Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family… — Gabrielle Union Copy Share Image
If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
Nothing of spiritual significance comes without sacrifice. Your spirituality will always be measured by the size of your sacrifice. — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you… — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
“The significance of the rose? I thought. Who gives a shit? What's the significance of the white tulips? That was a question… — John Green Copy Share Image
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us,… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“This proves the significance of individualism; being able to face the music, to embrace it, and then create something beautiful from it.… — Nadège Richards Copy Share Image
Egyptian pyramids or obelisks – seemed to be the basis of the great memorials that have kept their significance and dignity across… — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
Everyone has a bookplate these days, and the collectors are after it. The fool and his bookplate are soon parted. To distribute… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
I think sometimes you just need to play in this league. As a rookie coming out of college, you don't understand the… — Michael Cooper Copy Share Image
Man's Chief purpose is the creation and preservation of values; that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Beauty, however, must here be understood in its original meaning: as the glow of the true and the good irradiating from every… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't say you don't know! It's because of Kim. Meaning there's no photo that I would have put up by myself, or… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
But what had lasting significance were not the miracles themselves but Jesus' love. Jesus raised his friend Lazarus from the dead, and… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Now, some people might look at something and let it go by, because they don't recognize the pattern and the significance. It's… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Logical investigations can obviously be a useful tool for philosophy. They must, however, be informed by a sensitivity to the philosophical significance… — Saul Kripke Copy Share Image
I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for… — Christiaan Barnard Copy Share Image
“For every seed of godliness, kindness and justice sowed, there will be surely be a harvest of goodness, significance and greatness.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Copy Share Image
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor,… — Om Puri Copy Share Image
It seems to me that oftentimes in young relationships once there's a problem of some significance then it's almost like they're both… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Whatever the changes, from one era to the next, Pocono has maintained its character and significance to me, and it always will.… — Mario Andretti Copy Share Image
Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he's something innately superior, something eternal--and lives, is… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“Success is achieved when we add value to ourselves. Significance is when we add value to other. Success is attracted to people… — Mlungisi Simelane Copy Share Image
“The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time,… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
President Obama can talk about having no grand schemes and making no big gains, but the reality is he can't get anything… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
You don't have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories, but Christians say we… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Worship is of fundamental significance to the life of the individual and to the corporate life of the church, yet we rarely… — Carl Tuttle Copy Share Image
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image