi sueño, mi país, mi patria. Cuánta patria puede ser una mujer para un hombre. Cuánta patria era Chelo para mí.

Sometimes the objects we hold dear give away who we are even more than the people we love.

Shouldn't we be speaking of something more important than life and death?

It is hard to please everyone. It is impossible to tell you all the insults my painting of this year has won me, but I don't care, for when I am no longer controversial I will no longer be important.

But since everything has its reason, and the fantasy of an individual seems to me just as legitimate as the appetite of a million men and capable of holding just as important a place in the world, we must… live for our vocation, climb up into our ivory tower, and there, like a dancer amid her perfumes, remain alone with our dreams.

There are four tongues worthy of the world's use," says the Talmud: "Greek for song, Latin for war, Syriac for lamentation, and Hebrew for ordinary speech.

You had to grow into your own significance—or come to terms with the lack of it.

The war between Jews and Romans was fought with great ferocity by both sides, and it led to suffering, death, and destruction on a scale for which we have no other comparable testimony in the history of the early Roman empire, even if Josephus, its historian, exaggerated casualty figures on both sides. Yet some scholars have downplayed the scale and significance of the war of Jews against Romans. This book will prove that the war was not small, short,

You work on things and you have such faith in them while you're making them that everything feels special - in a way.

Love and hate, Miss Kendra, are not two opposite things. They're like the front of your hand and the back of it, Two sides of the same thing. They both mean, this person matters to me.

Years don't begin and end because everybody gets together at the same time and says they do. Years really start when important things happen to you. When you're born. When you find the human you're going to live with forever. Your life begins when it becomes important.

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

All that because Promethea is a woman? All this uproar, this trembling, this resistance? --Yes. No. Y-Yes...Naynayno. Whynoyes. Yes, Promethea is a woman. Yes, but "because is a woman," that is not important. But no it precisely its not being important that is so important.

if Rand was equal to Old

whether it means anything to ask why we're here....

The birth of information theory came with its ruthless sacrifice of meaning—the very quality that gives information its value and its purpose.

We can't exist and then not-exist, otherwise all we do or try to do would be so pointless.

Dar pretinde, în schimb, c? exist? un motiv pentru care orice persoan? se afl? aici, acum, È™i c? exist? misiuni ce trebuiesc îndeplinite dincolo de rutina zilnic? È™i care confer? semnificaÈ›ie rutinei zilnice, sentimentul c? întreg universul vrea cumva ca persoana mea s? existe È™i c? sunt rodul unei imagini apriorice pe care doar o completez cu am?nuntele biografiei mele.

For the first time in his life he felt necessary—and necessary to something that was nearest his heart. There is no sublimer feeling in the world, and it was his at last.

Rutherford assented. "Yes, I liked him a good deal too, though I also saw surprisingly little of him, if you measure it in time." And then there was a somewhat odd silence, during which it was evident that we were both thinking of some one who had mattered to us far more than might have been judged from such casual contacts.