Quotes of: Significant-other Keyword

Sussman had the ability to seize facts and lock them in his memory, where they remained poised for instants recall. More than any other editor at the Post, or Bernstein and Woodward, Sussman became a walking compendium of Watergate knowledge, a refer...

All the President's Men

There are doubtless those who would wish to lock up all those who suspected of terrorist and other serious offences and, in the time-honored phrase, throw away the key. But a suspect is by definition a person whom no offence has been proved. Suspicio...

The Rule of Law

Whiteness is not a culture. There is Irish culture and Italian culture and American culture - the latter, as Albert Murray pointed out, a mixture of the Yankee, the Indian, and the Negro (with a pinch of ethnic salt); there is youth culture and drug ...

Race Traitor

In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her: the novels. She had read any number of them, from Fielding to Thomas Mann. They not only offered the pos...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Mrs. Clinton, speaking to a black church audience on Martin Luther King Day last year, did describe President George W. Bush as treating the Congress of the United States like 'a plantation,' adding in a significant tone of voice that 'you what I mea...

Christopher Hitchens

You’re better looking than me. You’re more intelligent than me. Your personality is more likable than mine. You make more money than me. Your family is nicer than mine. Your religion is better than mine. You’ve seen more beaches than me. You’...

Jason Daniel Chaplin

Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still farther, or he can choose otherwise. The choice is his responsibility, and his alone. There is no automatism that will carry him upward ...

The Meaning of Evolution: A Study of the History of Life and of Its Significance for Man, Revised Edition

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.

The Poverty of Historicism

The significance of life is living.

What are You Doing with Your Life: Teen Books on Living Volume 1

Intensity of connection, Depth of emotion, Unified thoughts, No doubts in the significance of you.

Wantin

The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.

Barry Sanders

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

T. S. Eliot

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

Pierre Bourdieu

Revealing water in significant quantities on the Moon could truly be a turning point in space exploration.

Peter Diamandis

The symbolic significance of individual athletes' achievements has sometimes proved more productive than the negotiations of diplomats or politicians.

Richard Attias

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books.

Richard Flanagan

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

Susan Sontag

Watching a child first learn to crawl on a carpet somehow has more significance to you as you get a little older. Perhaps it is that you have suffered more.

Tobin Bell

It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing.

Jeff Zucker