Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

#significance

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #significance




Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.


Walter Rudolf Hess


#brain #deep #exact #functional #information

The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.


Ferdinand Christian Baur


#based #belongs #conceptual #consciousness #deeper

The Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them of that birth just as the people who love us are not really interested primarily in the facts of our births but in what it meant to them when we were born and how for them the world was never the same again, how their whole lives were changed with new significance.


Frederick Buechner


#life-changing #significance #change

Could a literary life be referred to with the iambic pentameter of, say, harnessing wind power, transplanting hearts or saving the whales. Or did it necessitate the sombre and monotonous dirge of software, priority banking or turbine building.


Anita Nair


#monotony #professions #significance #writing #life

As much as I don't care about those things, I think it's human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant.


Megan McCafferty


#humans #jessica-darling #significance #nature

If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.


Steve Martin


#wealth #math

Al Qaeda has significance beyond its numbers, frankly. And so for us, our 24-hour-a-day objective is to seek out those al Qaeda cells. And, as we seek them out, to target them and eliminate them. And we're doing that 24 hours a day.


John R. Allen


#beyond #cells #day #doing #eliminate

Regardless of your political affiliation, most people agree that Ronald Reagan was an American icon. He was a president of national significance and for that reason he deserves an honor in the nation's capital.


Henry Bonilla


#agree #american #capital #deserves #honor

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.


Pablo Casals


#care #deepest #feel #gives #i

As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day.


J. M. Coetzee


#another day #calendar #date #day #december






back to top