Quotes about Insignificant

You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth. Votes: 4

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it. Votes: 4

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it. Votes: 4

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. Votes: 4

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant. Votes: 4

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom. Votes: 4

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise. Votes: 4

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. Votes: 4

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors. Votes: 4

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison. Votes: 4

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. Votes: 4

Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing. Votes: 3

Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant. Votes: 3

You are Insignificant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison. Fine. I don't you like you, either. Votes: 3

Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead. Votes: 3

How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant? Votes: 2

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody. Votes: 2

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view. Votes: 2

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. Votes: 2

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy. Votes: 2

Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern. Votes: 2

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger. Votes: 2

There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time. Votes: 2

If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things. Votes: 2

God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small. Votes: 2

Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me. Votes: 2

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant. Votes: 2

When people really understand the Big Bang and the whole sweep of the evolution of the universe, it will be clear that humans are fairly insignificant. Votes: 2

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. Votes: 2

It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing. Votes: 2

When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah. Votes: 2

I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they're dating or what clothes they're wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life. Votes: 2

First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it. Votes: 2

I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit. Votes: 2

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life. Votes: 2

In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong. Votes: 2

At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction. Votes: 2

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. I buy art that I like. I buy it to show it off in exhibitions. Then, if I feel like it, I sell it and buy more art. Votes: 2

The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most. Votes: 2

Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, humiliate, betray, envy... . And special in this is the child's feeling that the parents' love, their Christian charity, honesty, generosity ... may be only a pretense. Votes: 2

The black characters on TV are the sidekicks, or they're insignificant. You could put all the black sidekicks on one show, and it would be the most boring, one-dimensional show ever. Even look at the black women on 'Community' and 'Parks and Recreation' - they are the archetype of the large black women on television. Snide and sassy. Votes: 2

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. Votes: 2

I am pleased to say that I am not a tortured comedian - I laugh a lot. My twenties weren't particularly happy, but it's the same for a lot of people. In your thirties, you realise that your life and your worries are really insignificant, and you have to force yourself to be more positive and take each day as a gift. Votes: 2

It takes the same effort to think small than to think big. But to think big frees you from the insignificant details. Votes: 1

There is nothing insignificant-nothing. Votes: 0

Don't confuse small with insignificant. Votes: 0

No living thing is insignificant. Votes: 0

Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant. Votes: 0

The insignificant labor; the great create. Votes: 0

Faith takes root in the insignificant. Votes: 0

No insignificant person was ever born. Votes: 0

The most insignificant score is the score at halftime. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as an insignificant improvement. Votes: 0

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life. Votes: 0

The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything. Votes: 0

One should perform even an insignificant task with respect. Votes: 0

An insignificant right becomes important when it is assailed. Votes: 0

We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant. Votes: 0

Poor humanity!--so dependent, so insignificant, and yet so great. Votes: 0

There is no one insignificant in the purposes of God. Votes: 0

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention. Votes: 0

Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life Votes: 0

Art is the ability to separate the significant from the insignificant. Votes: 0

We need to remain childlike. Children don't dream of being insignificant. Votes: 0

Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time. Votes: 0

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant. Votes: 0

Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God. Votes: 0

No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity Votes: 0

What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading! Votes: 0

Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men. Votes: 0

The influence of mankind on climate is trivially true and numerically insignificant. Votes: 0

The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event. Votes: 0

Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms. Votes: 0

I believe that no concern of ours is too small or insignificant. Votes: 0

You know, I'm like Avis rent-a-car: Because I'm insignificant, I try harder. Votes: 0

You know, I'm like Avis rent-a-car: Because I'm insignificant, I try harder." Votes: 0

Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle. Votes: 0

Individual glory is insignificant when compared to achieving victory as a team. Votes: 0

The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything. Votes: 0

It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts. Votes: 0

Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm. Votes: 0

Small, seemingly insignificant steps completed consistently over time will create a radical difference Votes: 0

No detail of your life is too insignificant for your heavenly Father's attention. Votes: 0

To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable. Votes: 0

The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it. Votes: 0

The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind. Votes: 0

Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible. Votes: 0

If you are dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model. Votes: 0

It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives. Votes: 0

Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work. Votes: 0

Small daily - seemingly insignificant - improvements and innovations lead to staggering achievements over time. Votes: 0

No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt. Votes: 0

Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed. Votes: 0

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody. Votes: 0

Poetry in the soul ennobles the insignificant. Something in us does yearn for the ideal. Votes: 0

This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening, and this is ours. Votes: 0

Everything that we do is insignificant...and...it is very important that we do it! Votes: 0

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by. Votes: 0

The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force. Votes: 0

I love that moment when I feel a connection to another person, however brief or insignificant. Votes: 0

Id like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else. Votes: 0

It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life. Votes: 0

I'm not a weight lifter. I'm a seeker. Weight lifting is so insignificant in my life. Votes: 0

