Quotes About Insignificant

How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.

Vice president is the bridesmaid, and nobody cares about you. Nobody wants you. You're just in the way. You're there to play a subsidiary role. You're like the middle child or the poor relation.

An inferior sense of smell, Marcus said, as if absolutely nothing of significance had happened, is distinct from being told that one smells unpleasant.

Those who say that simple things don't matter should ask a lion how he feels when a fly enters a nostril.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

attention to trifles is inconsistent with great genius of every kind

There was an absurdity to places far, a sense of insignificant people scratching meaningless earth. Let them die, she would sometimes think, whenever she heard tidings of famine in Ainon or plague in Nilnamesh. What are these people to me? These places? A fool … that's what she had been.

Used as he was to general approbation of his person, he was amused to discover that his vanity was mildly affronted at her plain astonishment that such an insignificant sort as himself should be brother to the darkly dramatic Edgar DeVane. (Haunted Soldier)

But the Indians gesture touched me. It was nothing, but it was everthing. It took so little to mane a difference.

I am an ordinary citizen and quite insignificant, but I am also a vigilant and committed journalist.

Meaninglessness woos us into spending our one shot at life on insignificant and trivial things. If we are not vigilant, we drift from God's glorious ambition for our lives, losing sight of anything remotely grand, trading God-instilled passion for an easier and more often traveled road. And if our hearts aren't awakened by majesty, our lives soon shrink into little bits of nothingness.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

To make a mistake is insignificant. To play without passion is inexcusable.

It wont matter in a year and it wont be remembered in 10 years.

Pick a number between 0 and 0. That's the number of fu..s I give.

I have written a number of short biographical studies of insignificant personages from literary history. My interest has always been in writing biographies of the also-rans: people who lived in the shadow of fame in their own lifetime and who, since their death, have sunk into profound obscurity.

It's a blip, not a catastrophe.

An arrow shot into the sea, it can hurt no one.

The motivations for human action were depressingly trivial.

But what I've got to do if I'm to keep any self-respect at all, he thought, rising stiffly from the bench, while his teeth chattered, is to accept my cowardice, take it all for granted, and think of myself as a nervous insignificant book-worm, who can't do anything but teach Latin and be petted by Miss Le Fleau!

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical, and I was never accomplished at that. 'I

Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

Faith takes root in the insignificant.

And now he had bestowed the long-awaited honor upon the most unlikely of us, small and ungrateful and probably cursed.