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Quotes About Significance

It is significant, he said after a pause, that the English regard slackness as a vice. We, on the other hand, should vastly prefer it to tension. Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it be better if more people were slackers?
~ James Hilton
If only for a moment. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary person you loved.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
No response is a response, and it's a powerful one. Remember that.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
No response is a response, and it's a powerful one. Remember that.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
my life will always matter even in spirit
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Perhaps all I want is to be needed. But what I need is to be indispensable to somebody.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Whether you love only once in your life. You realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you could ever possibly imagine with that person.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
I choose to be your everything the day you told me I am enough.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
What's really important, are the connections you have with the people you love. Your family, Your friends, Grace-truly, those are the things that matter.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes. Amen.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
~ James Joyce
You suspect, Stephen retorted with a sort of a half laugh, that I may be important because I belong to the fauborgh Saint Patrice called Ireland for short. —I would go a step farther, Mr Bloom insinuated. —But I suspect, Stephen interrupted, that Ireland must be important because it belongs to me.
~ James Joyce
Unsheathe your dagger definitions; Horseness is the Whatness of All Horse...
~ James Joyce
The great fact emerges that after that historic date all holographs so far exhumed initialled by Haromphrey bear the sigla H.C.E. and while he was only and long and always good Dook Umphrey for the hungerlean splapeens of Lucalizod and Chimbers to his cronies it was equally certainly a pleasant turn of the populace which gave him as sense of those normative letters the nickname Here Comes Everybody
~ James Joyce
Were all important in god's eyes.
~ James Joyce
I have often thought since on looking back over that strange time that it was that small act, trivial in itself, that striking of the match, that determined the whole aftercourse of both our lives
~ James Joyce
he knew the way to take a woman when he sent me the 8 big poppies because mine was the 8th
~ James Joyce
At age nineteen I did not want to accept the possibility that a man's murder could be treated with the social significance of a hangnail that had been snipped off someone's finger.
~ James Lee Burke
For some reason, each moment I spent with him made me feel that I had been diminished.
~ James Lee Burke
how many decisions did you make that at the time seemed inconsequential but down the track had enormous influence on either you or others?
~ James Lee Burke
Space was more appropriate for the Sith than for the Jedi. The invisible enslavement to gravity, the contained power of the stars, the utter insignificance of life Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Hyperspace, by contrast, was more suitable to the Jedi: nebulous, neither here nor
~ James Luceno
Meaning and purpose are vital to all generations at work.24 People have never stuck around for very long when what they do is trivial and unimportant.
~ James M. Kouzes
Giving words to ideas was too dangerous in their world. When Poppa did give words to something, though, it was for a reason. It had weight.
~ James McBride