Significant Quotes - Page 3

There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?

What transpires for the least significant member transpires at once for the whole.

I think you're never going to get somewhere ambitious if you don't start out with great ambitions. What I would say is: we got a start. That to me is a very significant thing. Here we were, a historic meeting to talk about climate change.

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find someone whose flaws are the sort you don’t mind. It is futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone who is capable of significant change; that sort of person exists only in our imaginations.

At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.

Many of the most significant moments in our lives come not because it all went right but because it all fell apart

When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of common words.

Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life

Everything happens for a reason, everything is part of a puzzle that, even at the time, if we don't understand the bigger picture, everything has significant role in what's to come in the future.

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

Art is the ability to separate the significant from the insignificant.

To reach any significant goal, you must leave your comfort zone.

In doing that which we most enjoy, we will probably make our most significant contribution to society, and the contribution we make to society determines our rewards.

There is no one insignificant in the purposes of God.

I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.

The most insignificant score is the score at halftime.

It is certainly true that whatever a man may do or say, the most significant thing about him is what he thinks; and significant also is how he came to think it, why he continued to think it, or, if he did not continue, what the influences were which caused him to change his mind.

It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.

Physics is the most fundamental, and least significant, of the sciences.

What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.

Without giving specific names, most of the significant American banks, the larger banks, are bankrupt, totally bankrupt.

In God's eyes the most significant is often the most hidden.