Significant Events Quotes:

The days, months, and years eventually reveal, like a Polaroid, a clear picture of how significant events and decisions ultimately shape our lives.

- Hoda Kotb

source: Hoda Kotb, Jane Lorenzini (2014). “Ten Years Later: Six People Who Faced Adversity and Transformed Their Lives”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

topic: Years, Decision, Events, Polaroids, Significant Events

Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first.

- George Matthew Adams

topic: Christmas, Heart, Thinking, Jesus And Christmas, Jesus Christmas

Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.

- Peabo Bryson

topic: Events, Kind, Life Is, Significant Events

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which

- Arthur Koestler

topic: Two, May, Encounters, Coincidence In Life, Chance Encounters

The temple is a sacred edifice, a holy place, where essential saving ceremonies and ordinances are performed to prepare us for exaltation. It is important that we gain a sure knowledge that our preparation to enter the holy house and that our participation in these ceremonies and covenants are some of the most significant events we will experience in our mortal lives.

- Robert D. Hales

topic: Blessing, House, Preparation, Ordinances, Significant Events

From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.

- Richard P. Feynman

source: Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2015). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter”, p.71, Hachette UK

topic: Discovery, Views, Law, Thousand Years, Maxwell

One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Past, Origin Of Life, Events, Significant Events

The most significant event of the 20th century will be the fact that the North Americans speak English.

- Otto von Bismarck

topic: Speak English, Events, Facts, Significant Events

While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.

- Ginny Brown-Waite

topic: Women, Rights, Important, Significant Events

The first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human conciousness... seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their own innermost being, their true nature.

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.17, Penguin

topic: Flower, Firsts, Events, Significant Events

The resurrection of Christ from the dead, next to the Crucifixion itself, is the most significant event in church history. It isn't a peripheral issue; it's foundational. It's bedrock. It's the bottom line.

- Greg Laurie

topic: Issues, Church, Events, Church History, Significant Events

Meteorologists have the right perspective. They ground themselves in the current conditions (today’s highs/lows). They briefly acknowledge significant events of the past (record temps). And they keep an eye on the future (five-day forecast). Honor your past accomplishments, live in the present moment, and look to the future.

- Clifton Anderson

topic: Eye, Past, Accomplishment, Looking To The Future, Significant Events

By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.

- Alan Greenspan

source: Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan, www.federalreserve.gov. March 19, 1999.

topic: Past, Expansion, Events, Significant Events

Perhaps the most significant event in the evolution of the liberated mind arrives with the realization that most people, even in their deepest convictions, are blind to most truths.

- Nathaniel Dean

topic: People, Mind, Realization, Liberated, Significant Events

The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even less significant events have their own Horsemen. For example, the Four Horsemen of the Common Cold are Sniffles, Chesty, Nostril, and Lack of Tissues; the Four Horsemen whose appearance foreshadows any public holiday are Storm, Gales, Sleet, and Contra-flow.

- Terry Pratchett

source: "Interesting Times". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.

topic: War, Holiday, Storm, Common Cold, Four Horsemen

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.

- Stone Gossard

source: "From Ticketmaster to Trees: An Interview With Pearl Jam Guitarist Stone Gossard". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. October 17, 2008.

topic: Country, Simplicity, Degrees, Stooges, Reconnecting