Significant Quotes

Distressed properties are often vacant and in disrepair, and thus sold at significant discounts. As the share of distressed sales grows, home prices fall.

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

We need to have a bigger and more significant role for national parliaments. There is not, in my view, a single European demos.

There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen.

If there's a large move on significant news, either favorable or unfavorable, the stock will usually continue to move in that direction.

Integrated is the expression of knowledge: an assembly is significant in Unity: united are their minds in the silent dynamism of all possibilities.

Once you move in with your significant other, you have to become a combination of each other.

In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They are an analogy for the intellectual of the future.

There is a difference between who is important and who is significant.

Sometimes your personal life is much more significant. Sometimes your work life is more significant. Friends and family, or sometimes the general population, take precedence.

Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.

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

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.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.

This is nothing new. It has proved meritorious because we have gathered significant information on bad guys and only on bad guys over the years.

As you look around the country there are still a significant number of states where their whole school debate is over school funding and we've been focused on the quality debate for most of the '90s.

A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die.

Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic.

Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on others is limited.

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

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

All significant battles are fought within self.

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.

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

A more significant phase should mean serious political dialogue.

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

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.

I now know that I learn by solving problems as they arise. Rarely do we learn significant lessons, or significantly improve, any other way.

It is this third consequence that has been elaborated in greatest detail and has formed one of the most significant pillars of historical capitalism, institutional racism.

The lack of a delete button on the internet is a significant issue.

The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it.

Nothing else is as fulfilling as playing a part in which you are able to have a significant say in the creative process all the way through. How many actors get to do that? It's extremely rare.

Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends.

The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life.

In life's most significant moments we are always alone.

I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than ... intellectual, abstract understanding.

The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain.

If my peers had a significant impact on my music, my music would probably be a lot more popular.

The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around '84 or '85.

The list of non-democratic regimes that have seen significant reforms since 2001 is long and significant.

It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.

A significant minority of senior women I've interviewed say, 'Love the companionship, glad to live with him, but I spent my first marriage picking up after a man and I'm not going to do that anymore.

I try not to think about legacy because it is all ­folly. If you study history, even recent history, you'll find many people who were quite significant in their time but are completely forgotten.