Significant Quotes

I am a firm believer that you don't do anything significant by yourself. Again, maybe there are exceptions. There's the Picasso or the Mozart.

On issues like Ukraine, on issues like Syria, we've had very significant differences [with Russia].

The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.

We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.

You know, I'm a physician. I like to diagnose things. And, you know, I've diagnosed some pretty, pretty significant issues that I think a lot of people resonate with.

I want to ask you to place a significant seed in God's soil and see it work for you. Just as a special sacrifice was offered on the Day of Atonement, let me ask you to bring a very special offering.

A significant fraction of thru-hikers reach Katahdin, then turn around and start back to Georgia. They just can't stop walking, which kind of makes you wonder.

Values must be demonstrated through behaviors, but they are truly significant when they represent the beliefs of an entire organization.

I think if you're going to get a tattoo, it should be significant, especially when it's all the way up your arms and your body.

Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP, and it may prove to be the mountain-too-high for Barack Obama's campaign.

Ontario's gas tax rebates and infrastructure programs help create sustainable transit to improve quality of life for Ottawa residents with significant environmental benefits.

I went along with it, and wanted to appoint a significant figure in Malcolm Fraser. I didn't have high hopes that they'd be able to do anything, but something was worth a try.

As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

In the scriptures the term light-mindedness means making light of sacred things or not taking seriously those eternally significant things that should be treated with reverence (D&C 84:54).

The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.

The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn is a very significant one.

Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.

I think some of the most significant things happen in history when you get the right people in the right place at the right time and I think that's what we are.

I think it's fair to say there's some significant portion of the community that doesn't feel they can take the Charlotte police at their word.

If Donald Trump loses badly, it could mean the end of the GOP as one of the two significant parties.

It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.

It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who.

He (Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours.

The important thing for me as an educator is how to - how do we unsettle the minds and touch the souls of significant numbers of young people who don't read texts or don't read my texts.

What you do is take the power [popularity] gives you - which is very temporary and minor but significant - and use it. The danger is that you use it on a vanity project that no one wants to watch.

Tech executives have historically been owners of significant portions of their companies' stock so there is a propensity for them to diversify as a rule.

I do think John Kerry has tried awfully hard to work with Russia and others to have a lasting, significant cease-fire.

The capacity to recognize significant factors in a given situation is limited by the context that arises from the level of consciousness of the observer.

Pakistan are very keen to carry out the operations themselves. And there's significant effort on the part of the US and other countries to provide assistance that can enable Pakistan to do just that.

I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.

There are still substantial areas of disagreement, .. you simply have to look at the public statements to see there is a significant gap.

Oh, yes. I mean to marry him. But not because I want him to give me a life. I want to marry him to share the life I already have. The difference, I think you will find, is a significant one.

The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an impressive figure.

Drugs have played no significant factor in my life.

I can't think of a time when we've had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian.

Would do well to slow down a little... focus on the significant... and truly see the things that matter most.

My administration's policies on regulatory reform, tax reform, trade policies, will return significant manufacturing jobs to our country.

When we get hung up on the non-essentials, the essentials have no opportunity to make a significant appearance.

I know the war in Iraq is controversial in the States, but for us in the Middle East it has made a great and significant impact.

Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.

It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.

Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.

Ultimately, my more significant agreement is with a virtue tradition that features Aristotle and Descartes.

Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons.

You can't have a movie with a group of people that are significant players in the story, that push forward the plot, without introducing at least one or two of them.

Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

Whether or not you liked George W. Bush, there was no doubt about what position he was going to take, and that's what endeared him to a significant segment of American society.

The first sexual experience is a significant imprinting of attention.