Significance Quotes

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

If you want to lower the significance of Russia in the world, you actually just want to elevate your own country. That is a mistake.

The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe.

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies.

A place without meaning is no place to be.

As much as I don't care about those things, I think it's human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant.

Love finds you in the strangest places, and hope clings to us in the nooks and crannies we never think to look.

I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is.

It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make up that history.

Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.

People talk about 'lives of significance'-as if there's an alternative. If you're not leading a life of significance, you're not living.

My grandmothers apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing.

Things in the margins, including humans who wander there, are often on the brink of becoming someone else, or something else, whose memory may not include the significance of old markers.

. . . woman is a being dominated by the creative urge and . . . no understanding of her as an individual can be gained unless the significance and effects of that great fact can be grasped.

You have two choices, write about something of significance or do something someone wants to write about.

I am conscious of how my body signifies in every space. In every place of the world our body has a different significance.

The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

Worship is of fundamental significance to the life of the individual and to the corporate life of the church, yet we rarely hear it taught as a discipline or practice in the gathering of believers.

At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.

I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will.

Every day, I'll get sent clips via email. I watch them and see if there's something of substance or significance.Some nights are super busy; some nights are quiet.

We may legitimately see in the [Old Testament] event, or in the record of it, additional levels of significance in the light of the end of the story – i.e. in the light of Christ

In a political context of the utmost significance, ["freedom from fear"] recognizes a human right which, in a broad sense, may be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

It seems to me that oftentimes in young relationships once there's a problem of some significance then it's almost like they're both racing for the dumper buzzer.

Testimony is personal knowledge, based upon the witness of the Holy Ghost, that certain facts of eternal significance are true.

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.

Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.

Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.

Everything I own has some significance to me.

To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution.

Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him, and the scope of his existence stretches beyond the stars.

In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.

He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.

The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas which it connects.

Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not know the use of it.

In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.

The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.

It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ.

If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.

Significance is sweet.

Without time,” the angel said, “you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity.” “FYI, philosophy bores me.” “Not philosophy. Reality. Time is what gives life significance.

Devotion means who you are should merge with what you are doing. Otherwise, whatever your activity may be, it will not be of any great significance.

There is great significance and importance in all our day-to-day actions in both words and deeds.

An inferior sense of smell," Marcus said, as if absolutely nothing of significance had happened, "is distinct from being told that one smells unpleasant.

It is the leaders job to add significance to the lives of the people he leads.

Success is about us. Significance is about others.

Any experience, however, trivial in its first appearance, is capable of assuming an indefinite richness of significance by extending its range of perceived connections.

Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last weeks winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong.