What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The only reason baseball's numerical touchstones have any significance is that most players - even the game's greats - peter out just… — Stephen Rodrick Copy Share Image
The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver… — Edward Mills Purcell Copy Share Image
The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Everyone desires significance but not everyone is ready to go through the process of being ‘pregnant’ with the requirements that would make… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Yes, the electoral struggle [in U.S.S.R.] will be animated. It will proceed around numerous very sharp questions, namely, practical questions having first-rate… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the delusion that the daily is of little significance. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
The way of the martial artist is the way of enduring, surviving and prevailing over all that would destroy him. More than… — Toshitsugu Takamatsu Copy Share Image
We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
Stalin made mistakes. He made mistakes towards us, for example, in 1927. He made mistakes towards the Yugoslavs too. One cannot advance… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
In the 38th chapter of Ezekiel, it says that the land of Israel will come under attack by the armies of the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: "Nothing passes away." I believe that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class. At… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
The United States is a special case, and for me, very interesting. It's studied carefully and we know a lot about it.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The scientific gauge is quantity: space, size, and strength of forces can all be reckoned numerically. The comparable "yardstick" in the traditional… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification. Awareness is silent observation from which there arises understanding without the experiencer and the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important .… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When a legislature decides to steal some of our rights and plans to use police force to accomplish it, what's the real… — H. L. Richardson Copy Share Image
“The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an… — Pierre Simon De Laplace Copy Share Image
It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal…… Great art remains stable and unobscure because the… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
This word "redemption," what is it about this word? Is it tangible? Do you know when it has happened? Is it necessary… — Michael Muhney Copy Share Image
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so… — Gilbert N. Lewis Copy Share Image
Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress. — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance. — George Parsons Lathrop Copy Share Image
If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
We want to hear the story first and let the meaning unfold, rather than to be present with expectations of a certain… — Erving Polster Copy Share Image
Devotion means who you are should merge with what you are doing. Otherwise, whatever your activity may be, it will not be… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Now to understand the significance of chastity within us, we have to know that chastity is the foundation of all dharmas. Unless… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
Significance in life doesn’t come from status, because you can always find somebody who’s got more than you. It doesn’t come from… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically… — Walter Rudolf Hess Copy Share Image
I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
We need to change the focus from celebrating sales at the mall to celebrating the significance of President Washington's birth to the… — Frank Wolf Copy Share Image
It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the… — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image