“We can hope to grasp the significance of sexuality only by studying it in its concrete manifestations; and then perhaps the meaning… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the… — Susan Stewart Copy Share Image
All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Red certainly is the family color. From my mother and my grandmother, I've learned a lot of little tricks - the significance… — Gracie Gold Copy Share Image
“If you truly want to pursue and achieve the success you were created for, you must recognize the role of vision, the… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I have no word of yours to assure me that our brief friendship held for you the same significance it held for… — Elizabeth George Speare Copy Share Image
I know what a bozo I really am. And it's healthier for me to look at myself as a regular human being… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
There are several books that I have-the Physics of Star Trek, Star Trek and Business, there are manuals on command style and… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When a man makes a poem, makes it, mind you, he takes words as he finds them interrelated about him and composes… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“It should be pointed out that certain correlative concepts retain their meaning, and possibly their foremost significance, if they are referred exclusively… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2)… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“People are going to come into your life, and God is going to use them to help you. To them you’re insignificant… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
No matter what kind of significance leads you do, you learn a lot from doing schlock. The setup's the same, only you… — Tobin Bell Copy Share Image
“A little porch light from a distant farmhouse dimmed, feeling alone and unneeded until his smallest spark of illumination snuffed out entirely.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic,… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Evolution may explain some features of the moral law, but it can't explain why it should have any real significance. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
A person of character seeks true happiness in living a life of purpose and meaning, placing a higher value on significance than… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
There is solemn satisfaction in doing the best you can for eight billion people. Perhaps their lives have no cosmic significance, but… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My grandmothers apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing. — Arnon Goldfinger Copy Share Image
If it is in speaking their word that people, by naming the world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Art of course survives on the walls of private dwellings and corporate offices, but it 'dies' in the sense of losing its… — Julian Young Copy Share Image
Success means using your knowledge and experience to satisfy yourself. Significance means using your knowledge and experience to change the lives of… — Bob Buford Copy Share Image
First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
“The beauty of a mathematical theorem depends a great deal on its seriousness, as even in poetry the beauty of a line… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
I think that the significance of the WNBA is that it has given women a different platform and a different level of… — Anne Donovan Copy Share Image
“You will never become of any significance for God, unless you give all you have to perform some tremendous work for Him.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The meaning, purpose, and significance of our lives are found only by aligning our lives with God's purposes, in lives committed to… — Richard Stearns Copy Share Image
