Important Things Quotes (page 12)

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• professional
• fate
• school

What began as downsizing went on to wholesale abandonment. Schools closed, libraries and academies shut their doors, professional grammarians and teachers of rhetoric found themselves out of work. There were more important things to worry about than the fate of books. Stephen Greenblatt

• life
• sad
• sad life

The important thing in this life is to link your sadness to the sadness of others. Shusaku Endo

• god
• devil
• detailed

The important things. Where should I find them? In the detail, like God? In the risk, like the Devil? Jeanette Winterson

• relationship
• learning
• personality

When I speak of life and love as expanding with age, sex seems the least important thing. At any age we grow by the enlarging of consciousness, by learning a new language, or a new art or craft (gardening?) that implies a new way of looking at the universe. Love is one of the great enlargers of the person because it requires us to "take in" the stranger and to understand him, and to exercise restraint and tolerance as well as imagination to make the relationship work. May Sarton

• winning
• independent
• training

The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible William S. Burroughs

• love
• emotional
• emotional love

The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. Gore Vidal

• powerful
• power
• real

Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing James Clavell

• history
• things
• importantly

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting. Stephen King

• god is good
• god
• forgiveness

Achilles might be a good papa to the family, but he was also a killer, and he never forgives. Poke knew that, though. Bean warned her, and she knew it, but she chose Achilles for their papa anyway. Chose him and then died for it. She was like that Jesus that Helga preached about in her kitchen while they ate. She died for her people. And Achilles, he was like God. He made people pay for their sins no matter what they did. The important thing is, stay on the good side of God. That's what... Orson Scott Card

• relationship
• life
• friends

Relationships are the most important thing in life, and friends are a part of that. Nicholas Sparks

• kids
• evening
• little

The important thing is to keep them pledging," he explained to his cohorts. "It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what 'pledge' and 'allegiance' mean. Joseph Heller

• words
• saying
• them

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. Stephen King

• work
• moments
• love

Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act. Ram Dass

• ignorance
• importantly
• ignores

He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things. Terry Prachett

• ignorance
• funny
• rough

She's kind of funny looking. Her face is out of balance--broad forehead, buttonnose, freckled cheeks, and pointy ears. A slammed-together, rough sort of face you can't ignore. Still, the whole package isn't so bad. For all I know maybe she's not so wildabout her own looks, but she seems comfortable with who she is, and that's the important thing. Haruki Murakami