Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.
Bill GatesSome people wonder all their lives if they’ve made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem.
Ronald ReaganIt is only in our decisions that we are important.
Jean-Paul SartreI think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.
Dolly PartonThe world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
Florence NightingaleA good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
Charles SpurgeonThe Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret AtwoodIf the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.
Thomas JeffersonAnyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.
BonoIf you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.
Stephen CoveyWithout football, my life is worth nothing.
Cristiano RonaldoBilly Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.
Jimmy CarterOnce the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
Ray BradburyPeople will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund BurkeIndifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
J. K. RowlingAll labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.
Billy GrahamTradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. ChestertonLyrics are so important, but they’re really underrated.
Billie EilishOf course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.
Jeff BezosI think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.
Frank OceanHow many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.
Leonardo da VinciThe function of posterity is to look after itself.
Dylan ThomasPeople are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
James BaldwinMusic can change the world because it can change people.
BonoComing generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
Khalil GibranYou don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.
Michelle ObamaWhen people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.
Mark ZuckerbergParentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
George Bernard ShawWe 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.
PlatoThe most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.
Bill GatesThe superfluous, a very necessary thing.
VoltaireThe one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
Theodore RooseveltI owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.
Dave GrohlThe ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.
Terry PratchettLife is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
Tennessee WilliamsMy principles are more important than the money or my title.
Muhammad AliEverybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.
John LennonI would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
Andrew CarnegieWhatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
Mahatma GandhiWe can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.
Lou HoltzIn war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Julius CaesarAnyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by ‚sophisticated‘ methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.
Noam ChomskyGlory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon BonaparteWhat with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
Aldous HuxleyWe are not makers of history. We are made by history.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘
Maya AngelouOfficial dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Aldous HuxleyChristianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
C. S. LewisIf you really love films, and you really want to get the full impact, there’s a huge difference between watching something on a small screen with a mediocre sound system and watching it on a giant screen in a giant theater with a huge beautiful sound system. I mean, the difference is electric.
George LucasNaturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.
Marilyn MonroeFor the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
PlatoFootball (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
Bill ShanklyThat was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn’t entirely conquer – he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.
Hunter S. ThompsonThe lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don’t set out to say anything very important.
Brian EnoHate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
Eleanor RooseveltThe greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.
Billy GrahamThe fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.
Alice WalkerLove him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
James Baldwin