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Importance Quotes (page 41)

Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety. Bertrand Russell
Ivan Turgenev quote: "What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's..."
What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense. Ivan Turgenev
The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication. W. Somerset Maugham
2. The instant the doors open, you want to push forward as hard as possible, in an effort to get onto the train without letting anybody off. This is very important. If anybody does get off, it is legal to tackle him and drag him back on. Dave Barry
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "My most important problem was destroying the lines of..."
My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
That he'll never let you down. That boy's got a heart the size of Kentucky, and he loves you. That's important. Take it from someone who knows. My mom used to tell me that whatever you do, marry someone who loves you more than you love him. And I listened to her. Why do you think Henry and I get along so well? I'm not saying that I don't love him, because I do. But if I ever left Henry or something, God forbid, ever happened to me, I don't think he'll be able to go on. And that guy would risk... Nicholas Sparks
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance. Viktor E. Frankl
I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your life - the life we make together. Take me like a turtle whose shell must be cracked, whose heart is ice, who needs your heat. Love me like a warrior, sweat up to your earlobes and all your hope between your teeth. Love me so I know I am at least as important as anything you have ever wanted. Dorothy Allison
Barbara Bush quote: "Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick..."
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people. Barbara Bush
The book will be a demonstration that children, without being coerced or manipulated, or being put in exotic, specially prepared environments, or having their thinking planned and ordered for them, can, will and do pick up from the world around them important information about what we call the Basics. It will also demonstrate that "ordinary" people, without special schooling themselves, can give their children whatever slight assistance may be needed to help them in their exploration of the... John Holt
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection. Bertrand Russell
John Piper quote: "Reading is more important to me than eating."
Reading is more important to me than eating. John Piper
It is very important to a lot of people to make unmistakably clear to themselves and to the universe that they love the universe but are not intimidated by it and will not be shaken by it, no matter what it has in store. Moreover, they demand something from themselves early in life that can be taken ever after as a demonstration of this abiding feeling. Norman Maclean
John Cassavetes quote: "Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important."
Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important. John Cassavetes
Michael Crichton quote: "When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's..."
When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately? Michael Crichton

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