Significant Quotes · Page 50

We live in a world of breathtaking material plenty. That has freed hundreds of millions of people from day-to-day struggles and liberated…

— Anonymous

One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in…

— W. H. Auden

Marijuana legalization's income may help fund education, prevention and treatment programs for harder drugs. What's clear is that the four-decade-old U.S.-backed war…

— Andres Oppenheimer

A significant number of petroleum geologists believe that we will reach the global maximum of petroleum extraction within this decade or that…

— William J. Clinton

A significant contribution to science pedagogy and to the scholarship of teaching and learning. ... [W]ill be of interest to researchers in…

— David W. Oxtoby

I don't think the human effect [of climate change] is significant compared to the natural effect.

— Harrison Schmitt

The current market ecosystem is not sustainable, and significant changes are coming one way or another.

— John Ramsay

There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.

— Raymond Chandler

I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur.

— Tracy Chapman

I think some of the most significant things happen in history when you get the right people in the right place at…

— Chokwe Lumumba

I will be as careful as I can in making the most significant decisions any president and commander-in-chief can make about sending…

— Hillary Clinton

The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of…

— Ayn Rand

Let's take something like antidepressant medications. There's decent science saying it has an effect, but it's shockingly small after you control for…

— Steven C. Hayes

The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact…

— Ernest Lawrence

Experience has shown repeatedly that a mathematical theory with a rich internal structure generally turns out to have significant implications for the…

— William Thurston

Our species in general had grown accustomed to pain and adversity through millennia of struggle . . . we were only recently…

— Gay Hendricks

The important thing for me as an educator is how to - how do we unsettle the minds and touch the souls…

— Cornel West

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

— Will Durant

I always wonder: the images that hit your brain when you're young are so significant, because there's not that much information in…

— Rob Zombie

My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps,…

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

When the Kyoto Protocol enters into the force tomorrow, the world will take a significant and long-awaited first step towards stemming global…

— Nancy Pelosi

Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than…

— Vera Wang

Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do, it costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of…

— John Carmack

I'm thinking about the idea of poetic license. People say that about certain writers: "Oh, the grammar sucks, but it's just the…

— Jimenez Lai

I also got encouragement from my teachers at primary school but one person in particular who had a significant impact on my…

— St. Lucia