I cannot hold with those who want to put down the insignificant chatter of the world Votes: 0

A gift can never be cheap or insignificant because of the heart and love it carries. Votes: 0

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. Votes: 0

Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail (in art) may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism. Votes: 0

Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself. Votes: 0

Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character. Votes: 0

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society. Votes: 0

We're not talking about insignificant amounts of code. It's substantial System V code showing up in Linux. Votes: 0

It is better to be unsuccessful pursuing a significant goal that being successful attaining an insignificant one. Votes: 0

My grandfather was a very insignificant man, actually. At his funeral his hearse followed the other cars. Votes: 0

When you understand that life is a test, you realize that nothing is insignificant in your life. Votes: 0

... God uses such seemingly insignificant ways to prepare us for the plan He has for our lives. Votes: 0

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. Votes: 0

It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant. Votes: 0

How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise. Votes: 0

Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. Votes: 0

If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history. Votes: 0

However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible. Votes: 0

Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible. Votes: 0

Have respect for every person and every issue directed at you. Do not dismiss any encounter as insignificant. Votes: 0

The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details. Votes: 0

An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages. Votes: 0

Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow. Votes: 0

What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive. Votes: 0

No design, no matter how common or seemingly insignificant, is without its adamant critics as well as its ardent admirers. Votes: 0

Linnea.... A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space - from Linnaeus who resembles it. Votes: 0

One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring. Votes: 0

Look at your life in contrast with the magnitude of creation, space and time. Your life becomes insignificant. Ego disappears. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications. Votes: 0

God is concerned that Christians live consistent with their profession even in the seemingly small and insignificant areas of life. Votes: 0

As there is no insignificant work, there is not an insignificant leader. All leaders need training...not just a few. Votes: 0

Pawns are such fascinating pieces, too...So small, almost insignificant, and yet--they can depose kings. Don't you find that interesting? Votes: 0

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived Votes: 0

Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself. Votes: 0

O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant. Votes: 0

We must reduce the emissions 100 percent. In Venezuela, the emissions are currently insignificant compared to the emissions of the developed countries. Votes: 0

While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose... Votes: 0

As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are. Votes: 0

Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression. Votes: 0

If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is. Votes: 0

As much as I don't care about those things, I think it's human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant. Votes: 0

People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you. Votes: 0

I don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant one, matters. Votes: 0

Character is built little by little, over days, weeks, months, and years, with thousands of small and seemingly insignificant acts of discipline. Votes: 0

Words had become overnight just little coins, insignificant and unfreighted, to be exchanged for ribbons, buttons, for an apple or an egg. Votes: 0

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives. Votes: 0

Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful. Votes: 0

Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions. Votes: 0

Stop attaching so much weight to being right. In the grand scheme of things, being right is insignificant compared with being happy. Votes: 0

There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things. Votes: 0

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness. Votes: 0

You will always feel insignificant if you never do anything to change the world or another person's life, other than your own. Votes: 0

Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this respect. Votes: 0

Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time. Votes: 0

I've always been baffled by how much we over-rate the statistically insignificant differences that separate competitors at the top end of the distribution. Votes: 0

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant. Votes: 0

Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts. Votes: 0

Individuals sometimes feel insignificant and doubt that one person can really make a difference in this world. Well, believe me, one person can. Votes: 0

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness. Votes: 0

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant. Votes: 0

Today I saw a red and yellow sunset and thought, how insignificant I am! Of course, I thought that yesterday too, and it rained. Votes: 0

We [people] spend so much time feeling so small and less than and insignificant and diminished because we see ourselves through our own lens. Votes: 0

Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student. Votes: 0

An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all. Votes: 0

We have cellphones and smartphones and iDevices and laptops and the ability to be perpetually connected. We never have to miss anything, significant or insignificant. Votes: 0

Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance. Votes: 0

Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred. Votes: 0

A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant. Votes: 0

We're too insignificant and small to really be able to do anything, except cry, not unhappily, but an inner cry, a feeling of reaching to God: Votes: 0

I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself. Votes: 0

Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space. Votes: 0

The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side. Votes: 0

I sit and pass judgment on myself: this is dull, this is unclear, this is insignificant: ergo I am dull, I am unclear, I am insignificant. Votes: 0

Put your heart into even the smallest seemingly insignificant acts possible. Then be patient enough for the universe to give back to you what you reap. Votes: 0

I saw corpses, and grew used to their unimportant look, for a dead man without any of the panoply of death is a desperately insignificant object. Votes: 0

The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Votes: 0

It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and fell off his perch. Votes: 0

Be sure to remember that nothing in your daily life is so insignificant and so inconsequential that the Lord will not help you by answering your prayer. Votes: 0

Everybody is living for a purpose, you might turn out to be significant or insignificant depending on the kind of message you are feeding the world with. Votes: 0

