Quotes About Significance

One word of wisdom is as good as a hundred ordinary words.

Those who say that simple things don't matter should ask a lion how he feels when a fly enters a nostril.

For many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes

As muito feias que me perdoem Mas beleza é fundamental.

Theology is the systematic study and expression of the teachings of Scripture. It defines and interprets all that a person thinks and does. It ranks above all other necessities (Luke 10:42); no other task or discipline approaches it in significance. Therefore, the study of theology is the most important human activity.

What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

for once in our lives / Everything became a You and nothing was an It.

This fundamental dimension of being itself, of the actual existence of what they are studying, is taken for granted by all other branches of knowledge, which then go on to study what it is and how it works. But just because something is taken for granted does not mean that it is unimportant.

Events in the past may roughly be divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.

I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them. I have therefore written down accurately and candidly much that I have heard and seen, and, except by way of commentary, nothing that I have merely imagined.

I HAVE desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them.

The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.

Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.

Statistically speaking, there's a better chance that some part of me will go on to greatness somewhere in the world. I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

If we discount the account of creation, we remove the significance of Christmas.

Something of eternal significance transpired there. Not only was the calendar of the world changed, but heaven itself and eternity were affected.

The meaning of a communication is the result you get.

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders how is all life to become important to him?

If I hold onto something it's because I want it not because I want to display it or show it to somebody else. I've got some cool stuff, I've got some cool things.