Quotes by Significance A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys. Edith Wharton dramatic significance acquire In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance. Edwin Land international significance building I learned the significance of my own insignificant life. Frank McCourt insignificant significance my-own every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance. Freya Stark significance silent association In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance. George Parsons Lathrop realism significance worthy To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate. George Steiner decipher significance translate No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime. Guy Sajer wartime significance expression Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance. Hannah Arendt significance lost past Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life. Henry Miller significance teach art If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance. Haruki Murakami significance sheep writing Significance is sweet. Ivan Turgenev significance sweet Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand. Jane Addams hull-house significance hands I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is. Henry David Thoreau significance integrity life The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance. Jesse Jackson, Jr. chapters significance events The significance of life is living. Jiddu Krishnamurti significance-of-life significance life-is An inferior sense of smell," Marcus said, as if absolutely nothing of significance had happened, "is distinct from being told that one smells unpleasant. Jim Butcher significance smell said SUCCESS is when I add value to MYSELF. SIGNIFICANCE is when I add value to OTHERS. John C. Maxwell significance values add The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else. John Cleese significance What other significance can our existence have than to be ourselves fully and completely? John Macmurray significance existence Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do. John Ortberg significance who-we-are «1234»