Significant Quotes

This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.

Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact.

We can continue to make significant strides in the scientific community by exploring new stem cell research methods that do not include destroying human embryos.

During my work there I came across some very significant issues that I started reporting in December of 2001 to the mid-level management within the FBI.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I've always wanted to do more significant stuff. I think of myself as well-informed, but the hardest thing to do is talk about politics and current events and be funny and not just preachy.

There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator.

Once you see a child's selfimage begin to improve, you will see significant gains in achievement areas, but even more important, you will see a child who is beginning to enjoy life more.

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.

I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead.

Generative ideas emerge from joint thinking, from significant conversations, and from sustained, shared struggles to achieve new insights from partners in thought.

It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.

There are some very significant changes in the way the fluids are distributed in our body, the way our heart functions initially, and as well as our bone and muscle.

Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women.

I do not underestimate the difficulty of the challenge that global climate change presents to us. It will take a significant effort and the best talent and technology we have to solve the problem.

To a significant degree, we are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth, and lacking the energy that could be ours because we overindulge in junk foods.

High-quality education provided by MOOCs can be a significant factor in opening doors to opportunity—even among the college-educated.

Look your significant other in the eyes, make that connection.

We see a more assertive Russia, which has implemented a very significant military buildup over several years, and a Russia which has used military force against neighbors, especially Ukraine.

Retention of operational control of its air is important to the Corps' air-ground team, as air constitutes a significant part of its offensive firepower.

I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude... When my attitudes are right theres no challenge too great for me.

Climate change is real and it is caused to a significant extent by human activity.

We want everyone to prepare themselves for the reality that we are not going to be able to recover significant numbers of people.

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

I think we all depend on a significant other, and we think if they leave me, I'll die. But that's not true. We're all much stronger than we think we are.

I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.

There is enough Christianity in our country's history to make it a significant component of our heritage and identity.

Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.

Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which California excels.

A more significant phase should mean serious political dialogue.

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which - miraculously, it seems - merge into a significant event.

Society's emissions of carbon dioxide may or may not turn out to have something significant to do with global warming-the jury is still out.

All significant battles are fought within self.

Significant new peer-reviewed research has cast even more doubt on the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming.