Quotes on Significant

Killing animals and eating meat have been significant components of human evolution that had a synergistic relationship with other key attributes that have made us human, with larger brains, smaller guts, bipedalism, and language.

Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters.

We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself.

It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.

we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

A man of science rises ever, in seeking truth; and if he never finds it in its wholeness, he discovers nevertheless very significant fragments; and these fragments of universal truth are precisely what constitutes science.

All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking.

If Vancouver did not succeed as Starbucks from '87 on, our entire international business, which is now thousands of stores and a significant amount of growth and profit, may not have existed.

Your life has been intentionally designed by God to have a uniquely significant and eternal impact on the world around you.

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women … that will be a society that works for everyone.

Change your mind about something significant every day.

It is not just a person's physical constitution, their intellegence, their education, or even their social conditioning that enables them to withstand hardship. Much more significant is their inner development. And while some may be able to survive through sheer willpower, the ones who suffer the least are those who have a high degree of patience and courage in the face of adversity.

Literacy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.

I'm sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It's just not the way I roll. I love being a curator and a musicologist. People write me letters and thank me for turning them on to Fred McDowell and Sippie Wallace, and that's partly my job this time around.

I know few significant questions of public policy which can safely be confided to computers. In the end, the hard decisions inescapably involve imponderables of intuition, prudence, and judgment.