Definition of Momentous

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Definition of Momentous
	Momentous Of moment or consequence; very important; weighty; as, a momentous decision; momentous affairs. Related Definitions: As, Consequence, Decision, Important, Moment, Momentous, Of, Or, Very, Weighty

Momentous Quotations

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
Woodrow Wilson

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Francis Bacon

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
Louis Kahn

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Pythagoras

I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21.
Joshua Lederberg

Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate.
Emily Greene Balch

His impact would have been of transient memory and comparatively small importance, had not that impact occurred at a time and in a way to make it supply particulars from which momentous generalizations can properly be projected.
Robert Welch

Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly.
Moshe Sharett

Comrades - We are living in momentous times.
James Larkin

Momentous Translations

momentous in German is bedeutsam

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