Salient Quotes

With the death of Chief Justice Rehnquist and the tragedy of Katrina that view is even more salient now. - Margie McHugh

We've always treated the historical context of a particular time as a kind of sidebar to any discussion about business leadership... But we've found that context is far more salient than we ever imagined. - Nitin Nohria

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, 'here and now,' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset

The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever; it also applies to all territories, whatever their economic or political regime. - Rene Cassin

The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten. - James Buchan

The global problem of uneven development is increasingly salient as the gap between the North and South is further widening. There are financial turbulence from time to time and new manifestations of trade barriers and protectionism. We must strengthen international cooperation to seize opportunities and meet challenges together so as to promote balanced and orderly development of the world economy. - Hu Jintao

The first and most salient issue is likely to be the war in Iraq. - Bert Rockman

The contributions from Siebel were appropriately conservative. And the (operating expenditure) synergies are in line with expectations. Perhaps the most salient surprise was an increase in the license guidance for core Oracle. - Adam Holt

Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life. - Stefan Kanfer