Top 25 Significant Things Quotes of 27 - Page 2

I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my

I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them. I have therefore written down accurately and candidly much that I have heard and seen, and, except by way of commentary, nothing that I have merely imagined.

William Butler Yeats

Beautiful, Artist, Significant Things

William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.222, Penguin

Young men do not usually become inactive in the Church because they are given too many significant things to do.

Spencer W. Kimball

Men, Significant Things, Church

Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

Television allows you to actually make a living, feed your children, send them to college and important significant things. To have the ability, the luxury, to make the choices of doing little movies where people cannot pay you.

Patricia Arquette

Children, College, Significant Things

Source: collider.com

Of course, a woman's choice to go out into the world is a very significant thing. But part of real liberation is recognizing that mothering is every bit as important as other kinds of work. I actually believe it's more important than anything we do out in the world.

Marianne Williamson

Real, Believe, Significant Things

Source: scottlondon.com

I blame the newspapers because every day they call our attention to insignificant things, while three or four times in our lives,we read books that contain essential things. Once we feverishly tear the band of paper enclosing our newspapers, things should change and we should find--I do not know--the Pensées by Pascal!

Marcel Proust

Book, Knowledge, Insignificant Things

It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Insignificant Things, Half, Hours

The books that I do, the stories I write - I'm glad I'm able to do them, but they will quickly be swallowed up by the sands of time. Sometimes it frustrates me that I'm not able to do bigger, more important, more significant things. I guess you have to be content to do whatever it is you can do.

Jim Woodring

Book, Writing, Significant Things

Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com.

Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons.

Eugene Jarecki

Significant Things, Negative, Lessons

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Significant things often happen when you are present. Things come to you, and then you respond to what is required. The response very often comes without a premeditated idea of what you want. It is simply a response to the situation.

Eckhart Tolle

Significant Things, Ideas, Want

Source: rayhemachandra.com

If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things.

Courtney Barnett

Stress, Insignificant Things, Worry

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

I think some of the most significant things happen in history when you get the right people in the right place at the right time and I think that's what we are.

Chokwe Lumumba

Thinking, Significant Things, People

Source: bknation.org

It always seemed to me like it was a significant thing to do with one's life to be an actor 'cause I love movies and I felt like, not to be grandiose about it, but there is something important about film with the function it provides to general society.

Charlie Hunnam

Significant Things, Movie Love, Important

"Comic-Con 2011: Charlie Hunnam and Ron Perlman Interview SONS OF ANARCHY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 25, 2011.