Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“But the significance test that scientists use doesn’t measure importance.” — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died. — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
Major decisions of generational significance aren't given, they're earned. — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Nothing of significance was ever achieved by an individual acting alone. Look below the surface and you will find that all seemingly… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance. — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance. — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have carefully… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
The major concern ...was to create a monument which would have lasting significance and would be a landmark of our time... Neither… — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
If Zen is approached with the usual mental attitude, it will seem quite incomprehensible. Our average Western intellectuality would consider its paradoxical… — Robert Linssen Copy Share Image
Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
Imagine a pantomime directed by Quentin Tarantino, where villains are booed, heroes are blood-stained, the body-count is high, the entertainment pulsating, the… — Henry Winter Copy Share Image
works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The Kennedy assassination has demonstrated that most of the major events of world significance are masterfully planned and orchestrated by an elite… — L. Fletcher Prouty Copy Share Image
In fact, the influence of Schoenberg may be overwhelming on his followers, but the significance of his art is to be identified… — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
The significance of God, cause, number, substance or soul consists, as James asserts, in nothing but the tendency of the given concept… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
I find it interesting that authors of fantasy and science fiction novels are rarely asked if their books are based on their… — Malinda Lo Copy Share Image
Many things happen that we don't know the significance of until a little bit later. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that. — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
“Its really hard to recall the day you became friends with special people.” — michael bassey johnson Copy Share Image
Everything you do has certain significance, a certain weight. I think there is a film in everyone. — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
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