Insignificant Quotes

390 Insignificant quotes by 334 unique authors

The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such… — Karl Kraus
Linnea.... A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space - from Linnaeus who resembles it. — Carl Linnaeus
Most people are too busy working on insignificant projects and pursuing life's frivolities to tap their creative abilities. It's a mistake to be one of… — Ernie J Zelinski
GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the… — Ambrose Bierce
I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in… — Rosalind Franklin
[I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now we use coal… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz
The insignificant labor; the great create. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion,… — Charlie Chaplin
Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted… — Pliny the Elder
All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever… — Mark Twain
The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details. — William Hazlitt
While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose... — Claude Monet
I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it coincided… — Ian Mcewan
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick… — James F. Cooper
I really don't care about the response to my hair this is just how my hair is. I don't take care of it, or comb… — Steve Nash
Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people, not from overwhelming… — Alexander Theroux
Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. — Charles Saatchi
We're too insignificant and small to really be able to do anything, except cry, not unhappily, but an inner cry, a feeling of reaching to… — Frederick Lenz
Know that, as in life, there is much that many have looked upon but few have seen because, as my father told me and his… — Odysseas Elytis
I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it's possible to say anything about them. And I almost always… — Karl Ove Knausgard
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society. — Vladimir Lenin
There are always meaningful songs for somebody. People are doing their courting, people are finding their wives, people are making babies, people are washing their… — Leonard Cohen
All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind , pinned… — Joseph Conrad
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it. — Mahatma Gandhi

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