Quotes About Significance

Girls, sometimes I feel as if those exams meant everything, but when I look at the big buds swelling on those chestnut trees and the misty blue air at the end of the streets they don't seem half so important.

The central truth that serves as the platform for Christian marriage — and for all Christian relationships — is that in Christ we are at every moment eternally loved and genuinely significant.

we are motivated to meet our needs for significance and security in ways we unconsciously believe will work.

By cutting God off (what a staggering concept of freedom—mere humans can cut God off from their lives), you cut off the only source of true significance and security.

A good title can save a book

Softly Louis asked, When did you figure this out? Some time ago. It did not seem important to our survival.

I just think people forget what it feels like to really be in love, you know? Like when that's the only thing in the world that matters. I just don't want to decide it's not that important.

Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.

Human lives are too short to waste in trivialities.

If you don't feel loved maybe the outward trappings like weddings and wedding rings become important?

It is not merely happiness we all seek. We seek some place where we belong. For the lucky few, we find it in childhood with our own families. But for most of us we spend our adult lives seeking that place or person or organization that makes us feel that we are important, that we matter, and that without us something would go undone and undoable. We all need to feel that we are irreplaceable.

What a very odd thing,' said Janie, 'to live and leave no mark.

soy un mortal de tan poca consecuencia para el mundo que lo que yo haga no tiene mucha importancia;

The difference between forgetting something and not remembering it is big enough to drive an eighteen-wheeler through.

Sherlock Holmes, to Mary Russell: It seemed to me that your friend's missing aunt took precedence over my history of contrapuntal significance in Bach's cantatas. Mary Russell: I stared at him. It was one of the sweetest things he'd ever said.

For all drama creates bondage, and the actor is only significant to the degree that he is bound.

It's so sad, you get less starstruck when you start realizing that it's not a big deal.

We want to be special for being important. But, sometimes... We become important for being special.

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.

It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce another like it.