Top 460 Significant Quotes

I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Food manufacturing is an ideal candidate for targeted accelerated depreciation because the food industry, our biggest industry, creates significant flow-on benefits.
Anthony Pratt
From the country with limited hope to grow your own business and express your own personality, Russia has become the land of significant opportunity.
Roustam Tariko
Through the Fellows Program, Acumen Fund prepares future global leaders with the tools necessary to drive significant social change.
Jacqueline Novogratz
All good music, whatever its date, is ageless – as alive and significant today as it was when it was written.
Peter Warlock
We have a very significant number of Jewish citizens, and they have always been safe and secure where they are in Turkey.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
We have already significant sums of money in our petroleum fund, a fund created by law that includes all the revenues received from the Timor Sea, and invests in conservative, safe, long-term investment portfolios – right now in US Treasury Bonds.
Jose Ramos-Horta
As a Christian, Israel has a very special place in my heart. There’s no question about that. I grew up with a Bible, and the back of the Bible has all these pictures of Israel in it. And so all these locations are incredibly significant to me personally in my faith.
James Lankford
I’ve had to step up when I was Al Gore’s campaign manager. I had to make significant changes as we moved from Washington, D.C. to Tennessee.
Donna Brazile
My characters are often without a significant parental

My characters are often without a significant parental figure.
Jamie Bell
Get to know the job intimately that you’re applying for. Don’t just read the job description – study it and picture yourself performing every task required of you. When you interview, framing your responses so that you reveal your significant knowledge about the job gives you a massive advantage.
Travis Bradberry
Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.
Bill Gates
The financial crisis and the Great Recession posed the most significant macroeconomic challenges for the United States in a half-century, leaving behind high unemployment and below-target inflation and calling for highly accommodative monetary policies.
Jerome Powell
When I travel and speak across the country, I often tell college students that we are making a significant mistake when we say to each other that this criminal justice of ours is broken. To say it’s broken would be to suggest that it was well designed and had good intentions from the start.
Shaun King
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man’s general destiny.
Lascelles Abercrombie
With federal recognition, the Lumbee Tribe would become a full player in Indian country, no longer second class Indians in the eyes of the federal government. As such, we would employ our substantial skills and abilities to help correct problems faced by Indian country and make significant contributions.
Kelvin Sampson
As a general rule, the only way people pay $7,500 a table for club fights is when a significant portion of the proceeds is earmarked for charity.
Thomas Hauser
Only black holes of very low mass would emit a significant amount of radiation.
Stephen Hawking
The most pressing and significant problems in the global economy are unsustainable structural issues with regard to the E.U. – fiscal deficits and the structure of the E.U. itself.
Henry Paulson
As a PC gaming enthusiast, a significant chunk of my time and money was spent building and upgrading my rig, always in pursuit of a better gaming experience. At some point, I decided to take a look past my three 3D monitors and figure out what the absolute best theoretical gaming setup would be.
Palmer Luckey
I know that we have to get in there and do something if we want to change the system and get a better government. But the whole task is very daunting. If I join either the Congress or the BJP, I will be forced to follow their systems and then I may not be able to do anything significant to change things.
Sharmila Tagore
Trump has taken it to a new level. He is now viewing the media as the ‘opposition party,’ in his own words. Consequently, media coverage of Trump has become that much more significant.
Dan Abrams
The third-person or ‘objective,’ static, reductive models used in most science are important and yield significant results, but they have their limitations.
Siri Hustvedt
PAL continues to be the country’s leading airline and significant promoter of Philippine tourism.
Lucio Tan
I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.
Anne Heche
Online payment will continue to play an ever-growing and significant role in the development of e-commerce as well as the stimulation of consumer demand.
Lucy Peng
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
T. S. Eliot
You want less of the annoying nonsense that interferes with your portfolios and more of the significant data that allow you to become a less distracted, more purposeful investor.
Barry Ritholtz
It’s an unfortunate fact that in the male black population, a very significant percentage of them, more so than whites or other minority candidates, because of convictions, prison records, are never going to be hired by a police department. That’s a reality. That’s not a byproduct of stop-and-frisk.
William Bratton
Every significant book at Marvel had its key antagonist. ‘The Fantastic Four’ had Doctor Doom; ‘Spider-Man’ had Doc Ock, among others; Thor had Loki, if not Surtur. Without Magneto, the X-Men had nobody.
Chris Claremont
This was a result of a number of factors, but we do know that the messages kids get about the harms of drugs has a significant impact on their decision on whether or not to use.
John Walters
Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of undergraduates.
Derek Bok
We ought to follow through on an idea that was first proposed by President Clinton to allow people over the age of 55 who are not eligible for Medicare into the Medicare system, at cost, and below cost for those who can’t afford it. That takes care of a significant number of the people who don’t have health insurance.
John Edwards
You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.
Brian Mulroney
Poetry is not mainstream, but then neither is serious fiction, really. But I don’t think there’s a lot to worry about in this particular ‘problem’. Why does art have to be mainstream to be significant?
Jonathan Galassi
The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving the cause of freedom, we must seek abolition of war through programs of general and complete disarmament. The Test-Ban Treaty of 1963 represents a significant beginning in this immense undertaking.
Robert Kennedy
The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, – three departments of government.
Albert Bushnell Hart
People tend to not forgo purchasing a cellphone. In many places in the world, the first time they get on the Internet is through a cellphone. Pretty significant economic push, particularly in the emerging market.
Steve Mollenkopf
While it can be challenging for women with disruptive, technology-based ideas to acquire significant funding, in my experience, once I was able to raise that funding, I was met with droves of people offering to help me fulfill my dreams.
Jennifer Hyman
My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company.
Mario Batali
I lived a significant portion of my life before the Int

I lived a significant portion of my life before the Internet and smart phones.
Burnie Burns
A more significant phase should mean serious political dialogue.
Aung San Suu Kyi
A significant regret is that I was not as good a father as I would have ideally liked to be. I was not, I think, a bad father.
M. Scott Peck
Medical care is one of the only sectors in which Americans are asked to make significant, long-term decisions without knowing the exact price of those decisions up front. Americans deserve to make informed decisions about their medical options.
Bill Flores
When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
Paul Klee
In the past, a blow to the international system’s strongest power would have been welcomed by its rivals. In the wake of September 11, however, every significant government in the world declared its support for the United States.
Michael Mandelbaum
As we have heard, the end of al-Zarqawi is a significant blow to al-Qaida operations in Iraq. It is another clear indication of the progress we are making.
Kit Bond
Sinn Fein is committed to promoting and enhancing reconciliation, and in recent years, I and other members of my party have taken a number of significant initiatives aimed to advance this process.
Martin McGuinness
The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen’s right to vote is fundamental to all the other rights of citizenship and the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 make it the responsibility of the Department of Justice to protect that right.
Robert Kennedy
Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support – a significant problem in the software industry.
Bill Gates