Quotes of: Significant-other Keyword

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

Edith Wharton

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

Clifford Geertz

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.

Christina Romer

Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Edward de Bono

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

Bob Inglis

Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.

Bianca Jagger

New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years.

Jenny Shipley

Furthermore, it is significant that the marked characteristics of this race are being here emphasized most.

Josiah Strong

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

Jim Harrison

Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.

Jerry Saltz

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

Joan D. Vinge

This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant.

Irving Langmuir

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.

Norman Cousins

When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests.

Aldrich Ames

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

W. H. Auden

A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.

Willard Gaylin

There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.

Yuri Milner

On the lowest level, this loss of soul turns the man into the hen-pecked husband who lives with his wife as though she were his mother upon whom he is solely dependent in all things having to do with emotions and the inner life. But even the relative...

The Fear of the Feminine: And Other Essays on Feminine Psychology

A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.

Dime Store Magic

Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close