(1697 quotes found)
“This is certainly one of the most significant recommendations to come before the commission.”
Anthony Principi
“A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.”
John Berger
“Any significant water that comes into this city is a dangerous threat. Even though I have to plan for it, I don't even want to think about the loss of life a huge hurricane would cause.”
Walter Maestri
“not a total surprise, it is very significant.”
Kirby Daley
“There will be other incentives, but right now the graduation rate is something we consider very, very significant.”
Damon Evans
“Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning.”
Clifford Geertz
“For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place.”
William S. Cohen
“One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.”
Wendy Craig
“The significance of a finding that there are other beings who share this universe with us would be absolutely phenomenal, it would be an epochal event in human history,”
Carl Sagan
“182 has no significance, we just pulled it out of our ass.”
Blink 182