Quotes About Significance

If it isn't life and death, it isn't life and death.

Part of what I've learned is that if it isn't life and death, it isn't life and death.

Faced with the mind-surpassing grandeur of the universe, we cannot but admit that there is meaning which is greater than man.

The meaning of awe is to realize that life takes place under wide horizons, horizons that range beyond the span of an individual life or even the life of a nation, a generation, or an era. Awe enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple; to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.

G0d is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.

Time and space are interrelated. To overlook either of them is to be partially blind. What we plead against is man's unconditional surrender to space, his enslavement to things. We must not forget that it is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things.

We must not forget that it is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things.

is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things.

It is, indeed, a unique occasion at which the distinguished word qadosh is used for the first time: in the Book of Genesis at the end of the story of creation. How extremely significant is the fact that it is applied to time: "And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy."7 There is no reference in the record of creation to any object in space that would be endowed with the quality of holiness.

A great event, miraculous as it may be, if it happened only once, will hardly be able to dominate forever the mind of man.

The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.

I would just as soon die now, but I haven't done anything yet to be remembered by

He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.

How could I forget you, Darryl? You called me God.

Sometimes all a story needed was one or two people to read or listen to it to make it matter.

The flattening of language is a flattening of meaning. Language which is not taut with a sense of its own significance, which is apologetic in its desire to be acceptable to a modern consciousness, language in other words which submits to its audience, rather than instructing, informing, moving, challenging and even entertaining them, is no longer a language which can carry the freight the Bible requires. It has, in short, lost all authority.

In a nation distracted by faction, there are, no doubt, always a few, though commonly but a very few, who preserve their judgment untainted by the general contagion. They seldom amount to more than, here and there, a solitary individual, without any influence, excluded, by his own candour, from the confidence of either party, and who, though he may be one of the wisest, is necessarily, upon that very account, one of the most insignificant men in the society.

Four days before the declaration of World War II, on August 27, 1939, the test pilot van Chaim flew the first jet aircraft in the world, the Heinkel 178. Only a small circle of people directly concerned knew of this event, which for that time was of great importance. Exactly a year later, on August 27, 1940, the first Italian jet plane, the Caproni-Campini made its first flight. It reached 300 mph, and the event received great propaganda.

Beware the things of this world that can mean everything or nothing. Ciro

What is most truly valuable is often underrated.

The value is in the worth, not in the number.

We tend to underestimate the small things about ourselves that are often our most valuable attributes.

Utility is most men's test of worth.