Quotes of Import - somelinesforyou

“ I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to do with wanting to be like a German singer. ”

- Victoria de los Angeles

“ Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. ”

- Charles Grassley

“ As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it absolutely. ”

- Vincent van Gogh

“ All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation. ”

- George Eliot

“ It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. ”

- Thomas Huxley

“ Much Ado About Nothing. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification. ”

- Albert Camus

“ Jazz is rhythm and meaning. ”

- Henri Matisse

“ Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance. ”

- Leo F. Buscaglia

“ We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or grand moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest meaning and significance. Thanks to Ayn Fox - Pablo Casals. ”

- Pablo Casals

“ This meeting is of significance and importance. ”

- George Price

“ Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC. ”

- Andy Grove

“ Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines — these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm. ”

- Henry Miller

“ Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain. ”

- Pierre Elliott Trudeau

“ Most of our imports come from other countries. ”

- George W. Bush

“ Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas. ”

- Keppel Enderbery

“ As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports. ”

- E. J. Hobsbawm

“ Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value. ”

- Georg Hegel

“ Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country. ”

- Emile Lahud

“ Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs of the Middle East and South Asia. ”

- Daniel Pipes

“ We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. ”

- William James

“ I've always had a passion for classic cars, so I started a locating, brokering, import and export business. Just me, a laptop and a cell phone. I'm having a lot of fun doing that, as well as listening to music, making compilations, downloading music - even of CDs that I own - because it's faster than gathering them up and ripping; certainly easier than transferring vinyl. ”

- Don Rose

“ The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for. ”

- Sam Donaldson

“ Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we'd find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time… ”

- Ray Kurzweil

“ To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work… ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ It was a folly, with the materiality of this daily life pressing so intrusively upon me, to attempt to fling myself back into another age; or to insist on creating a semblance of a world out of airy matter … This wiser effort would have been, to diffuse thought and imagination through the opaque substance of to-day, and thus make it a bright transparency … to seek resolutely the true and indestructible value that lay hidden in the petty and wearisome incidents and ordinary characters with which I was now conversant… ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply. ”

- Barbara Ehrenreich
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