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Quotes About Insignificant

Once severed from the future, the past becomes an insignificant parade of trivial events, no longer organic, no longer potent or painful.
~ Trevanian
the world of the human soul suddenly seemed so vast as to make even the raging war seen insignificant.
~ Vasily Grossman
working under him made him feel less
~ Kyle Mills
Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great things.
~ La Rochefoucauld
It was a very small wish. These beads were just scuppies,
~ Laini Taylor
How insignificant mere money seeking looks in comparison with a serene life—a life that dwells in the ocean of Truth, beneath the waves, beyond the reach of tempests, in the Eternal Calm! How
~ James Allen
The man of self regards the loss of his wealth, his comforts, or his life as the greatest calamities which can befall him. The man of principle looks upon these incidents as comparatively insignificant, and not to be weighed with loss of character, loss of Truth.
~ James Allen
A thing which is of no moment itself may be made of importance in the way of competition.
~ James Fenimore Cooper
Little things matter. Even a small tear wets the face.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
My stance has always been that my issue compared to everything else going on in the world is really, really small. Once you realize that, you can get a lot more out of being a part of the solution.
~ Zach Anner
I am more aware of the world now, the tiny insignificant things especially. I am beginning to be more childlike. For an artist this may have some advantages.
~ Thomas DeBaggio
A cash-bought merit badge ain't worth shit.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
This is how we must look to God.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Let us be trivial, let us be intimate.)
~ Virginia Woolf
Prompted by the sky, which seemed to make it all a little futile—what they said, what they did—she said something perfectly commonplace again.
~ Virginia Woolf
It's about nothing, everything else is about something; this, it's about nothing.
~ Larry David
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.
~ Charles A. Cerami
Trifles make the sum of life.
~ Charles Dickens
It isn't that," said Scrooge, heated by the remark, and speaking unconsciously like his former, not his latter, self. "It isn't that, Spirit. He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.
~ Charles Dickens
It isn't that, Spirit. He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.
~ Charles Dickens
He has the power to render us happy or unhappy, to make our service light or burdensome, a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks, in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up; what then? The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.
~ Charles Dickens
Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: What then? The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.
~ Charles Dickens
What we are trying to do may be just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
~ Greg Mortenson
The entry wound cried a single tear of blood. Such an insignificant wound, but Death was nesting in it.
~ Guillermo del Toro