Significance Quotes - Page 37

• And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives... and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted.

  Nate Saint

  God, Christian, Years

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• The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale: to an observer in the Andromeda nebula, the sign of our extinction would be no more than a match flaring for a second in the heavens: and if that match does blaze in the darkness there will be none to mourn a race that used a power that could have lit a beacon in the stars to light its funeral pyre. The choice is ours.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Stars, Light, Race

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• Everest has a special place in all of our imaginations. For centuries, Everest was a little bit like the moon. It was the place where everyone wanted to go. Empires wanted to be able to say that they were the first to put a climber on top of Everest. So when a tragedy happens up on that mountain, I think it has a global resonance. Everybody's heard of Everest. Everybody knows what Everest is and what it means, and the significance.

  Richard Engel

  Mean, Moon, Thinking

  "Richard Engel Spotlights Heroes and Victims of Everest Avalanche". Interview with Andrew Katz, time.com. June 25, 2015.

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• Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as they appear. My heroes and heroines I want not extreme types, all good or all bad; but human, mortal--partly good, partly bad. Realism I need. Pure mental abstractions have no significance for me.

  Ouida

  Art, Hero, Believe

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• Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  People, Thirty, Five

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.

  Helen Keller

  Spiritual, Giving, Joy

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Mean, Dwelling Place, Giving

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn't have to be dripping in deep significance.

  Roger Ebert

  Fun, Unhappy, Way

  Roger Ebert (1987). “Roger Ebert's Movie Home Companion”

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• As we celebrate Thanksgiving, we should reflect on the full meaning of this day as we enjoy the fellowship that is so much a part of the holiday festivities. Searching our hearts, we should ask what we can do as individuals to demonstrate our gratitude to God for all He has done. Such reflection can only add to the significance of this precious day of remembrance.

  Ronald Reagan

  Gratitude, Holiday, Heart

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• The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.

  Carl Sagan

  Mistake, Ignorance, Errors

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.76, Ballantine Books

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• I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sports, Believe, Player

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• Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.

  Indra Devi

  Yoga, Mean, Meditation

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• Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage-the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterologic al traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Racism, Political

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.148, Penguin

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