Importance Quotes

“My life, my joy, my food, my ail the world!”

“Small to greater matters must give way.”

“The arts are essen­tial to any com­plete national life. The State owes it to itself to sus­tain and encour­age them. [...] Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the rev­er­ence and delight which are their due.”

“If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that's not much - unless you've been warned that if you're even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference.”

“He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.”

“The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.”

“Little things are big.”

“The cemetery is full of indispensable people.”

“Although the last, not least.”

“[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.”

“Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.”

“I think it is the most important subject facing this country, but I cannot get any of my ministers to take any notice.”

“A thing is important if anyone think it important.”

“Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices.”

“I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.”

“Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the story? have you heard the news? life in the capital is wonderful; the Russian dancers....' These are our stays and props. These lace our days together and make of life a perfect globe.”

“In all your life, you will never find a method more effective in getting through to another person than to make that person feel important.”

“It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.”

“Long ago I realized that no other person would be to me what you are.”

“The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do.”

“Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.”

“Direct and easy communications — freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense — has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.”

“Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.”

“This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.”

“It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.”