Insignificant Quotes

390 Insignificant quotes by 334 unique authors

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. — Khalil Gibran
There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I used to go to the Improvisation Comedy Club every night in Times Square. How I didn't get killed in that area either means that… — Gilbert Gottfried
Now here's what I'm saying: I've always believed that every other month we hear about compromisation of bank records, I think that's the CIA and… — Dick Gregory
Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it. — Franz Grillparzer
There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time. — Charles Horton Cooley
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.'… — Vin Diesel
Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're… — Rita Dove
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the… — John Drinkwater
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. — Bob Feller
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… — William Hazlitt
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. — Anne Sullivan Macy
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… — Norman Mailer
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… — Karl Marx
One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let those who are… — Viggo Mortensen
Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible. — Simon Newcomb
Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. — Joyce Carol Oates
Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. It may be the case that we… — Joyce Carol Oates
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… — Paul Ricoeur
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… — Carl Sagan
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… — James Sinegal
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… — Cat Stevens
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… — Virginia Woolf
All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,… — Walt Whitman
I wake up like this, this sense that I've somehow been transported to an alternate universe where my life took a left instead of a… — Jonathan Tropper

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