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
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
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
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
One evening at a hotel in New York I flipped around the television channels. Suddenly there on the public access channel was… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
If travel has taught me nothing more, and it certainly has, it's this: you never know when some trifling incident, utterly without… — S. J. Perelman 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
There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
[Coining the phrase "test of significance"] Critical tests of this kind may be called tests of significance, and when such tests are… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history. ... Without ever relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their… — Hannah Arendt 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
“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
“And yes—scholars might care about the innovative brushwork and use of light, the historical influence and the unique significance in Dutch art.… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a green light… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If you and I go into a store to rob it, and I say "shoot," that's not protected. Like all judicial decisions… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Christian religion seems to have fulfilled its great biological purpose, in so far as we are able to judge. It has… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and… — Michael Lang Copy Share Image
The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
“As for the significance of my nihilism…in a word, it is the foundation of my thoughts. The goal of my activities is… — Mikiso Hane 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
“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
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
“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
Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will… — Rollo May 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
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
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
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
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
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
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