There is a magnificent intensity in life that comes when we are not in control but are only reacting, living, surviving. I… — Steven Callahan Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and… — William Thomas Copy Share Image
Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Sometimes people stumble over this vastness in relation to the apparent insignificance of man. It does seem to make us infinitesimally small.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When human beings are regarded as moral beings, sex, instead of being enthroned upon the summit, administering upon rights and responsibilities, sinks… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Ivy [Wilkes] does exhibit a certain impatience at the beginning of the book [The Dissemblers]. She doesn't want to wait through years… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
“You will always feel insignificant if you never do anything to change the world or another person's life, other than your own.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance. — James P. Gorman Copy Share Image
There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair, Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem From insignificance. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I learned at a very young age that music teaches you about life. When you're in the midst of improvisation, there is… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
There is one thing that makes life mighty in its veriest trifles, worthy in its smallest deeds, that delivers it from monotony,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
“It struck Drizzt as a simple truth, a plain reminder of how unknown the world about him really was, even to those,… — R.A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
Ever since the Reformation, the case of legislation confining Catholics had been constructed primarily to protect a nervously Protestant against what was… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
...boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life--...the lesson of your… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The population question is the real riddle of the sphinx, to which no political Oedipus has as yet found the answer. In… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
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