Inconsequential Quotes
71 quotes by 64 authors
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Though my work may be menial, though my contribution may be small, I can perform it with dignity and offer it with unselfishness. My talents…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off.
— Edward Gorey
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He knew very well that love could be like the most beautiful singing, that it could make death inconsequential, that it existed in forms so…
— Mark Helprin
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Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and…
— Louis L'Amour
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Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside…
— Jeanette Winterson
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I believe that what we get out of life is what we've set ourselves up to get, so there's no such thing as an inconsequential…
— Megan McCafferty
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A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once. "A businessman has…
— Walter Mosley
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Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are…
— Sidney Poitier
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Reality is a state of mind. To the banker, the money in his ledger book is all very real, though he doesn't actually see it…
— Libba Bray
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All her knowledge is gone now. Everything she ever learned, or heard, or saw. Her particular way of looking at Hamlet or daisies or thinking…
— Jandy Nelson
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There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence,…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her.
— Veronica Roth
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I read The Hunger Games voraciously and was extremely annoyed when interrupted by such inconsequential things as 'Christmas dinner.' (God, Mom, did you not understand…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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She wished she were as inconsequential as the ghosts in her dreams.
— Libba Bray
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Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.
— David Markson
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It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless…
— Nick Harkaway
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As we continued to talk, going through the motions of getting to know each other, I realized that we already did know each other, as…
— Ernest Cline
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This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and bits of happenstance…
— Louise Erdrich
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You’re different,†he said, touching my face. Of course I was. The man I loved had killed for me. A lot of things became inconsequential…
— Sylvia Day
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64 authors contributed a total of 71 Inconsequential Quotes, led by these top contributors: