Quotes About Significance

I wanted love, the big love, the kind people wrote songs and made movies about. I wanted to be the center of some guy's universe, the only thing he could think about. I wanted to matter that way. "Hey!

when the heart of a man has nothing to do, but to be busy about creature-comforts, every little thing troubles him; but when the heart is taken up with the weighty things of eternity, with the great things of eternal life, the things of here below that disquieted it before are things now of no consequence to him in comparison with the other-how things fall out here is not much regarded by him, if the one thing that is necessary is provided for.

How could a preacher in rural Yemen pose a threat to the most powerful nation on earth? he wondered.

It is in the petty details, not in the great results, that the interest of existence lies.

No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about...One thing's for sure—no one but you can be the hero of your story.

A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first?

It must be important. I tiptoe back outside.

If every event is part of the fabric of the conspiracy, then everything must have a reason, a meaning.

Matt took a deep breath. Something just happened between them. Julie felt something for him. She did. He could tell even through this online world. Whether it was him or Finn didn't really matter. It was a difference of names really, that's all.

Even though I was only sixteen, I knew enough to understand that it was one of the most important and most powerful moments I would ever have.

That the last two letters in her name were the first two in his, a silly thing he never mentioned to her but caused him to believe that they were bound together.

How many times does a person write his name in a lifetime—a million? Two million?

She believed she was not significant enough to cast a shadow of her own.

Always at the end of a queue, in the shadow of others, she believed she was not significant enough to cast a shadow of her own.

Y, así, esos ocho meses quedan atrás, no tardan en difuminarse, en olvidarse, como esa prenda de ropa que nos ponemos para una celebración especial o que pertenece ya a otra temporada y que con el tiempo acaba resultando engorrosa, prescindible.

My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.

A lot of work and money has been spent on astronomy and yet we have not found life. So we are rare, and rare things tend to be fragile and you have to be careful about them

People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting.

Language is present in a piece of work like the sea in a single drop.

The work that I do, I am grateful to do and honored and privileged to do, but I do it for my family and, if you don't have a family, then what does it mean?

I think any actor will tell you that they always assume they'll never work again, so every job becomes important.

Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what were doing;but it become a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of our life.

I have never figured out how women work but I do know that their skin color has no significance. Black or white, every last one is pretty pink on the inside and they are all impossible.

Smithson was someone of tremendous significance whose work was not beautiful at all. I think he was an iconoclast.