Quotes About Insignificant

I am merely an insignificant creature on a microscopic blue dot in the vastness of space.

Use common sense; don't magnify the importance of insignificant details; don't worry about bygones; and keep it simple. Focus, common sense, simplicity, and attitude

We discover that we are at the same time very insignificant and very important, because each of our actions is preparing the humanity of tomorrow; it is a tiny contribution to the construction of the huge and glorious final humanity

Many things receded into the distance behind him, seemed ridiculous or fantastical, or both. Were, at their core, unimportant.

p 22 end of 2nd paragraph – because her presence is not important- "Compared to those trees around the summerhouse she is the kind of meaningless tree the gets planted in the grassy areas of the car park of a supermarkets.

The peace of the land, the last islands of this peace, made me feel small. I welcomed the feeling. It was a pleasure to feel insignificant, to let my desires quiet, to feel, in the moment, the human body as an instrument attuned to peace.

I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they're dating or what clothes they're wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life.

God chooses to arrive among the poor and the insignificant and the politically awkward, so what are we missing when we overlook them?

I'm happy for all the small things a man never gets around to putting his finger on - the things we take for granted.

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Well— I feel so damn useless!

Sharpie darling, you are a floccinaucinihilipilificatrix.

It's just that sometimes things that you don't think are important turn out to be.

and my own helplessness in the face of it, makes everything I have done, everything I want to do, seem as unsubstantial as the little vows you make yourself as you're going to sleep, the ones you're already forgotten by the time you wake up

but one egg isn't good for anything at all

The most important thing to know about prehistoric humans is that they were insignificant animals with no more impact on their environment than gorillas, fireflies or jellyfish.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.

The things that disturb us at midnight are negligible at 9 a.m.

a recent review of the evidence concluded that there is a very small and statistically insignificant relationship between student evaluations and learning, and that "the more objectively learning is measured, the less likely it is to be related to the evaluations."48 Another review also concluded that "teacher ratings and learning are not closely related

He was of no more consequence than an empty cigarette packet.

He's such a cobweb, a pinch would annihilate him.

quite often happens that a phenomenon is insignificant only because one fails to take it into account."4 The missing dimension in our current understanding of the heat wave stems precisely from this kind of diagnostic failure.

N'est-ce pas l'une des vertus de l'écriture que de coucher sur la même feuille horizontale le futile et l'exceptionnel ? Tout reprend dans un livre l'épaisseur négligeable de l'encre écrasée.