Quotes About Insignificant

Unimportant, of course, I meant,' the King hastily said, and went on to himself in an undertone, 'important--unimportant-- unimportant--important--' as if he were trying which word sounded best.

The results are about as meaningful as a sixth toe - gives you something to look at, but doesn't do a damn thing.

The bigger the trophy, the more trivial the contest.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Somos para los dioses como moscas en manos de chiquillos caprichosos; nos matan como en un juego.

Pickled onions had nothing to do with moral imagination, but were important in their own quiet, vinegary way, Isabel supposed.

Sub specie aeternitatis, she thought: In the context of eternity, this is nothing, as are all our human affairs.

I know it may seem small and insignificant, but it's not about what it is, it's about what it can become. That's not a seed, any more than you're just a boy.

Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life

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

It is the small things in life which count; it is the inconsequential leak which empties the biggest reservoir.

No hay nada en nuestra vida que sea tan insignificante como para no merecer la atención de Dios.

I am small, but sometimes I am a small part of great things.

His words sounded foolish to his own ears. He was not impressive. He was small like the world.

When it takes place, the dreaded encounter is utterly insignificant, justifying none of my anxiety, but the next time is no different: I never learn to learn.

It didn't amount to a fart in a windstorm, nohow.

I am just a little fish in the sea. But I do understand that everything that I do could have a little impact.

In reality, if there are 200 people commenting on something online, it's less than a grain of salt in a huge beach of humanity - who cares?

And what my constitutional values are are wholly irrelevant to the job, and so neither you nor anyone else will know what they are.

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

Rome took all the vanity out of me, for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair. Why should you, with so much energy and talent? That's just why, because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try anymore.

The thought that, insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words, and so anxious to keep head contented and face happy, that she forgot her clothes, and made others do the same. She did not know it, but that good old fashion of simplicity made the plain gowns pretty, and the grace of unconsciousness beautified their little wearer with the charm that makes girlhood sweetest to those who truly love and reverence it.

Rome took all the vanity out of me,for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in dispare.

On principle' one can do anything and what one does is, fundamentally, a matter of indifference, just as a man's life remains insignificant even though 'on principle' he gives his support to all the 'needs of the times.