Quotes About Insignificant

the process of dreaming transfers psychical intensity from what is important, but also objectionable, onto what is insignificant.

Such a series of hammer blows! Mankind, it seemed, was now suddenly really rather—dare one say it?—insignificant. He may not after all have been, as he had eternally supposed, specially created. The Book of Genesis, believed by so many to be Holy Writ, was perhaps no more than the stuff of myth and ancient legend. And now even the continents themselves, long supposed to be the most reliable and unshifting bedrock of our very existence, had become mobile.

Maud's manner indicated that the falsity of the story was an insignificant flaw in its general delightfulness.

What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!

Was she supposed to be impressed? If waste was impressive, she was overwhelmed.

busying herself with inconsequential tasks.

Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.

The intrinsic value of a book does not depend on the importance of its subject (else the theologians would prevail, and mightily), but on the manner of approaching the accidental and the insignificant, of mastering the infinitesimal. The essential has never required the least talent.

I was just a tiny part of a huge universe, and nothing really mattered. Every single thing was temporary, and one day all of us would be gone without trace. It was an intensely soothing thought.

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from trifles springs– Oh! let the ungentle spirit learn from thence A small unkindness is a great offence.

If you are dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.

The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. – Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed

We have the wrong impression of life. We think the very big incidents of our lives are consequences of huge dilemmas or major decisions. If we paid attention, we'd realize that the determining incidents in our lives are ordinary things.

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 of the store or the factory is insignificant.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it into the history books.

To be honest, I don't have much to do in 'Hathyar.' I won't call it a pivotal role.

But she suspects that some people's courage stems from the fact that they attach little importance to themselves—and great importance to others. They see themselves as the cosmos might—small to the point of insignificant. But they let others loom large.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

It's about glowing lights and small things that are big.

It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true— big things are often just small things that are noticed.

How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs.

And once again, only the Small Things were said. The Big Things lurked unsaid inside.

We know we are just insignificant parts of the universe, but each of us is the entire universe.