Significant Quotes

1199 Significant quotes by 946 unique authors

The more we serve our fellowmen in appropriate ways, the more substance there is to our souls. We become more significant individuals as we serve… — Spencer W. Kimball
Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen. — W. P. Kinsella
Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys ought to be… — Bess Streeter Aldrich
There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes. — Leo Tolstoy
I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home. — Stephen Covey
I find that anything culturally significant that happened before '93 I associate with the decade before it. In fact, Oregon Trail is one of a… — Sloane Crosley
Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable… — David Foster Wallace
There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in… — Madeleine Albright
Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a manner of speaking.… — Diane Setterfield
Life is short, and potential studies infinite. We have a much better chance of accomplishing something significant when we follow our passionate interests and work… — Stephen Jay Gould
But in some ways, the most significant choices one makes in life are done for reasons that are not all that dramatic, not earth-shaking at… — Marya Hornbacher
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers… — W. Somerset Maugham
A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice:… — Eckhart Tolle
You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have… — Sebastian Horsley
A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it. — Kelley Armstrong
We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the… — Julio Cortazar
Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects. But now a significant change is… — John Twelve Hawks
There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that. — Raymond Chandler
I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the… — David Sedaris
In February, the overcast sky isn’t gloomy so much as neutral and vague. It’s a significant factor in the common experience of depression among the… — Charles Baxter
Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost… — Sam Harris
There's a kind of Ah-ha! Somebody at least for a moment feels about something or sees something the way that I do. It doesn't happen… — David Foster Wallace

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