Quotes About Significance

I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975.

And that right there was the single greatest moment of my twelve years of life, seeing Baba on that roof, proud of me at last.

All the great moments of history have taken place inside people's heads.

what has mattered are the moments of exposure to every life, when habit is no longer enough, and choices have to be made. That's when everyone becomes a great man, for a moment; and the choices made in those moments, which come all too frequently, then combine to make history.

To the locals, he realized, the Orkneys were the center of the world.

All that day he spent distracted, wandering as if still in a dream, wondering from time to time how one told the difference. Wasn't this life dreamlike in every significant respect? Everything overlit, bizarre, symbolic of something else?

Life—what was it? So deep and important and full of feeling, so crucial, then suddenly just a blink, a mayfly moment and gone. Nothing really, in the grander scheme; and no grander scheme either. No. A vertiginous perch, the bedside chair in a hospice.

To write things down as luck wasn't the same as writing them off as non-existent or in some way beneath consideration.

Frank said nothing. Which was a good answer.

Bir yerde küçük insanlar?n büyük gölgeleri varsa, o yerde güneÅŸ bat?yor demektir.

You don't appear to be an afterthought with that one, dearest freakling. You appear to be the only thought.

Every moment of life mattered. Even the perfect snowflake that alighted on his palm and melted in seconds.

The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly.

In the world of identity, utterances have functions, separate from their meanings.

He's no longer a stranger. He's my moon.

If you only had brain in your head you would be as good as man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.

Todos os grandes acontecimentos se entrelaçam com os pequenos.

Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.

In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.

As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous.

I am not afraid to say my relationship with my man is important, even vital, to who I am as a person.

I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.

There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.

Erotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles- the trappings of religion- confuse as much as they help.