Important Quotes

"Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit"

Jennifer Lopez, Musician

"Food is an important part of a balanced diet"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"It is important to know who killed Jack Kennedy and why"

Jim Garrison, Public Servant

"It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

"Most important, don't do anything you don't want"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

"I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat"

Barack Obama, President

"Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs"

Christopher Morley, Author

"The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true"

John Steinbeck, Author

"It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business"

Herbert Hoover, President

"Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career"

Barack Obama, President

"And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it"

Barack Obama, President

"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do"

George W. Bush, President

"One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late"

Agatha Christie, Writer

"We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray"

George W. Bush, President

"I've found that the most important thing in music is the silence between the notes"

Wayne Shorter, Musician

"I think the important thing now is to have a celebration and then with determination move into our common, shared, different future"

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

"Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel"

Jim Ryun, Athlete

"Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone"

Eric Cantona, Athlete

"Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so"

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Politician

"Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success"

Joe Baca, Politician

"Head Start is especially important to Latino children. Latino children make up more than one-third, 34 percent, of all those eligible for the program"

Joe Baca, Politician

"I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work"

Imelda Staunton, Actress

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

""Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

"Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all"

Dale Carnegie, Writer

"Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace"

Nhat Hanh, Activist

"It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"It's very important to vote. People died for this right"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government"

Bernard Baruch, Businessman

"You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important"

Miriam Makeba, Musician

"I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important"

Pamela Stephenson, Actress

"The script was always the most important thing to me and I loved the script. For one thing, I've always admired trees. I just worship them. Think what trees have witnessed, what history, such as living through the Civil War, yet they still survive"

Kim Novak, Actress

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