Importance Quotes

1777 Importance quotes by 1325 unique authors

But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire… — Thomas Jefferson
I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such momentous importance… — Benjamin Franklin
I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue.… — Benjamin Franklin
Amongst other strange things said of me, I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of the number; and indeed, that… — Patrick Henry
Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early… — Thomas Paine
What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms can throw up miraculous sports… — V.S. Naipaul
I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful stone, was only… — Carl Jung
As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the good side of… — Karl Marx
By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but… — Ralph Ellison
If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which must… — John F. Kennedy
Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesnt help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown,… — Dan Quayle
The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no… — Virginia Woolf
In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of dehydrated excrement. — Malcolm Lowry
Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress. — PJ Harvey
I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that… — Condoleezza Rice
People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and… — Vaclav Havel
Moreover, they [the Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least three of their most immediate… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
America is now the only global superpower, and Eurasia is the globe's central arena. Hence, what happens to the distribution of power on the Eurasian… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
An arc of crisis stretches along the shores of the Indian Ocean, with fragile social and political structures in a region of vital importance to… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not to… — Niccolo Machiavelli
In my recent travels into African countries and others, I was impressed by the importance of having a working unity among all peoples, black as… — Malcolm X
The biggest lesson I have learned is the stupendous importance of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you… — Dale Carnegie
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me… — Philip Pullman
We are human behind and this part of our human nature that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.… — Malala Yousafzai
The other animals humans eat, use in science, hunt, trap, and exploit in a variety of ways, have a life of their own that is… — Tom Regan

Who Wrote These Importance Quotes

1,325 authors contributed a total of 1,777 Importance Quotes, led by these top contributors: