#significance

Could a literary life be referred to with the iambic pentameter of, say, harnessing wind power, transplanting hearts or saving the whales. Or did it necessitate the sombre and monotonous dirge of software, priority banking or turbine building. ↗

— Anita Nair

#monotony #professions #significance #writing #life

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

— Megan McCafferty

#humans #jessica-darling #significance #nature

Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety. ↗

— Aesop

#insignificance #often #our #safety

But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#actually #arrogance #church #england #extraordinarily

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#art form #aversion #between #conventional #criticism

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication. ↗

— James Dean

#dedication #duty #express #full #grasp

The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#black #center #country #development #even

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication. ↗

— Marlon Brando

#dedication #duty #express #full #grasp

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance. ↗

— Pablo Casals

#care #deepest #feel #gives #i

I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city. ↗

— Henry Cisneros

#failed #housing #i #lacking #little