Significant Quotes - page 2

Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence of depression today. Many studies show that depressed patients who stick to a regimen of aerobic exercise improve as much as those treated with medication. (Andrew Weil)
If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it. View quote
Robert B. Parker
But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War. View quote
Joseph Rotblat
Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end. View quote
Joan D. Vinge
There is no significant man-made Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is badly flawed. View quote
John Coleman
Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one. View quote
Emily Oster
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent. View quote
Dalai Lama
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 of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads. View quote
Bobby Scott
Drugs have played no significant factor in my life. View quote
Dennis Brown
When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense. View quote
Don Nickles
Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music. (Peabo Bryson)
The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country. View quote
Randy Neugebauer
It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identification through one's own sensitivity with the suffering of one's fellow human beings. View quote
Rollo May
To my knowledge significant progress has never been born of competition. ... In science, being 'better' than others is of little practical value. Examples of how absurd the idea of scientific competition is are abundant. View quote
Heinrich Rohrer
... but a dying culture invariable exhibits personal rudness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most. View quote
Alain de Botton
I ... thought about societies where exceptional fortunes are built up in industries with very little connection to out sincere and significant needs, industries where it is difficult to escape from the disparity between a seriousness of means and a triviality of ends. View quote
Alain de Botton
You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none. View quote
Brian Mulroney
There are in fact four very significant stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge. View quote
Roger Bacon
A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingent. View quote
Norbert Wiener
[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew. (Margaret Mead)
This blend of musicians on '90 Millas' is historically significant on a number of levels. This is the first and quite possibly the last time that all of these legendary artists will play together on one CD. View quote
Gloria Estefan
A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage-market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years. View quote
Alan Greenspan
While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity. View quote
Alan Greenspan
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. View quote
Marshall McLuhan