Top 100 Most Significant Quotes
#1. When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.
Herman Hesse
#2. This [Judge Samuel Alito] may be one of the most significant or consequential nominations that the Senate will vote on since I've been here in the last three decades.
Joe Biden
#3. All of my most significant moments somehow involved music. It's like my life was a John Hughes film and somebody had to put together the perfect soundtrack.
Caprice Crane
#4. You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.
Joel Fuhrman
#5. The most significant life is the one lived on the basis of a personal sense of justice and the desire to see justice realized everywhere.
Mas Oyama
#6. I feel one of the most significant honors a player can have in his sport is to have his number retired. Certainly for me to have that at Tennessee, it's with great pride.
Peyton Manning
#7. Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#8. The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.
Noam Chomsky
#9. If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#10. [The New World Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United States to change it's perceptions.
Henry A. Kissinger
#11. What's God saying to you now? "All things are possible to him who worries?" No. "All things are possible to him who attempts to work it out?" No. "All things are possible to him who believes.
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Charles R. Swindoll
#12. I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan.
Dick Schaap
#13. We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
#14. Fairness is one of the most significant traits in wisdom, the fairer you are, the wiser you become.
Pearl Zhu
#15. The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around '84 or '85.
Boy George
#16. Worry is the most significant factor that relates to the root of negative thinking.
Zig Ziglar
#17. From my birth when they went undetected, to my baptism where they upstaged the priest, to my troubled adolescence when they didn't do much of anything and then did everything at once, my genitals have been the most significant thing that ever happened to me.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#18. When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain.
Marilynne Robinson
#19. The death of Osama bin Laden marks the most significant development in our fight against al-Qa'ida. I salute President Obama ... in achieving this major accomplishment ... The death of Osama bin Laden is historic.
Nancy Pelosi
#21. Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals choose the way they think.
Martin Seligman
#22. Many people aren't aware of the teachings of Elijah Muhammad who taught some of our most significant conscious, black thinkers of our times. "He
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#24. If you step back from it and really think about what the mass media does on a global scale, the most significant thing it does is coordinate behaviour.
Daniel Pinchbeck
#25. One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one
Clifford Geertz
#26. It seems that the most significant events in our lives happen while we're worried about something else happening.
Richard Paul Evans
#27. There is something important you should know: the most significant examples of great work, the most poignant, the most inspiring, the ones we know would take your breath away, we can't tell you about. They haven't happened yet. They're yours.
David Sturt
#28. More people more accepting of civil unions and gay marriage, which our pollster said was the most significant change they've seen on any social issue. So, this country is changing in a way.
Norah O'Donnell
#29. Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward De Bono
#30. The important papers the Founders left us were the most significant writings in recorded history after the Holy Books, a magic trek for peace and guidance in times of trouble, a forgotten and often ignored dimension of the Nation founding.
George Sorbane
#31. To be a Christian means you become a part of the most significant story the world has ever heard. You don't become part of that without an ongoing questioning of what it means to become part of that.
Stanley Hauerwas
#32. Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.
Thomas S. Monson
#33. The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions.
William J. Johnston
#34. The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
Bashar Al-Assad
#35. My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather, in whose house I lived during the first 10 years of my childhood, and later my stepfather.
Isabel Allende
#36. Guilt is fundamentally a depressant. It squelches any feeling of well-being. It robs us of peace. It torments our souls. It is probably the most significant barrier to real joy. Thus, when our guilt is removed, joy floods our souls.
R.C. Sproul
#37. Unfortunately, the most significant moments of our lives are often unpleasant.
Andrea Cremer
#38. Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.
Baruj Benacerraf
#39. I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.
Judy Chicago
#40. We can all make a difference in the lives of others in need, because it is the most simple of gestures that make the most significant of differences.
Miya Yamanouchi
#41. I think the most significant moment at a wedding is when you say "I do" and when you do the first dance.
Tyrese Gibson
#42. The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself ... Love of oneself becomes love of the species. Conscience is pointed to the future, whispering permission to reach beyond the safety net of our ordinary and finite human existence.
Louise J. Kaplan
#43. Perhaps the most significant thing George Lucas did in creating 'Star Wars' was to fictionalize the Tao - to spark a universe where we can talk about the Force in objective terms and show it in direct action.
Matthew Stover
#44. You know we just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they're happening. Back then I thought, well, there'll be other days. I didn't realize that that was the only day.
Moonlight Graham
#45. Cows' milk protein may be the single most significant chemical carcinogen to which humans are exposed.
T. Colin Campbell
#46. Leonard Bernstein was probably the most significant formative influence on me - he was such an encompassing musician. I spent my teenage years absorbing him, and my other interests stemmed off of that. Bernstein led me to Sondheim and to Gershwin, and Sondheim led me to listening to Joni Mitchell.
Jason Robert Brown
#47. In 1922 Woolf met the writer Vita Sackville-West, who was to join Vanessa Bell and Leonard Woolf as the most significant people in her life.
Jane Goldman
#48. I would say the most significant difference between modern-era receivers and previous receivers is the ones who were in my generation or earlier had to get a job after they got through playing. Today's player doesn't.
Steve Largent
#49. The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles in Egypt, but the most significant single thing it did under Mubarak was to guarantee an Islamist victory once he left the scene.
Elliott Abrams
#50. Another area where we can do better is in promoting partnerships. The proliferation of diplomatic partnerships, in my view, is one of the most significant strategic trends regionally and worldwide.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
#51. I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position.
