Quotes About Significance

His glory Jesus Christ does not consist in beingplaced without the confines of history; a more real worship is paid to him, by showing that the whole of history is incomprehensible without him.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.

I would like to ask Him if He was indeed virgin born, because the answer to that question would define history.

God did not make a mistake when He chose you to bear Christ's name at this hinge of history.

A lot of things in history are timing, and it's very peculiar because in retrospect things [and] people can look more brilliant or necessary than they actually were.

I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . . I did not need it very bad.

I just feel like history is very much alive and important and I don't, you know, I can't worry about whether people get it or not, per se.

There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.

Connection to the music and the history was very powerful to me. I think that's what I feel the most blessed about.

It's not often as an actor you get to be involved with a project that seems to be on the right side of history.

I think whatever I've done, I hope I've earned a footnote in India's long and tortuous history.

History is not an endless succession of meaningless circles but a directed movement toward a great event.

You don't realize 'till you get here what a moment in history you're a part of.

The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence.

It is home. The Twin Cities are home and [Ames] is home. It's definitely always a place that's going to be very special to me.

It's a masterpiece [The Exorcist]. This is an honor. I know you may not think so, but it really is. How many movies in our lifetime? This is an honor.

He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors.

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that is latent within them.

When you know that everything matters—that every move counts as much as any other—you will begin living a life of permanent purpose.

Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn out well, but the conviction that what you are doing makes sense, no matter how things turn out.

Your feelings come from where you find your hope. Where is your happiness and your significance?