Significant Quotes

1199 Significant quotes by 946 unique authors

We have cellphones and smartphones and iDevices and laptops and the ability to be perpetually connected. We never have to miss anything, significant or insignificant. — Roxane Gay
I used to always make art for girls. That was the thing I did for girls to like me. I did portraits, drawings, letters that… — Cary Fukunaga
Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books. — Richard Flanagan
I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell… — Marshall McLuhan
We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion… — Nigel Short
You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise. — James Newman
And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I… — Ed Rendell
This was a result of a number of factors, but we do know that the messages kids get about the harms of drugs has a… — John Walters
Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those… — Bobby Scott
I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing… — Trevor Dunn
The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the… — James Donald
In 1970 I realized that there was negligible risk from x-rays but many radiographs had poor image quality so that the risk from a false… — John Cameron
For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army, because they are the ones… — John Pomfret
We are seeing significant growth in foreign investment in Germany. — Gerhard Schroder
This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades. — Jerry Costello
We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq. — Michael Scheuer
In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their wages, and leave… — Barney Frank
People were so keen to get investment. In those days, there was quite significant unemployment in Northern Ireland, and that had been the general pattern… — John Hume
More than 50% of significant new regulations that impact on business in the UK now emanate from the EU. — John Hutton
Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a… — Alex Campbell
In my district back in Texas, significant because we have a big solar panel production plant in Keller, Texas, we have a wind turbine plant… — Michael C. Burgess
When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss… — Aldrich Ames
A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it… — Bob Graham
I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then… — Dick Schaap
This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant. — Irving Langmuir

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