Insignificant Quotes
390 Insignificant quotes by 334 unique authors
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The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its…
— Aberjhani
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Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will point to him…
— Desmond Tutu
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We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I'm not a weight lifter. I'm a seeker. Weight lifting is so insignificant in my life.
— Sri Chinmoy
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We are aware of yoga only as a technique to gain physical strength, flexibility, or increased health. And indeed these are potent side effects of…
— John McAfee
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Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to transform insignificant childhood…
— Thomas Szasz
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The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either…
— William McFee
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Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King who could do no wrong, governments ordain, judge, condemn, and…
— Emma Goldman
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It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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... God uses such seemingly insignificant ways to prepare us for the plan He has for our lives.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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There is nothing insignificant-nothing.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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An idol tells people exactly what to believe, God presents them with choices they have to make for themselves. The difference is far from insignificant;…
— Arthur Miller
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Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
— Miguel de Unamuno
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Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse,…
— Karen Horney
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One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within himself the power…
— Edmond de Goncourt
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Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.
— Thomas Sydenham
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If you write, good ideas must come welling up into you so that you have something to write. If good ideas do not come at…
— Brenda Ueland
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Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast…
— Walter Lang
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I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor…
— Randall Munroe
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Nature is the clearest source of solitude. The greatness of nature can overwhelm the insignificant chatter by which we measure most of our days. If…
— Kent Nerburn
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With the exception of very few who have gained higher spiritual tendencies in prior lives, Self-realization is not possible for anyone without the blessings of…
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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This brief century of ours is arguably the most significant one in the history of our universe. We'll have the technology either to self-destruct, or…
— Max Tegmark
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Most people get overwhelmed by the insignificant decisions of their lives. I'm urging people to minimize the time spent on these when they're not critical…
— Robert Pozen
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The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life…
— America Ferrera
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