Charles R. Swindoll
#52. How we preserve time for family is one of the most significant issues we face in most cultures.
Quentin L. Cook
#53. In this 21st century world, some of our country's most significant exports and imports extend beyond goods and services: They also include innovation, knowledge, discovery, and healing.
Kathleen Sebelius
#54. The most efficient action, the most significant testimony to nonviolence, is living a life in which there is no violence-showing that such a life is possible, and even not more difficult than a life of gain, nor more unpleasant than a life of pleasure, nor less natural than an 'ordinary' life.
Lanza Del Vasto
#55. The most significant thing about the Monkees as a pop phenomenon is that we were the only TV show about young adults that did not feature a wiser, older person.
Peter Tork
#56. I already knew that I had the ability to free myself from hatred, and I viewed this as my most significant conquest.
Ingrid Betancourt
#57. 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.
Jonathan Sacks
#58. The most significant way you can edify another person is to see them accurately as the same as you, listen to them, and honor their right to their own thoughts and feelings.
Kimberly Giles
#59. It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.
Alex Carey
#60. As the Only Begotten Son of the Father in the flesh, Jesus inherited divine attributes. He was the only person ever born into mortality who could perform this most significant and supernal act.
James E. Faust
#61. During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our national life. With NAFTA and the Internet and big-box stores selling cheap goods from China, the line between national and international began to blur.
Noah Feldman
#62. Here is a most significant fact-the subconscious mind takes any orders given it in a spirit of absolute FAITH, and acts upon those orders, although the orders often have to be presented over and over again, through repetition, before they are interpreted by the subconscious mind.
Napoleon Hill
#63. Eating is a genuine need, continuous from our first day to our last, amounting over time to our most significant statement of what we are made of and what we have chosen to make of our connection to home ground.
Barbara Kingsolver
#64. Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.
Anton Chekhov
#65. During 30 years of earning my daily bread as a writer I have learned many lessons about our craft. The most significant of those lessons is that I still have many lessons to learn about out craft.
H.P. Oliver
#66. Humanity finds itself in the midst of the world. In the midst of all other creatures humanity is the most significant and yet the most dependent upon the others.
Hildegard Of Bingen
#67. If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.
Pat Boone
#68. The most significant and alarming consequence of early maturation is an increased risk for breast cancer in adulthood.
Joel Fuhrman
#69. Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
Karl Popper
#70. One of the most significant characteristics of healthy self esteem is that it is the state of one who is not at war either with himself or with others.
Nathaniel Branden
#71. When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual transformation that they will encounter.
Allan Hamilton
#72. Many of the most significant moments in our lives come not because it all went right but because it all fell apart
Rob Bell
#73. A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It's almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.
Alain De Botton
#74. One of the most significant barriers to progress is the lack of effective leadership.
Ken Jennings
#75. Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
Edward De Bono
#76. I have found that the most significant experiences of our lives rarely come when we're expecting them and oftentimes when we're not even paying attention.
Richard Paul Evans
#77. The most significant bands I played in when I first got to New York were Bobby Watson's band, Roy Hargrove's first band, Benny Golson's band, Benny Green's trio, and probably the most significant out of all of those, for me personally, was playing in Freddie Hubbard's band.
Christian McBride
#78. It is this third consequence that has been elaborated in greatest detail and has formed one of the most significant pillars of historical capitalism, institutional racism.
Immanuel Wallerstein
#79. The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#80. The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.
Stephen Covey
#81. One of the most significant lessons Jesus taught his disciples was to stop looking for God's life in the regimen of rituals and rules. He came not to refurbish religion, but to offer them a relationship.
Jake Colsen
#82. But in some ways, the most significant choices one makes in life are done for reasons that are not all that dramatic, not earth-shaking at all; often enough, the choices we make are, for better or for worse, made by default.
Marya Hornbacher
#83. Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.
W.P. Kinsella
#84. The respect for human rights is one of the most significant advantages of a free and democratic nation in the peaceful struggle for influence, and we should use this good weapon as effectively as possible.
Jimmy Carter
#85. In life's most significant moments we are always alone.
Paulo Coelho
#86. The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.
Daniel Kahneman
#87. I actually think that working in the federal government, or state or local, is one of the most significant things that a technical person can do.
Megan Smith
#89. The most important hour is always the present.
The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now.
The most necessary work is always love.
Meister Eckhart
#90. What seems most significant to me about our movement [Impressionism] is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#91. The most significant thing is public participation. That assures the Afghan public that our promises are not empty.
Ashraf Ghani
#92. It is certainly true that whatever a man may do or say, the most significant thing about him is what he thinks; and significant also is how he came to think it, why he continued to think it, or, if he did not continue, what the influences were which caused him to change his mind .
Albert J. Nock
#93. Always the most revealing thing about the Church is her idea of God, just as her most significant message is what she says about Him or leaves unsaid, for her silence is often more eloquent than her speech.
A.W. Tozer
#94. I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
Jim Harrison
#95. It is the teacher - what the teacher knows and can do - that is the most significant factor in student achievement.
Harry Wong
#96. Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.
Rajneesh
#97. It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
Soren Kierkegaard
#98. The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days.
Sue Monk Kidd
#99. In doing that which we most enjoy, we will probably make our most significant contribution to society, and the contribution we make to society determines our rewards.
Earl Nightingale
#100. I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.
Stephen R. Covey
