Quotes of: Significant-other Keyword

My grandmother's apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing.

Arnon Goldfinger

A more significant phase should mean serious political dialogue.

Aung San Suu Kyi

NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.

Jenny Shipley

There is a twilight zone in our hearts that we ourselves cannot see. Even when we know quite a lot about ourselves-our gifts and weaknesses, our ambitions and aspirations, our motives and our drives-large parts of ourselves remain in the shadow of co...

Henri J.M. Nouwen

The notion that evil is non-rational is a more significant claim for Eagleton than at first appears, because he is (in this book [ ] as in others of his recent 'late period' prolific burst) anxious to rewrite theology: God (whom he elsewhere tells us...

Anthony C. Grayling

A name is a powerful thing. It sets one apart and gives significance.

Origin

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

On Photography

It's very hard for me to think about my songs and attribute some significance to them.

Jimmy Webb

The autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.

John Sergeant Wise

To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.

Perry Nodelman

There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority.

Millard Fuller

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

Michael Medved

I didn't dig it out, it was given to me. They thought it was significant, they gave me the name and I used it.

Robert Novak

it is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony.

Mary Anne Radmacher

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated - Japan's attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

Noam Chomsky

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

Noam Chomsky

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.

Norman Borlaug

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

Herbert Read

Whatever the changes, from one era to the next, Pocono has maintained its character and significance to me, and it always will. My family shares this sentiment.

Mario Andretti

Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their family's income, it is a family issue.

Rosa DeLauro

All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.

Cate Blanchett