“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to; and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't want any colour to be noticeable... I don't want it to operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent...… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
I have never collected an object or figure from Africa or Oceania because of anything curious about it or because of its… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
All peoples are struggling to blast a way through the industrial monopoly of races and nations, but the Negro as a whole… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts… — Klemens von Metternich Copy Share Image
In achieving the depersonalization of childbirth and at the same time solving the problem of pain, our society may have lost more… — Sheila Kitzinger Copy Share Image
My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have… — Pearl Bailey Copy Share Image
I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
The process that I want to call scientific is a process that involves the continual apprehension of meaning, the constant appraisal of… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
To the documentary director the appearance of things and people is only superficial. It is the meaning behind the thing and the… — Paul Rotha Copy Share Image
Civilization - and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
It's necessary to address the concerns and beliefs of those who are taken in by the fraud, or who don't recognize the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Desire is our imprisonment. The man who wants nothing, who is absolutely contented as he is, is free of all bondage. He… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Photography has an amazing ability to capture the fine detail of surface textures. But far too often these intricate patterns are loved… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
I was in Athens for a football match when 9/11 went down, and it was quite spectacular - we went into this… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its… — Jacques Monod 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
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
“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
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
There is solemn satisfaction in doing the best you can for eight billion people. Perhaps their lives have no cosmic significance, but… — Robert A. Heinlein 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
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
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
“This was Beethoven’s great significance, not through form or musical language, but in recalibrating what music was for. Single-handedly he turned it… — Howard Goodall Copy Share Image
When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for,… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
A wedding isn't for the bride and groom, it's for the family and friends. The B. and G. are just props, silly… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
The chief significance of Alpha Phi Alpha lies in its purpose to stimulate, develop, and cement an intelligent, trained leadership in the… — Jewel Copy Share Image
... no scientific worker has a fixed level of significance at which from year to year, and in all circumstances, he rejects… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
