Significant Quotes - page 23

The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it. (Dido Armstrong)
My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do. View quote
Dominic Monaghan
The older you get the more realistic it is that you're significant other is your significant other. I mean, you'll always have your girlfriends or your guy friends, but the person you're married to is usually your No. 1. View quote
Ellen Pompeo
As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish. View quote
Eric Alterman
Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment. View quote
Eric Alterman
The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled. View quote
Eric Ries
And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over. View quote
Ed Rendell
Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons. View quote
Eugene Jarecki
I decided to take two years between finishing undergraduate and beginning medical school to devote fully to medical research. I knew that I wanted to go to medical school during undergraduate, but I was also eager to get a significant amount of research experience. View quote
Eva Vertes
Every major communication tool on the Internet has spam and abuse problems. All email services, blogging services and social networks have to dedicate a significant amount of resources and time to fighting abuse and protecting their users. View quote
Evan Williams
Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets. (Frances O'Grady)
Unbeknownst to most American investors, significant portions of their public pension, mutual fund, life insurance and private portfolios are comprised of stocks of privately held companies that partner with state sponsors of terror. View quote
Frank Gaffney
Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this country's taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG. View quote
Frank Gaffney
Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends. View quote
Gina McCarthy
Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great and significant in proportion to the clarity and fulness with which they incarnate this vision. View quote
George Edward Woodberry
During my time as a state legislator, I've pushed for significant investment in public school districts. In Congress, I would look forward to increasing federal public investment in education through initiatives like Race to the Top. View quote
Hakeem Jeffries
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence. View quote
Henrik Tikkanen
I think people will walk into the Starbucks store and overnight recognize the significant difference between what Starbucks represents day-in and day-out and all the other coffee companies that have been serving coffee in India for so many years. View quote
Howard Schultz
If Vancouver did not succeed as Starbucks from '87 on, our entire international business, which is now thousands of stores and a significant amount of growth and profit, may not have existed. View quote
Howard Schultz
There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want. View quote
James Q. Wilson
It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing. (Jeff Zucker)
In Congress, while the House's proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending - including healthcare and disability pay. Be clear: we can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. View quote
Jennifer Granholm
What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors. View quote
Jack Davenport
The Taliban has not, in my judgment, in any significant way changed their fundamental goal and objective, which is to take over Afghanistan and return to running that country. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't have negotiation talks with them. I think we should. But we've got to be clear-eyed about it. View quote
Jack Keane
Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive. View quote
Jodhi May