It needs more skill than I can tell To play the second fiddle well. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Your memory does me more honour than my insignificance deserves.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance."- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications. — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
“Logic is always defeated by itself, that is to say, by the insignificance of the cases on which it thrives.’ Ibid-25 bit.ly/Mnhoc7… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Studying the stars makes you come to grips with your insignificance pretty quickly.” — Diane Chamberlain 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
“...I cannot say that I regret my comparative insignificance, Importance may sometimes be purchased too dearly.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A great many persons are able to become Members of this House without losing their insignificance. — Beverley Baxter Copy Share Image
Quote from CARE OF THE SOUL...Thomas Moore ...to the soul, the most minute details and the most ordinary activities, carried out with… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“In comparison to what I've suffered from myself, the humiliation and suffering inflicted on me by others vanishes into insignificance.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before… — Anton Chekhov 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
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
If humans did not manufacture some of their own to appear like better people, people would not aspire to be someone else.… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
Failure is easy to measure. Failure is an event.Harder to measure is insignificance. A nonevent. Insignificance creeps, it dawns, it gives you… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
There's only one way for an individual to remain upright, not to fall to pieces, not to sink into the mire of… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are social animals. We like to feel a part of something of beauty and power that transcends our insignificance. It can… — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
“Philip exulted, as he had exulted in his boyhood when the weight of a belief in God was lifted from his shoulders:… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I wish I could describe the feeling of being at sea, the anguish, frustration, and fear, the beauty that accompanies threatening spectacles,… — Steve Callahan Copy Share Image
“If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would… — Stanley Kubrick 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
“For many feverish years he was burdened with the sensation, an ancient one to be sure, that the incredible sprawl of human… — Thomas Ligotti 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
“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
