Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

When I left Dortmund, I said it’s not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

The ‚free-floating intellectual‘ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

It’s an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important… and to feel that you’re being published by people who really don’t get it and/or don’t really care.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

It wasn’t until we got our first office in Palo Alto where things became more like a company. We never went into this wanting to build a company.

If you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

I think hygiene is so important.

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Pakistan is not a unified country.

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

My work and my family are very important to me.

I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

The ways of the Lord are different from the ways of man. Man’s ways remove people from office or business when they grow old or become disabled. But man’s ways are not and never will be the Lord’s ways.

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we’re going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we’re also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

If you are in the country, you should notice landmarks – that is, objects which help you to find your way or prevent you getting lost, such as distant hills, church towers, and nearer objects, such as peculiar buildings, trees, gates, rocks, etc.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

America is the greatest country in the world.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.