Quotes About Significance

The good thing that may yet happen during dying is not the possibility of survival when we're beyond that point. The good thing that may yet happen is that our lives will have great meaning for those we leave behind.

It's sad that grandkids show up at the end of obituaries, way behind the list of work place achievements, social clubs and survivors. Why last? If you've got grandkids, you know they're first when it comes to the joy in your life.

Now, I don't sweat the small stuff, just the things that really matter.

I owe a lot to my time on 'House of Cards' because, up until I booked that show, I had been working consistently for 12 years, but I wasn't working on anything that mattered in the way 'House of Cards' did to its audience, to casting directors, to directors and producers. The show hit this sweet spot.

And all the good you've done will soon be swept away, You've begun to matter more than the things you say.

Why is it such a big deal what I'm swimming?

'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.

Big doors swing on little hinges.

We often find far more power in a symbol than in something that is an an actuality.

Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.

This monument is going to be built as a symbol.

Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol.

I always look for characters that will hopefully develop into a more powerful symbol.

When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it.

Prateik means symbol so I symbolise certain things in my life.

As a proud Indigenous man I have a lot of things that are symbolic and have a lot of meaning to me.

Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures.

I just think that everything is symbolic, and who you are determines everything that you do, small moves and big moves.

One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational head of the organisation.

The symbolic significance of individual athletes' achievements has sometimes proved more productive than the negotiations of diplomats or politicians.

To try to convey literally what the Garden of Eden was like is meaningless. What matters is its symbolic function.

Every holiday has unique fare and symbolic foods, but none as much as Rosh Hashana.

People's most prized possessions carry deeply symbolic and emotional significance.

Marriage is absolutely something that's important to me. It's the ultimate symbolic step in love.