Quotes about Significance
A single candle has the power to light up a room, a single star has the power to light up the sky, and a single soul has the power to light up the world.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
— Norman Vincent Peale
You were seen, you were heard and you matter.
— Oprah Winfrey
Every physical encounter has a metaphysical meaning.
— Oprah Winfrey
If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.
— Confucius
He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
— Cormac McCarthy
Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
— Cormac McCarthy
If something did not love you you would not be here.
— Cormac McCarthy
Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name.
— Cormac McCarthy
If you think that the dignity of your life cannot be cancelled with the stroke of a pen then I think you should think again.
— Cormac McCarthy
Connie woke up to the existence of legs. They became more important to her than faces, which are no longer very real.
— DH Lawrence
Dr. Dewey said that the deepest urge in human nature is "the desire to be important." Remember that phrase: "the desire to be important." It is significant. You are going to hear a lot about it in this book.
— Dale Carnegie