Significance Quotes

A name represents identity, a deep feeling and holds tremendous significance to its owner.

This is one of the few places where architectural significance and historical significance come together.

The significance of life is life itself.

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

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

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.

Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.

I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis.

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.

The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of life, serving as a crucial source of income for earning a living and raising families.

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

Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it.

The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry.

There are several books that I have-the Physics of Star Trek, Star Trek and Business, there are manuals on command style and countless scholarly papers that have been written about the significance of Next Generation.

It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.

The significance of that is that it allows us to bridge the gap between the rainy seasons. It gives us six months' worth of supply, meeting at least up to 25 percent of the region's water demands.

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality." - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher.

Nuclear energy in Iran is a scientific and peaceful activity, being of high significance for the nation.

It's disappointing. I can't deny that. But I have to emphasize the significance of what we're doing. We are disagreeing. We are failing to reach compromises. But we are not killing each other.

In many cultures, the third eye has significance for seeing beyond the immediate and tangible. That's how I approach my clients. I have the ability to see the gold in people and uncover it for that person.

This is my last fight of meaningful significance, ... This is my last fight, outside and in the ring, for what I've always stood up for.

The development of the Caribbean tourism product ranks second to none in significance. This includes, beyond infrastructure, the investment in the human resource capacity of the Caribbean - the glue that holds it all together.

I believe that history will come to judge today's vote as a milestone of enormous significance in the journey towards a new and brighter future in Northern Ireland and on this island as a whole.

Because of my experience being in the inspections and being in the military, I knew the significance of these tapes when I heard them.