Quotes About Significance

The symbols of today enable the reality of tomorrow.

Hitler had used an act of terror, an event of limited inherent significance, to institute a regime of terror that killed millions of people and changed the world. The

Hitler had used an act of terror, an event of limited inherent significance, to institute a regime of terror that killed millions of people and changed the world.

When someone changes your world, that's when you know he's important to you.

Things become bearers of memory and information, especially when enhanced by stories that expand their capacity to carry meaning.

Without Ruth, there would be no record.

Without pandering to your presumed desire to identify with the hero of a story, they made you feel that what mattered to the writer had consequence for you, too.

This is all we are at our best, he thought, tiny instances accumulating up into a greater whole. There is noting magnificent in this world, he thought, that is not born from an act so slight as to go wholly unnoticed. We must be especially attentive to see them, and to remember to perform them, he thought, yes, that is the crux: we must simply pay attention.

11. Why did seeing my name written out by her make me feel like that was the first time I'd ever seen my name in my whole life?

For a human life to be meaningful, it must be one in which I am not a spectator but a real participant, and a participant in something that matters to me. [...] For my life to be meaningful, those projects have to feel like _my_ projects: not in the sense that I own them, but more in the sense that they own me, that they have captured my focus.

Dragostea... Nu-mi place cuvântul ?sta, tocmai fiindc? are pentru mine o însemn?tate prea mare, neîinchipuit mai mare decît ai putea în?elege dumneata.

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I am just sitting back and trying to take in the idea that the God who created everything around us, He didn't call the mountains or the forest or the ocean to spend eternity with Him, but He called us.

You can only offend me if you mean something to me.

If you don't have a defense this league don't exist. So I feel like defensive players do need to kind of stand their ground to kind of show that we are just as important. You see all the offensive guys getting paid and we are just as important.

I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.

Ohio's future is important to me.

Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.

What would anyone want to write about me for? I'm just an old lady.

My old man Shorty was a huge figure in my musical life.

We don't do enough to help older people recognize how much they matter.

I have a lot of very happy memories of the Olympic Games, and the final against Nigeria and the goal mean an awful lot to me.

If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters.

I'm 'One Time' for a reason.