Top 415 Crucial Quotes

For good or ill, communism transformed the globe, but how many of us realise the crucial role played by a Manchester public library – Chethams, the oldest library in the English-speaking world – in the honing of that ideology?
Michael Portillo
Legal aid is crucial in ensuring those truly guilty of crimes are convicted after due process, and those innocent are able to clear their names, by ensuring that access to legal representation is available for everyone, regardless of ability to pay.
Sadiq Khan
I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one’s best physical features.
Vivienne Westwood
The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror.
Carl Levin
Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms.
Toshihiko Fukui
I have my values. I do things that I think are right. I think it is crucial for mankind to go vegetarian. In fact, I think if the United States and one other major power becomes basically vegetarian, the whole world will become vegetarian, eventually.
Bernhard Goetz
Miami has been a second home where I have lived and worked for many decades and a crucial place in the trajectory of sharing my message with global audiences.
Walter Mercado
To understand the future properly, it’s crucial that we listen to geologists as often as we do computer scientists.
Annalee Newitz
I was a huge Wu-Tang fan, along with Crucial Conflict,

I was a huge Wu-Tang fan, along with Crucial Conflict, along with Do or Die along with Mobb Deep.
Lil Rel Howery
The cap-and-trade plan is more market driven than anything else. If you want to discourage carbon use, you have to make it more expensive, but what is crucial is that this be a worldwide program that includes China and India.
Phil Gramm
A goalkeeper’s mistakes are always crucial ones – or get talked about a lot.
Jordan Pickford
Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don’t see that it’s crucial for a democracy!
David Baldacci
I feel that more women should turn directors as they are more sensitive and emotional than men – that’s a crucial factor in being a good director.
Divya Khosla Kumar
Players are under such pressure in crucial moments, especially at the highest level with what is on the line.
Ben Stokes
International economic and political sanctions on Iran, as crucial as they may be, are only an initial step, and must be dramatically increased.
Ehud Olmert
Inspiring children through play and creativity is crucial to early development, and no company has done more in that space over many generations than Mattel.
Margo Georgiadis
But Canada remains a crucial partner in this global war on terrorism, and we are grateful for that. Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and military personnel continue anti-terrorist operations in the Persian Gulf.
Paul Cellucci
I believe that the future of humans, and the future of Earth, depends on space exploration. That’s not a French problem, or a problem for Alabama: it’s a planet-wide problem. International cooperation is crucial.
John M. Grunsfeld
We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.
Mark Rothko
It might sound cliched, but choosing the right script is crucial. I think ‘Badmaash Company’ was a very big break for me because it gave me a lot of appreciation from the masses. It made me more confident as an actor.
Vir Das
Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America’s interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
Patrick Leahy
Whether or not your candidate wins, the crucial importance is the integrity of our voting system. You have to engage in the process in order to change it.
Brandon Victor Dixon
The United States provides Israel with crucial security and economic aid and invaluable political backing in the international arena.
Ehud Olmert
To economists, prices serve as crucial signals to producers and consumers. In a regulated market, the state sets prices high enough for private companies to cover their costs and earn a guaranteed profit for their investors. But in a deregulated market, prices should vary with demand and supply.
Alex Berenson
On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial… whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.
Edward Albert
For me, one of the things that makes the X-Men so crucial is they are relatively small in number but they have the potential to have a tremendous impact on the society around them.
Chris Claremont
Writing that’s native to the web is different in ways that are crucial but subtle enough that you can miss them if you conceive of your audience as reading a printed product.
Jacob Weisberg
The way we structure our deals is to work closely with the director. It is imperative to work with a studio because the way the film is marketed is crucial.
Ronnie Screwvala
Towards the end of my career, I was thinking about going into the media world. It’s crucial: with three to four years left in the game, you begin to plan for the end.
Phil Neville
As with any other crucial aspect of a growing business, you need the right technology and tools.
Julia Hartz
Milkbars were not only a crucial part of Australian food culture for nearly half a century, but also influenced the way many of us connected with neighbours.
Melissa Leong
Because cervical cancer generally progresses slowly, early diagnosis is often crucial to detecting the disease when there are curative treatment options available.
Leana S. Wen
The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the absence of justice in executing the international legitimacy resolutions, regarding the Israeli Arab cause and the oppression on Palestinians by Israelis.
Ali Abdullah Saleh
The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
Nancy Pearcey
Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.
John Knowles
A free and open Internet is crucial for innovation and the exchange of information and ideas. It allows grassroots communities to organize and mobilize against injustice across our nation and the globe. It’s good for business, consumers, and our entire economy.
Deb Haaland
There is not one style in particular that suits me. I think that every formation has its pros and cons. It’s crucial to have a coach who understands your strengths and weaknesses. Obviously, I prefer to play up front, close to the opponents. That way I can make use of my strengths in one-on-one situations.
Hulk
George Orwell’s ‘1984’ frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: it’s not a celebration of poetic language. It’s decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what ‘1984’ shows is that language can be a dirty trick.
Graham Joyce
Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.
Mike Quigley
In modern-day cricket, the role of the first three to f

In modern-day cricket, the role of the first three to four batsmen has become very crucial.
Sarfaraz Ahmed
At training, I consider myself a bit of a morale booster. I take a pack of lollies just to boost the boys’ morale. I see that as crucial. I try and be a good influence and keep a high energy.
Nick Cummins
The stakes are high on every film now because there’s the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
Vidya Balan
Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.
Eckhart Tolle
Denver’s commitment to giving contemporary storytellers the stage is crucial to the American theater. That’s something embraced by ‘Smash.’ We should be telling our own stories.
Theresa Rebeck
When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we’ve taken on a role or we’re acting in some way and that our acting or our role playing is crucial to the gender that we are and the gender that we present to the world.
Judith Butler
I know the crucial role community health centers play in keeping our most vulnerable neighbors healthy from both sides. When I was uninsured, I relied on a community health center to provide my health care.
Cori Bush
It’s absolutely crucial that every child-serving organization – be it an elementary school, daycare, or community center – provide its children with time and space to play.
Darell Hammond
Economic growth can enable development if it is supplemented by public policies that encourage circulation of wealth, especially into crucial areas such as public healthcare and education.
Jamshyd Godrej
I think Maine needs people. It needs diversity. It needs to be able to respect people. Openness is crucial for this state because we don’t want to be known for having the oldest state in the nation. We want young families.
John Baldacci
The Holy Ghost is a comforter and a guide. But it is also a cleansing agent. That is why service in the kingdom is so crucial to enduring. When we are called to serve, we can pray for the Holy Ghost to be our companion with assurance it will come.
Henry B. Eyring
Whether one admired or was repulsed by the positions he took on matters foreign and domestic, it is undeniable that Reagan’s ability to project anger was highly attractive to his most passionate supporters on the far right – and crucial to his political success.
Jackson Katz
The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.
Desmond Tutu