Significant Quotes

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. (Edward de Bono)
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. View quote
Walt Whitman
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth. View quote
Norman Cousins
There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. View quote
Steve Ballmer
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. View quote
Susan Sontag
Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries. View quote
Norman Borlaug
Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think. View quote
Pierre Bourdieu
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 order to put food on the family table. Such migrants my violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected. View quote
Madeleine Albright
All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else. (Nicholas Sparks)
There are comparatively few significant inefficiencies in the allocation of the factors of production in traditional agriculture. View quote
Theodore Schultz
Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism. View quote
Angela Carter
The solemn fop significant and budge A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge. View quote
William Cowper
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but. View quote
John Berger
It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too. View quote
Douglas Adams
Are you going to be just kind of a walking monument to a job, or are you going to have some kind of really significant inner life of your own? Because the external things - the job, the house, the this, the that - do not really fill the place inside. View quote
Robertson Davies
No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the rate of human reproduction is too slow and the expense from infant mortality and years of unproductive upkeep of the young make this prohibitively expensive. This relationship is one of the basic causes of the American Civil War, and was even more significant in destroying ancient Rome. View quote
Carroll Quigley
The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn is a very significant one. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity. View quote
Halldór Laxness
How can it be that institutions which serve the common welfare and are extremely significant for its development come into being without a common will directed toward establishing them? (Carl Menger)
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. View quote
Douglas Engelbart
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. View quote
Albert Einstein
One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding. View quote
Andrzej Wajda
I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad. View quote
Nick Cannon