An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

— Richard Meier

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

— Robert Motherwell

As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.

— Peter T. King

As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.

— Ralph Adams Cram

Attitudes are more important than facts.

— George MacDonald

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Beauty is less important than quality.

— Eugene Ormandy

Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.

— Florenz Ziegfeld

Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among, if not the complete exclusion of, some of those objectives, in order to meet what are considered the more important of them.

— Henry Petroski