It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite… — Alan Brennert Copy Share Image
The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can… — Richard MacDonald Copy Share Image
The most powerful element is that a designer has to reflect the times. So often you can only sense a change, and… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
Yes, the electoral struggle [in U.S.S.R.] will be animated. It will proceed around numerous very sharp questions, namely, practical questions having first-rate… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the delusion that the daily is of little significance. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance… — John French Sloan 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
“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
…I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
When you are so full that there is no emptiness in you, that you have started feeling the significance of the ordinary,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it… — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Copy Share Image
The fact is that there is a profound spiritual hunger in the western world which, for a variety of reasons, its church… — Melanie Phillips Copy Share Image
When we begin to understand the magnitude of [the Messiah's] sacrifice and service to us individually and collectively, we then cannot consider… — Cecil O. Samuelson Copy Share Image
And there is also the paradox that the dominating culture imbues the Indian past with great meaning and significance; it is valued… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues.… — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
Human life has no meaning independent of itself. There is no cosmic force or deity to give it meaning or significance. There… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about,… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Everyone desires significance but not everyone is ready to go through the process of being ‘pregnant’ with the requirements that would make… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The name of mistress instead of wife would be dearer and more honourable for me, only love given freely, rather than the… — Heloise Copy Share Image
The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver… — Edward Mills Purcell Copy Share Image
The only reason baseball's numerical touchstones have any significance is that most players - even the game's greats - peter out just… — Stephen Rodrick Copy Share Image
When our minds really catch hold of the significance of Jesus' atonement, the world's hold on us loosens. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The competitors, like Commodore and Kaypro, were all doing speeds and feeds, whereas Steve always wanted things like “What is the significance… — Steve Hayden Copy Share Image
Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically… — Walter Rudolf Hess Copy Share Image
I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
Significance in life doesn’t come from status, because you can always find somebody who’s got more than you. It doesn’t come from… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
We want to hear the story first and let the meaning unfold, rather than to be present with expectations of a certain… — Erving Polster Copy Share Image
If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image