Significance Quotes

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.

Watching a child first learn to crawl on a carpet somehow has more significance to you as you get a little older. Perhaps it is that you have suffered more.

Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.

Immigration is an issue of global significance in America. And if you look at the terrorist alerts and attacks, Latinos [as a group] are not in the top five list [for] terror alerts.

Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.

One's fetishes are fascinating, but not because of their beauty or significance. The same could be said for one's genitals, or one's children.

Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.

Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that.

Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.

When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance in the finished product. The subject is of no aesthetic significance.

Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death.

Something of eternal significance transpired there. Not only was the calendar of the world changed, but heaven itself and eternity were affected.

The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed.

What the use of P [the significance level] implies, therefore, is that a hypothesis that may be true may be rejected because it has not predicted observable results that have not occurred.

Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance.

If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.

Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.

There is no significance of God in my life, God is my life. I would not be, without God. I am supposed to be dead.

The meaning of today will not be clear until tomorrow.

Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.

Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.

By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.

I noticed long ago that Amin has the tendency to concentrate power in his own hands but I did not attach any particular significance to this. However, recently this tendency has become dangerous.

Love is the reflection of God's unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation.

How I work is that I write a story I'd like to read. Then you fly to Paris or Sydney and the interviewers talk about the greater significance of your work.

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see.

A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

Since the design of the movement is paramount, shape, for me, should have no significance.

Visions possess greater significance than just entertainment! Visions have power.

every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.

Colour has taken hold of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of me forever. That is the significance of this blessed moment

To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a crime.

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless.

Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!

If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.

Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should be equal to the Revelation at Sinai in significance.

It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.

When our minds really catch hold of the significance of Jesus' atonement, the world's hold on us loosens.

The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.

The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.

The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.

It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.

One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change.