Quotes About Insignificant

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.

She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little.

It's surprising how often history is decided by something as trival as bad shellfish.

consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ...

When a small, unassuming object exceeds our expectations, we are not only surprised but pleased. Our usual reaction is something like, "That little thing did all that?" Simplicity is about the unexpected pleasure derived from what is likely to be insignificant and would otherwise go unnoticed. The smaller the object, the more forgiving we can be when it misbehaves.

This is bigger than a fart in a bathtub, you know.

For me, little things matter.

We insignificant people with our daily words and acts are preparing the lives of many Dorotheas, some of which may present a far sadder sacrifice than that of the Dorothea whose story we know.

Could there be a slenderer, more insignificant thread in human history than this consciousness of a girl, busy with her small inferences of the way in which she could make her life pleasant?

But we insignificant people with our daily words and acts are preparing the lives of many Dorotheas, some of which may present a far sadder sacrifice than that of the Dorothea whose story we know.

Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.

The high five card will be an insignificant bonus to the incredible time I'll have traveling the world and meeting new people, especially fans of Nando's

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as well as the story. The voice as much as the words.

Say that we are a puff of warm breath in a very cold universe. By this kind of reckoning we are either immeasurably insignificant or we are incalculably precious and interesting. I tend toward the second view.

Say that we are a puff of warm breath in a very cold universe. By this kind of reckoning we are either immeasurably insignificant or we are incalculably precious and interesting.

Say that we are a puff of warm breath in a very cold universe. By this kind of reckoning we are either immeasurably insignificant, or we are incalculably precious and interesting. I tend toward the second view. Scarcity is said to create value, after all.

They could not eat it, and it could not eat them; therefore it was not important.

It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement. You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day.

Durante mucho tiempo ha sido un axioma mío que las cosas pequeñas son las más importantes.

They are important, you understand, without being interesting.

He never was worth the powder it'd take to blow him to hell.