#importance

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#american #american youth #arriving #attributes #driver

The cosmical importance of this conclusion is profound and the possibilities it opens for the future very remarkable, greater in fact than any suggested before by science in the whole history of the human race. ↗

— Francis William Aston

#before #conclusion #fact #future #greater

Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#importance #individualism #simplicity #freedom

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humor #oscar-wilde #truth #humor

Peter! Were you looking for a horse-shoe?" "No; I was expecting the horse, but the shoe is a piece of pure, gorgeous luck." "And observation. I found it." "You did. And I could kiss you for it. You need not shrink and tremble. I am not going to do it. When I kiss you, it will be an important event -- one of those things which stand out among their surroundings like the first time you tasted li-chee. It will not be an unimportant sideshow attached to a detective investigation. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#horse-shoes #horses #humor #importance #kisses

There is something in that name that seems to inspire absolute confidence. I pity any poor woman whose husband is not called Ernest. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#inspirational

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe. ↗

— Karl Pearson

#apparently #carried #dealing #description #endless

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#importance #language #words #life

The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four, of secondary importance is to prepare for being five. ↗

— Jim Trelease

#enjoy #five #four #importance #prepare

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#importance #important #minds #religion #the-truth