Significant Quotes · Page 19

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.

— Lawrence Lessig

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

— Dalai Lama

By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.

— Alan Greenspan

Cybersecurity continues to be a significant threat to public and private enterprises, governments and individuals.

— Phil Scott

Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.

— Cassandra Clare

Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.

— Emily Oster

However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is…

— Peter Quennell

I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.

— Peter Garrett

(1) The more thoroughly a photographer explores his subject with the camera (i.e., the more pictures he makes), the more he sees…

— Andreas Feininger

The European Union and environmental advocacy groups use global warming hysteria to advance their own special agendas. The European Union recognizes any…

— Jay H. Lehr

Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know- they'd trade it all to know they've been seen, and acknowledged, that…

— Dave Eggers

he asked if i wouldn't like to live completely without problems, say in greece maybe, nice climate, everything provided? i say: "when…

— William S. Burroughs

Democrats are making it clear that they intend to use our economic crisis to rush through their longtime liberal goals without public…

— Jim DeMint

It turns out that human beings are hard-wired to have conversations impact them in such profound and significant ways that it can…

— Judith E. Glaser

Cold-turkey deficit reduction would cause a significant recession. A recent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that going headlong over the…

— Christina Romer

I've evolved enough that I've learned to not subject others to the fallout of my own unhappiness. I think that's a significant,…

— Keith Murray

Three of the last four [elections], '06, '08, and '12, were disastrous for Republicans. And they were years in which we just…

— Ted Cruz

And human instinct is ancient and reliable, utterly mysterious and possibly capable of great genius. I believe that refined, fluent instincts are…

— Augusten Burroughs

We come here because we too feel a responsibility for the human community. To preserve and develop a human quality of life…

— Thomas Berry

We think the problem is out there, when the problem is really in here - who we are and how we experience…

— Gordon Hempton

I just think, realistically, there's a lot of room outside the Trump populist right and the Bernie-Sanders-Elizabeth-Warren populist left. There are a…

— David Brooks

I do think that people have an obligation to give back but that doesn't necessarily mean that you give back just the…

— Steve Case

A significant number of people believe tribal people still live and dress as they did 300 years ago. During my tenure as…

— Wilma Mankiller

There are significant relationships, of course, between wanting things and caring about them..The notion of caring is in large part constructed out…

— Anonymous

I love to be loved. Whether it is by a significant other or an acquaintance, I get it.

— Luke James

I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls…

— Stephen Covey

It's very difficult to put in the work unless you believe that what you're doing is significant in some way.

— Theodora Goss

THE VOICE: (to BEAUTY) Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The capacity to recognize significant factors in a given situation is limited by the context that arises from the level of consciousness…

— David Hawkins

This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish…

— John Helm

Of those hundreds of lawsuits [for Donald Trump], we're told 30 are significant. There's pressure for him to settle that suit before…

— George Stephanopoulos

I am inspired by the lives of good and faithful women. From the beginning of time, the Lord has placed significant trust…

— Margaret D. Nadauld

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

— Jonathan Evison

Through the Fellows Program, Acumen Fund prepares future global leaders with the tools necessary to drive significant social change.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an…

— Denise Duhamel

Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to…

— Jerry Saltz

It is a significant gamble to assume that troops in our U.K. Armed Forces would volunteer for a Scottish Defence Force.

— Philip Hammond

Supporting and investing in local economic projects has always been a significant part of my agenda.

— Ned Lamont

They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again.

— Yasunari Kawabata

For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.

— John Maynard Keynes