Significance Quotes · Page 8

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

— Edith Wharton

The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.

— Marilyn French

If there is a God and all he says is true then what you do has eternal consequences. Is that significance enough…

— Mike Messerli

Each person is born with an infinite power, against which no earthly force is of the slightest significance.

— Neville Goddard

My grandmothers apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing.

— Arnon Goldfinger

A person of character seeks true happiness in living a life of purpose and meaning, placing a higher value on significance than…

— Michael Josephson

“You will never become of any significance for God, unless you give all you have to perform some tremendous work for Him.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.

— Leo Tolstoy

The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them…

— Wilhelm Wundt

Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief…

— Benjamin Tucker

Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I noticed long ago that Amin has the tendency to concentrate power in his own hands but I did not attach any…

— Nur Muhammad Taraki

“Put another way, the love of God, when taken hold of, frees us from any need to be noticed, to make a…

— Scott Sauls

Again Creb grunted. It was the usual noncommittal comment used by men when responding to a woman. It carried only enough meaning…

— Jean M. Auel

You can't ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence. That's all anything ever is. Nothing more than coYou can't…

— Scott Neustadter

Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never…

— Douglas Adams

Bombay as a confident, welcoming city that takes in a million new people a year, that those who want to harm the…

— Suketu Mehta

How can we appraise a proposal if the terms hurled at our ears can mean anything or nothing, and change their significance…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

A multidisciplinary study group ... estimated that it would be 1980 before developments in artificial intelligence make it possible for machines alone…

— J. C. R. Licklider

Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.…

— Calvin Coolidge

The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Much is missed if we have eyes only for the bright colors. Nature should be viewed without distinction... She makes no choice…

— Eliot Porter

What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human…

— Carl Sagan

Perfidy and brutal force thwarted opportunities for calling President Wilson's Arbitral Award to life. Nevertheless, its significance is not to be underestimated:…

— Serzh Sargsyan

Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance.

— Anonymous

The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.

— Helen Keller

Evolution may explain some features of the moral law, but it can't explain why it should have any real significance.

— Richard Dawkins

To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a…

— Frederic Manning

Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.

— J. R. Moehringer

It is impossible to underestimate the significance of your today's choices

— Gautama Buddha

Since the design of the movement is paramount, shape, for me, should have no significance.

— George Rickey

Its not of significance whether people say bad or good words about you, your own judgment is what really matters.

— Barmaki

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

— Kanye West

If we discount the account of creation, we remove the significance of Christmas.

— Ken Ham

Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.

— Peter Drucker

Life is too short to waste time on things that have no lasting significance.

— T. B. Joshua

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.

— Norman Vincent Peale

The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.

— Jesse Jackson, Jr

“It is a good thing to live long but it is much more important to make a difference in life by living…

— Sunday Adelaja