Relative Importance Quotes

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.

Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.

Not many people care what you do. They care about what you do as much as you care about what they do. Think about it. Just exactly that much. You are not the center of the universe.

If everything is very important, then nothing is important.

Our voices carry so much more weight than Joe Schmo from down the street.

Some things really don't matter.

I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.

Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.

The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.

Everything is as important as everything else.

Is it really that important? It's just television, for God's sake. It's not medicine or something.

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.

All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.

When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.

As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day.

Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.

Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.

Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.

Mountains should not be judged by altitude.

If I'm signing autographs and I see one hundred people in a line I've got to remind myself, "That person is one one-hundredth of my day, but to them I'm their day." You know what I mean? Unless they meet J.Lo later on.

Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

The ties of blood," said Spider, "are stronger than water." Water's not strong," objected Fat Charlie.

I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they open reveals to them more and more that the world we are so proud of is to the universe of careening globes as is one mosquito to the winged and hoofed flocks and herds that darken the air and populate the plains and forests of all the earth. If you killed the mosquito would it be missed? Verily, What is Man, that he should be considered of God?

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.