Significant Quotes - Page 20

• Whether sexual orientation can change or not, hearts can change and turn any sexual orientation into an occasion for the glory of Christ. Those with same-sex attraction glorify Christ through sexual abstinence and through the enrichment of significant Christ-exalting relationships in other ways.

  John Piper

  Sex, Heart, Way

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• I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.

  John Polkinghorne

  Sides, Best Work, Mathematical

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• Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.

  Dennis Prager

  School, College, Perspective

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• I'm sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It's just not the way I roll. I love being a curator and a musicologist. People write me letters and thank me for turning them on to Fred McDowell and Sippie Wallace, and that's partly my job this time around.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Jobs, Writing, Artist

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• The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

  Samuel Richardson

  Republic, Letters, Littles

  Samuel Richardson (1751). “Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life”, p.415

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• The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled.

  Eric Ries

  Impact, Movement, Company

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• I think George Allen from Virginia was a distinguished governor, he's a distinguished senator and head of the Senatorial Campaign Committee and won some significant victories. He is a very attractive guy and would make a tremendous president.

  Pat Robertson

  Thinking, Virginia, Guy

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• My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.

  Marco Rubio

  Mom, Mother, Dad

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• Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.

  Jerry Saltz

  Political, Pages, Today

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• 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.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, Thinking, Years

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• 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.

  Howard Schultz

  Growth, Vancouver, May

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• To spend more money, you have to have more money, but time is fixed and we all have the same amount to spare. How we choose to spend it can make a significant difference on the impact we have in our careers or in the world.

  Simon Sinek

  Impact, Careers, Differences

  "How To Spend Your Time: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

  Susan Sontag

  Forever, Details, Life Is

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• Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Valentines Day, Missing Someone, Thinking

  Twitter post from Mar 07, 2017

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• A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Sports, Law, Nfl

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• Lower oil prices won't, by themselves, topple the mullahs in Iran. But it's significant that, historically, when oil prices have been low, Iranian reformers have been ascendant and radicals relatively subdued, and vice versa when prices have been high.

  James Surowiecki

  Iran, Oil, Vices

  "TROUBLED WATERS OVER OIL". www.newyorker.com. February 19, 2007.

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• I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.

  Yani Tseng

  Work, Believe, Giving

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• I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead.

  David Sedaris

  Machines, Noise, Laundry

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• In February, the overcast sky isn’t gloomy so much as neutral and vague. It’s a significant factor in the common experience of depression among the locals. The snow crunches under your boots and clings to your trousers, to the cuffs, and once you’re inside, the snow clings to you psyche, and eventually you have to go to the doctor. The past soaks into you in this weather because the present is missing almost entirely.

  Charles Baxter

  Past, Doctors, Sky

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.248, Vintage

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• There's a kind of Ah-ha! Somebody at least for a moment feels about something or sees something the way that I do. It doesn't happen all the time. It's these brief flashes or flames, but I get that sometimes. I feel unalone—intellectually, emotionally, spiritually. I feel human and unalone and that I'm in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness in fiction and poetry in a way that I don't with other art.

  David Foster Wallace

  Art, Flames, Way

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• Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

  Albert Camus

  Beautiful, Liars, Lying

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• The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Air, People, Giving

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• Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or sister. No matter how new the face or how different the dress and behavior, there is no significant division between us and other people. It is foolish to dwell on external differences, because our basic natures are the same.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Buddhist, Brother

  Dalai Lama (2001). “The Compassionate Life”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• The longest journey
  Is the journey inwards.
  Of him who has chosen his destiny,
  Who has started upon his quest
  For the source of his being.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Past, Journey, Destiny

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• Jesus picked up the conversation. "As the crowning glory of creation, you were made in Our image, unencumbered by structure and free to simply 'be' in relationship with Me and one another. If you had trully learned to regard one another's concerns as significant as your own, there would be no need for hierarchy.

  William P. Young

  Jesus, Would Be, Needs

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