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.
There's one last thing we need to point out. And it is a fact that Puerto Rico is a colonial territory of the United States. This puts us in a very significant disadvantage to all of the other states and to all of the other American citizens. As a matter of comparative, the U. S. citizens, the Puerto Ricans that live in the United States have much better incomes, more than twice as much, participate in the labor force of greater scales, have better results in the education system and so forth.
The best time to do something significant is between yesterday and tomorrow.
If my peers had a significant impact on my music, my music would probably be a lot more popular.
The good news is that we've seen in recent years significant reductions in the cost of solar panels and wind production. We know how significant an impact we can have by moving towards energy efficiency and transforming our transportation system. So we know what has to be done. We have to develop the political will to do it, and, as president, this would be an issue of huge concern to me.
The costs can't be borne by smaller counties particularly, so if the crime occurs in a large county you might be charged with the death penalty, in a smaller county you're not. That raises some significant questions about fairness.
In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.
The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant.
A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity, which inspired me to inhabit the same territory. It's different, because I grew up on Led Zeppelin, The Stooges and punk, so in that sense I'm mutating country and folk more than a few degrees.
I have to say that I have been blessed with significant teachers at every stage of my life.
We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.
The truth is that people - many people are concerned about this, but this is not the first time in America this has happened. There were a significant number of people who didn`t want Jewish refugees before World War II, or even during World War II.
God uses those who seem ill-fitted for a significant life.
Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.
There are still substantial areas of disagreement,. . you simply have to look at the public statements to see there is a significant gap.
Without giving specific names, most of the significant American banks, the larger banks, are bankrupt, totally bankrupt.
One of the reasons the deficit got as big as it did, frankly, was because of the economic slowdown, the fall-off in deficits, the terrorist attacks. A significant chunk was taken out of the economy by what happened after the attacks of 911.
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.
Literacy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say.
There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?