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Quotes About Unimportant

I was at an all-girls' school, so there were a lot of us who were really awkward. I was this tall when I was 11, so I was really awkward and self-conscious. No one would really have wanted to be mean to me. I was too unimportant.
~ Sigourney Weaver
Our culture often demeans and devalues the work, the pleasures, and the contributions of women and feminine people. This is, in part, why beauty culture is dismissed as unimportant and frivolous.
~ Janet Mock
In some ways, the real damage of Gamergate is pushing the public's idea of sexism so far to the extreme, that changes in the professional sphere seem unimportant.
~ Brianna Wu
the momentous arises only from the trivial.
~ Cory Doctorow
What affects useless singularities has surely a little mind.
~ lavater johann kaspar ii
seemed like small potatoes.
~ Lemony Snicket
you seem to be displaying signs of triviality.
~ Oscar Wilde
To speak of it would be giving importance to something that has none.
~ Leo Tolstoy
It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.
~ Toni Morrison
With no pretensions of art, Viva Las Vegas, the new Elvis Presley vehicle, is about as pleasant and unimportant as a Banana Split.
~ Howard Thompson
This is an idea, I suppose, which has arisen in Judge Douglas's mind from his peculiar structure. I suppose the institution of slavery really looks small to him. He is so put up by nature that a lash upon his back would hurt him, but a lash upon anybody else's back does not hurt him. That is the build of the man, and consequently he looks upon the matter of slavery in this unimportant light.
~ Unknown
Don't think that you were born to gain this or that level of comfort. You were born to study pain and the causes of pain, and to follow the practice that frees you from pain. This is the most important thing there is. Everything else is trivial and unimportant. All that's important lies with the practice.
~ Unknown
If there are other rules, I have forgotten them, and if I've forgotten them it is because they don't matter.
~ Philip Pullman
Anyway, it's hardly a problem worth worrying about.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Some mediæval straw-splitting about the nature of the Trinity, which is only useful to-day to show how many things are unimportant to us, which once shook the world
~ W.B. Yeats
I had that fractional part of consciousness left which gave me a remote and unimportant view of reality. The world was a television set at the other end of a dark auditorium, with blurred sound and a fringe area picture.
~ John D. MacDonald
A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.
~ Thomas Carlyle
insignificant enough
~ Mary McGarry Morris
That was it. No one needed her. She was superfluous to the universe.
~ Matt Haig
Tod didn't laugh at the man's rhetoric. He knew it was unimportant. What mattered were his messianic rage and the emotional response of his hearers. They sprang to their feet, shaking their fists and shouting.
~ Nathanael West
Being disappeared who was protected by none, dear to none, interesting to none, and who never even attracted to himself the attention of those students of human nature who omit no opportunity of thrusting a pin through a common fly, and examining it under the microscope.
~ Nikolai Gogol
It would be terrible to be small and foolish.
~ Octavia E. Butler