A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person. Votes: 0

If I hate a person, then I must still love him as well.. For the insignificant ones, I don't hate.. I just lose interest and become indifferent.. Votes: 0

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant… Votes: 0

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction. Votes: 0

Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part. Votes: 0

The use of plant oil as fuel may seem insignificant today. But such products can in time become just as important as kerosene and these coal-tar-products of today. Votes: 0

The high five card will be an insignificant bonus to the incredible time I’ll have traveling the world and meeting new people, especially fans of Nando’s Votes: 0

Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant. Votes: 0

If we looked inside ourselves and remembered how insignificant we are, just for a couple of minutes a day, respect for other people would be an automatic result. Votes: 0

If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind! Votes: 0

It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something that is totally insignificant in eternity. Votes: 0

And it is a strange thing about love... it is that it can take a strength that would seem otherwise insignificant and transform it into a hardly quenchable power. Votes: 0

The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection. Votes: 0

Often, the most extraordinary opportunities are hidden among the seemingly insignificant events of life. If we do not pay attention to these events, we can easily miss the opportunities. Votes: 0

Her chest full of crisp air and inspiration, her feet atop a forgettable mountain where the stars make you feel insignificant and important all at once. And she sang. Votes: 0

All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account. Votes: 0

Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair. Votes: 0

Most people get overwhelmed by the insignificant decisions of their lives. I'm urging people to minimize the time spent on these when they're not critical to their most important goals. Votes: 0

I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn't even matter if I existed at all. Votes: 0

It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Votes: 0

The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men, they reared the transcendent conception of a God. Votes: 0

If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant. Votes: 0

In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant. Votes: 0

If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am constantly doing by being what I am. Votes: 0

What, actually, is the difference between communism and fascism? Both are forms of statism, authoritarianism. The only difference between Stalin's communism and Mussolini's fascism is an insignificant detail in organizational structure. Votes: 0

Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn. Votes: 0

The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on. Votes: 0

In naturalism, man is actually very insignificant, but arrogates to himself stupendous power. In Christianity, man is actually the apex of created significance, but is called to see it in abject humility. Votes: 0

By this he meant that all events, therefore, all men, are interconnected in an unbreakable web. What man does, no matter how seemingly insignificant, vibrates through the strands and affects every man. Votes: 0

By this he meant that all events, therefore, all men, are interconnected in an unbreakable web. What man does, no matter how seemingly insignificant, vibrates through the strands and affects every man. Votes: 0

all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened. Votes: 0

An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal readers to discover them, will outlast him for a while. Votes: 0

The severity of your problems is a matter of perspective. Change your perspective and most of them become insignificant. Some of them will no longer exist as problems - but opportunities instead. Votes: 0

I know it may seem small and insignificant, but it's not about what it is, it's about what it can become. That's not a seed, any more than you're just a boy. Votes: 0

The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door. Votes: 0

This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique - and insignificant. Votes: 0

I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own. Votes: 0

Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth... Votes: 0

Until we will be able to shape the universe the way we wanted, mankind will not be taken seriously by the universe and he shall remain as insignificant ants of the universe! Votes: 0

Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or insignificant, but of being part of a rich and complex narrative. Votes: 0

The longer I live, the more deeply am I convinced that that which makes the difference between one person and another-between the weak and the powerful, the great and the insignificant-is energy-invisible determination. Votes: 0

Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was insignificant or a mere reflection of economic forces. Votes: 0

To my mind, there are no unattractive women; only those who haven't been awakened by love . . . A woman is often like a strip of film-obliterated, insignificant-until a man puts the light behind her. Votes: 0

Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant. Votes: 0

If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger. Votes: 0

The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time. Votes: 0

The whole world says that my Way is great like nothing else. It is great because it is like nothing else. If it were like everything else, it would long ago have become insignificant. Votes: 0

The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. Votes: 0

I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant. Votes: 0

My life burned inside me. Even such as it was, it was the only record of me, and it was my only creation, and something in me would not accept that it was insignificant. Votes: 0

The decisions that we write off as momentary, insignificant, incidental, everyday encounters are exactly when we have a chance to define ourselves. To find beauty. To engage the world around us. To create memories. Votes: 0

If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day. Votes: 0

A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant. Votes: 0

No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about...One thing's for sure"”no one but you can be the hero of your story. Votes: 0

Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story. Votes: 0

I love that moment when I feel a connection to another person, however brief or insignificant. I am always inspired by anything created by someone trying to overcome great obstacles. Good tunes never hurt, either. Votes: 0

Because of the active principle and spirit or universal soul, nothing is so incomplete, defective or imperfect, or, according to common opinion, so completely insignificant that it could not become the source of great events. Votes: 0

Countries that are agricultural can, at a low standard of living, sustain themselves. You can be self-sufficient; the money economy is a relatively insignificant part of the total economy. Singapore never was an agricultural country. Votes: 0