#significant

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#capacity #destination #energy #fact #get

Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony. ↗

— Blake Edwards

#better #colony #leper #out #place

It's not about what the speaker wants. It's not about necessarily what I want. There's two other principles involved here. It's what the constituents in my district want, and they didn't want to raise the debt ceiling unless there were significant structural reforms and spending cuts to help us balance our budget. ↗

— Tim Huelskamp

#balance #budget #ceiling #constituents #cuts

Potentially significant, by the way, because we don't know exactly what's in Matt Cooper's notes, and we don't know - and we don't still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was Rove or somebody else that revealed Valerie Plame's name to him. ↗

— Michael Isikoff

#because #cooper #crucial #else #exactly

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#big #everybody #insignificant #leads #life

Saddam Hussein has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do. ↗

— Henry Waxman

#biological #biological weapons #capacity #chemical #course

There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former. ↗

— Max Baucus

#been #china #critical #former #human

The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#any #changing #circulation #currency #money

The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it. ↗

— Peter Davison

#audience #between #broadcasting #does #hearing

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#architects #luxury #many #reject #significant