Quotes About Significance

God has a plan to make you great, famous, and unique

Your calling may seem insignificant to you, but to God it is very significant

Good words do not last long unless they amount to something.

Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior?

A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.

Something needn't be large to be good.

People who think that they are being 'exploited' should ask themselves whether they would be missed if they left, or whether people would say: 'Good riddance?'

I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.I'm not dismissing it.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.

The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.

I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?"

There has to be a woman, but not much of a one. A good horse is much more important.

Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.

So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you so special?" Now that, I think, is a very good asking.

We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.

It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.