Comprehensive Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.

— Anya Seton

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Not the spectacular things are the important things - the unspectacular things are the important things, especially in the future.

— Dieter Rams

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time

— Margot Fonteyn

We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards.

— Wilford Woodruff

Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but whose effects…

— Henry David Thoreau

It was often in small moments that significant things were revealed.

— Lisa Kleypas

“Important events may be shaped by chance and natural factors -- disease, famine, prosperity, even weather – but the thoughts and desires of men,…

— Robert Schell

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Life turns on little things. The momentous events in history can leave us untouched, while small events may shape our destinies.”

— Jennifer Worth

What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.

— Anton Chekhov

“Our responses to events are far more significant than the events themselves”

— Sarah Napthali