Quotes About Significance

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

To me, every serial is equally important.

If you become famous but haven't actually achieved anything, then your life has no real meaning - unless you're spectacularly shallow.

I wouldn't want to finish my career with the number 20 shirt; I say everything with that.

I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!

When I was a kid, beating England was incredible; it always had greater repercussion than beating anyone else.

The second time is the one we remember, where memory begins. Putting the moments in order is only half the story. What matters is the weight of the moments as they accumulate.

The belt will grow dust and sit on the mantelpiece, but it's not about the belt. It's about how I can be as a father, as a human being that matters to me.

All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

los títulos y honores carecían de importancia.

Fact is what we can see or discern; truth is the larger significance we extrapolate from those facts.

B. A." Here you can infer B, no matter which

We're often wrong at predicting who or what will transform us. Encountering certain people, books, music, places, or ideas Ã¢â'¬Â¦ at just the right time can immediately make our lives happier, richer, more beautiful, resonant, or meaningful. When it happens, we feel a kind of instant love for them, both deep and abiding. Now and then it can be something as trifling as a children's book, a returned telephone call, or a night at a seaside bar in Mykonos.

It offended his sense of proportion and economy to throw away a ninety-percent serviceable string of lights. It offended his sense of himself, because he was an individual from an age of individuals, and a string of lights was, like him, an individual thing. No matter how little the thing had cost, to throw it away was to deny its value and, by extension, the value of individuals generally: to willfully designate as trash an object that you knew wasn't trash.

Katz couldn't have said exactly why Walter mattered to him. No doubt part of it was simply an accident of grandfathering: of forming an attachment at an impressionable ago, before the contours of his personality were fully set.

The man who 'forgets' his toothbrush in a woman's house is a man who wants to come back.

We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things...

I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?

But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment.

Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not like all of the words that had come to mean nothing, but like the last breath of a drowning victim.

Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing.

All that mattered was him looking at me

Life overflows with imperfections, but some matter more than others

He asked what was wrong. It's just that why would you have one for him and not one for my dad? What do you mean! It isn't fair. What isn't fair! My dad was good. Mohammed Atta was evil. So! So my dad deserves to be in there. What makes you think it's good to be in here! Because it means you're biographically significant. And why is that good! I want to be significant. Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!