Significance Quotes · Page 37

Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last weeks winner of Have I Got News…

— Jonathan Dimbleby

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order…

— Eudora Welty

…I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things…

— William Faulkner

We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do... forgetting that none of these verbs have…

— Evelyn Underhill

The hypothesis I wish to advance is thatthe language of morality is ingrave disorder.... What we possess, if this is true, are…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

It is difficult to grasp the immensity and significance of the extreme reverence paid to the Goddess over a period of (at…

— Merlin Stone

Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

— Benjamin Cardozo

I firmly believe that the purpose of life is not this life. It is to equip us, whatever our role is going…

— Max Lucado

Self-development is the only thing that keeps a person from burning out. We all have many needs - the need for certainty,…

— Tony Robbins

The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or…

— Helen Keller

I am convinced that if the market system were the result of deliberate human design, and if the people guided by the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Of what significance the light of day, if it is not the reflection of an inward dawn?--to what purpose is the veil…

— Henry David Thoreau

When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for,…

— Tullian Tchividjian

Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

— Charles Kingsley

The fear and anxiety that infect humanity today are the results of this degradation of values, this ignorance of what is of…

— Sathya Sai Baba

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may…

— Diane Johnson

And if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it's probably because I'm looking at them in…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China,…

— Alan Cranston

“Science is an organized pursuit of triviality. Art is a casual pursuit of significance. Let's keep it in perspective.”

— Vera Nazarian

The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

— Gregory Maguire

The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.

— Umberto Eco

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

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

We do not deceive ourselves that we are engaging in an activity that is anything but debilitating, dangerous, euphoric, kinesthetic, expensive, frivolously…

— Allen Steck

Our crimes, for which we are responsible: as taxpayers, for failing to provide massive reparations, for granting refuge and immunity to the…

— Noam Chomsky