Insignificant Quotes

390 quotes by 344 authors

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. — John Adams
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.… — John le Carre
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. — Jimmy Carter
We must reduce the emissions 100 percent. In Venezuela, the emissions are currently insignificant compared to the emissions of the developed countries. — Hugo Chavez
To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy. — Emile M. Cioran
Individual glory is insignificant when compared to achieving victory as a team. — Dot Richardson
...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion… — Arthur Koestler
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody. — Seneca the Younger
The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination -… — Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet
Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student. — Paulo Freire
It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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… — Anne Frank
When I had my sheep, I was happy, and I made those around me happy. People saw me coming and welcomed me, he thought. But… — Paulo Coelho
Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself. — Thomas Carlyle
An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all. — Lord Chesterfield
Sometimes when I am driving I get so angry at inconsiderate drivers that I want to scream at them. But then I remember how insignificant… — Ellen DeGeneres
Today I saw a red and yellow sunset and thought, how insignificant I am! Of course, I thought that yesterday too, and it rained. — Woody Allen
Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology deals with that… — Charles Lapworth
God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small. — Richard J. Foster
However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible. — Herbert Spencer

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