Significant Quotes

It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.

What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake...spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.

It's not that your most important work is meaningless; it's that your most trivial movements are also significant.

I couldn't imagine anything more horrifying than three middle aged men trying to pretend that 'Black Dog' is still significant. It's inappropriate.

I do believe motion pictures are the significant art form of our time. And I think the main reason is, they're an art form of movement, as opposed to static art forms of previous times.

Physics is the most fundamental, and least significant, of the sciences.

I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.

What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.

The person who is capable of producing a large number of ideas per unit of time, other things being equal, has a greater chance of having significant ideas.

I do not attach much importance to America's bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.

Nobody has achievements like this ... you cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.

Without giving specific names, most of the significant American banks, the larger banks, are bankrupt, totally bankrupt.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

In a world where the name of God is sometimes associated with vengeance and even a duty of hatred and violence, this message is both timely and significant.

I don't think the human effect [of climate change] is significant compared to the natural effect.

The club continued to make significant player decisions without involving me. In the end such a breach of trust and confidence meant that I had no option but to leave.

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.

We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been.

In God's eyes the most significant is often the most hidden.

The most significant thing is public participation. That assures the Afghan public that our promises are not empty.

Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.

Strive for originality in thought and action. Be first; Be different; And be daring. Only then will you make a significant difference in this world. You may even attain greatness.

Art is significant deformity.

I get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant.

In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.

If I eat junk food and have a workout the next day, I feel a significant difference in the way my body responds to exercise. Im sluggish, tired and run out of energy very quickly.

It is better to live on the house top than to live in a house full of confusion.

As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto is fifth.

While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.

We know that acid rain has had no significant environmental effect on trees or forests in the United States... It is based on popular myths and half-baked theories.

In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.

Thinking is the first step to a revolution in your life that is incredibly significant.

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

Successful adult relationships, whether between lovers or friends, require a significant degree of vulnerability, trust, and openness-

The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs.

It is a significant symbol that street art is gaining increased attention and credibility in the art world and that's a good thing.

The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

Unselfish love for all people without exception is the most important point of convergence among all significant spiritualities and religions.

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

I have significant concerns about reducing the 188th Fighter Wing's capabilities, and will fight tooth and nail against attempts to reduce its personnel or take away aircraft.

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we teach.

What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?

There is no significant difference between human activities and those by amoebas and even bacteria, well, on the GRAND SCALE.

Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant.