Significant Quotes

There are 41 million people who do not have access to a toilet in Pakistan and as a result they are defecating in the open. And open defecation has significant health and nutritional consequences.

I don't see any significant recession or depression in the offing.

I do find the values in A Christmas Carol significant. It is important not to be mean and stingy and not to give up love for money.

Of those hundreds of lawsuits [for Donald Trump], we're told 30 are significant. There's pressure for him to settle that suit before he goes into the office.

It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.

When you're a big enough part of the process that the Writers Guild gives you a lot of credit, that's a good thing. It tells me that I've had a significant impact on the film as a writer.

To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.

The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further off, the nearer the surface. The nearer home, the deeper.

The most pressing and significant problems in the global economy are unsustainable structural issues with regard to the E.U. - fiscal deficits and the structure of the E.U. itself.

Hair matters. This is a life lesson Wellesley and Yale Law School failed to instil. Your hair will send significant messages to those around you.

I will be as careful as I can in making the most significant decisions any president and commander-in-chief can make about sending our men and women into harm's way.

Race remains a significant challenge in America.

If Vancouver did not succeed as Starbucks from '87 on, our entire international business, which is now thousands of stores and a significant amount of growth and profit, may not have existed.

Only when you are absolutely devoted to what you do, can you produce something significant in the world.

I hope that each of you girls will become an individual of significant worth and a person of virtue so that your contributions are maintained in both human and eternal terms.

It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.

There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.

The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times.

Normally death scenes are good, if you have a significant death scene and it means something it's like the audience has an attachment to you being killed that's a good thing.

A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.

We only need to walk or bike ten percent of the time to make a significant change in society. That is just two days of walking, bicycling or taking transit per month for a typical commuter.

He remained heartbroken, which meant one of two things: either his love was pure and true and earthshakingly significant; or he was addicted to feeling forlorn, he liked being heartbroken.

Do I think reality TV is going to be a path to politics in a significant way? Eh, I don't know. Trump is a very specific case. It's really gonna be hard to replicate that.

Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.

Fighting disparities is very significant.

Who cares and who doesn't care about a project, is going to shape the project in a significant way.

A lot of meetings are held to arrange when to have meetings. ... Meetings today are usually called conferences to make them sound more significant.

Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.

My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.

The truth of the matter is there is significant debate among judicial scholars today as to whether or not we've gone off on the wrong path with regard to Supreme Court decisions.

Especially in the case of India and Pakistan, it's very clear that significant parts of the elites in both countries view having nuclear weapons as a ticket to prestige.

To you to live a significant life, you have to become intentional.

There is no significant man-made Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is badly flawed.

It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well put is half-solved.

I know few significant questions of public policy which can safely be confided to computers. In the end, the hard decisions inescapably involve imponderables of intuition, prudence, and judgment.

This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish history.

If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes.

For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.

All interested parties must be willing to make significant sacrifices.

The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources.

So while there is no evidence at all that Iran has any significant quantity of nuclear material or any nuclear weapons, Iran is a much more difficult nuclear issue to resolve for the United States.

We have raised significant concerns about the way that China and individuals acting on behalf of the state of China have acted in cyberspace.

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.

The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant.

It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.

If we were to impose greater sanctions on economic sectors, I think we could have a significant impact on Putin.

No company that I ever hacked into reported any damages, which they were required to do for significant losses. Sun didn't stop using Solaris and DEC didn't stop using VMS.

It is very different when you age. The things that are significant, or what drives you, or the physical experience of being driven, changes over time.

Things that are very significant and important to you when constructing an identity when you're younger change.

It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.