Insignificant Quotes

390 Insignificant quotes by 334 unique authors

The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among… — Stephen Hawking
They sense that there's a majority out there and that the emotions are all on the other side-if they can be heard. They think the… — Louis O. Kelso
The influence of mankind on climate is trivially true and numerically insignificant. — Richard Lindzen
Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or insignificant, but of… — John Burnside
Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant. — Peter Jackson
The date is not important. The age is not important. Time is not important. Life is very fleeting. It’s important to be gentle and optimistic.… — Oscar Niemeyer
A church is something very beautiful. It is nice when people feel happy in it. But I am not a religious man. Look at us,… — Oscar Niemeyer
You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else… — Henry David Thoreau
Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate; and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks… — Edward Abbey
What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading! — James Boswell
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise. — Horace
This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do… — Emile M. Cioran
We should never feel like we're going too far in breaking the law, because whatever laws you break to liberate animals or to protect the… — Paul Watson
The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything. — Gayle Forman
We’re constantly being bombarded by problems that we face and sometimes we can get completely overwhelmed. [But] we should always feel like a hummingbird. I… — Wangari Maathai
The idea of any social obligation [...] just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since the day before… — Fernando Pessoa
Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it;… — Friedrich Schiller
Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who… — Anna Akhmatova
Time is an ethereal and sometimes cruel goddess. In her relentless passing, she steals away our youth and vitality, often in ways that seem insignificant… — Unknown Author
If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would… — Plato
For many people during many centuries, mankind's history before the coming of Christianity was the history of the Jews and what they recounted of the… — John Roberts
Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event. That said, there are some *******s in the world that just need to… — James Mattis
There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications. — Laurence Overmire
At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me… — William Banting

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