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  • For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.

    W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”
  • A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result.

    Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2006). “God Will Make a Way: What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do”, p.210, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • The function of president in France is one of significant symbolic value; it can't be compared with that of prime minister or cabinet member. Everything you do, everything you say - but also what you don't say - suddenly has meaning. That might sound quite formidable or even stressful, but I think it is a product of the history of this role.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • The U.S. liberated Iraq from a tyrant. I think the Iraqi people owe the American people a huge debt of gratitude, and I believe most Iraqis express that. I mean, the people understand that we've endured great sacrifice to help them. That's the problem here in America. They wonder whether or not there is a gratitude level that's significant enough in Iraq.

  • One significant thing that you can do for your children is to invest some time into taking them out into nature.

    Love   Life   Children  
  • And the sound of your heart," he continued. "It's the most significant sound in my world. I'm so attuned to it now, I swear I could pick it out from miles away. But neither of these things matter. This," he said, taking my face in his hands. "You. That's what I'm keeping. You'll always be my Bella, you'll just be a little more durable.

    Heart   Hands   Sound  
    Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company
  • It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it. The individual feels the nothingness of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in Nature and in the world of though. He looks upon individual existence as a sort of prison and wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole.

    Order   Feelings   Desire  
  • There is no significant difference between human activities and those by amoebas and even bacteria, well, on the GRAND SCALE.

  • Since the election [of Donald Trump], I've been thinking about a lot of theory. Lots of [Michel] Foucault and [Karl] Marx, thinking about different systems, thinking about power. Trying to figure out what I can take and learn from history as a tool for getting through whatever is happening right now, which feels very significant and major.

  • I have to say that I have been blessed with significant teachers at every stage of my life.

    "The Teacher's Journey: An Interview with Parker J. Palmer". Interview with Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.
  • To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.

    Men   Progress   Trying  
    "Dostoevsky : His Life and Work". Book by Konstantin Mochulski, 1971.
  • 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 E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.30, Vintage
  • I still believe we wasted a golden opportunity to make significant changes in our country. I think people in America would have been ready and willing to do it, but the Bush administration took a kind of simplistic, almost moronic approach to it, all because people were so afraid.

    Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.
  • I consider C++ the most significant technical hazard to the survival of your project and do so without apologies.

  • 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.

    Choices   Done   Earth  
  • I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my attention with thosewhich are insignificant, which only a divine mind could illustrate. Such is, for the most part, the news in newspapers and conversation.

    Mind   Attention   News  
    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1166, Delphi Classics
  • Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape.

  • Al-Qa'ida does not follow a traditional command structure, wear uniforms, carry its arms openly, or mass its troops at the borders of the nations it attacks. Nonetheless, it possesses the demonstrated capability to strike with little notice and cause significant civilian or military casualties.

    Military   Borders   Arms  
    "Strengthening our Security by Adhering to our Values and Laws". John O. Brennan's Speech at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 16, 2011.
  • Sometimes love burns so hot in your veins that it consumes all rational thought. You become a walking shell that can no longer function without your significant other whispering into your soul, telling your heart to beat.

    Heart   Soul   Hot  
    FaceBook post by Teresa Mummert from Dec 30, 2013
  • I'm inspired as a writer by any place where I've lived for a significant amount of time that have memories, my past, and stories attached to them, and that's really New York and L.A. Any place where there's ghosts are inspiring.

    Memories   Past   Ghost  
    Source: www.esquire.com
  • I've sought a constructive relationship with Russia, but what I have also been is realistic in recognizing that there is some significant differences in how Russia views the world and how we view the world.

    "Obama urges Trump against realpolitik in relations with Russia" by Philip Oltermann, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2016.
  • I do think John Kerry has tried awfully hard to work with Russia and others to have a lasting, significant cease-fire.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.

    Gun   Want   Way  
    "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1995.
  • I couldn't imagine anything more horrifying than three middle aged men trying to pretend that 'Black Dog' is still significant. It's inappropriate.

    Dog   Men   Black  
  • We are beginning to see practical support. And this is a very significant sign of the movement towards a new era, a new age.... We see both in our country and elsewhere... ghosts of the old thinking.... When we rid ourselves of their presence, we will be better able to move toward a new world order...relying on the relevent mechanisms of the United Nations.

    Country   Money   Moving  
  • As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.

  • We want everyone to prepare themselves for the reality that we are not going to be able to recover significant numbers of people.

  • I think governments are quietly terrified. There's massive unemployment, a recession they don't know how to deal with, and the measures they've taken are not working yet, and maybe they're not going to work. There's a prospect of significant social disorder.

  • I get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant.

    Song   Mean   Significant  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • In medicine, we have invented an entirely new healing paradigm. Now we no longer simply look to the doctor and to medicine to heal us. We now recognize what has been substantiated scientifically everywhere from Harvard to Duke to Stanford - that the power of the mental and spiritual consciousness of the patient is as significant in healing as physical factors are. If we apply that same paradigm to politics, we see that the mind and the spiritual consciousness of the citizen are every bit as important as anything that goes on in the government.

    Source: scottlondon.com
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