We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.
Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.
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.
After many, many years of decline in defense spending across Europe and Canada, in 2016, we saw the first significant increase. We still have a long way to go, but at least European allies have kind of started move in the right direction.
The universe and everything in it will someday pass away and be made new by the Creator. Therefore, the events of today that seem so important are not really very significant, except for those matters that will survive the end of the universe.
It is better to be unsuccessful pursuing a significant goal that being successful attaining an insignificant one.
They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again.
When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.
Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.
Food is a fairly significant aspect of my life. I have struggled mightily with food. With my weight. And I'm conscious of it. So I have a sensitivity to people who struggle with their weight.
You could really belong to a group of people and with other people, you could really make some significant changes - through the electoral process, of course, by registering people to vote, and by supporting good people who were running for office. For me, it was like I had found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.
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.
We are unique among advanced countries that we don't have universal health care. My hope was that I was able to get a hundred percent of people health care while I was president. We didn't quite achieve that, but we were able to get 20 million people health care who didn't have it before. And obviously some of the progress we made is now imperiled because there's still a significant debate taking place in the United States. For those 20 million people, their lives have been better.
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.
Your life isn't about the big break, it's about one significant life transforming step at a time.
I'M SIGNIFICANT!!!. . . Say's the dust speck.
A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend.
One of the reasons the deficit got as big as it did, frankly, was because of the economic slowdown, the fall-off in deficits, the terrorist attacks. A significant chunk was taken out of the economy by what happened after the attacks of 911.
In God's eyes the most significant is often the most hidden.