Top 1200 Insignificant Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail [in art] may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism.

Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.

One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.

The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.

It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant.

I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.

It's so bizarre, being in the rolling water, but I like how insignificant it makes me feel, that's a good head space to be in.

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

You are Insignificant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison. Fine. I don't you like you, either.

Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.

You can feel small, insignificant and insubstantial, but knowing the universe is in your tiny body should be enough to make you happy.

How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.

I saw corpses, and grew used to their unimportant look, for a dead man without any of the panoply of death is a desperately insignificant object.

Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this respect.

Being insignificant statistically doesn't mean it's right or wrong. It just means you don't have enough data to show yes or no.

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

If we looked inside ourselves and remembered how insignificant we are, just for a couple of minutes a day, respect for other people would be an automatic result.

Small daily - seemingly insignificant - improvements and innovations lead to staggering achievements over time.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and fell off his perch.

An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

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

Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.

Electorally, the number of women who want to wear a burka is insignificant, yet it is important to defend such a minority against the tyranny of the majority.

No design, no matter how common or seemingly insignificant, is without its adamant critics as well as its ardent admirers.

God is concerned that Christians live consistent with their profession even in the seemingly small and insignificant areas of life.

Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead.

Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.

God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small.

When people really understand the Big Bang and the whole sweep of the evolution of the universe, it will be clear that humans are fairly insignificant.

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.

Small, seemingly insignificant steps completed consistently over time will create a radical difference

Yeah, but you’re a god of fate. Can’t you change that? (Kat) You’re thinking like a child, Katra. Things that appear simple very seldom are. It’s like the mechanic who goes to fix the carburetor and in doing so accidentally puts a hole in the radiator and causes even more damage. Every person on this planet is connected. Sometimes those lines are easy to see, and others are more complex. You change one insignificant thing and you change the very core of humanity. (Acheron)

I would like to believe that all the roles I have portrayed so far - no matter how significant or insignificant they are - have been appreciated by the audience.

No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about...One thing's for sure—no one but you can be the hero of your story.

Words had become overnight just little coins, insignificant and unfreighted, to be exchanged for ribbons, buttons, for an apple or an egg.

Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase?

Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.

All Americans deserve to see, speak to, and hear from our candidates. No county is insignificant, no community too small, and each person's vote is important.

This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique - and insignificant.

Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.

... God uses such seemingly insignificant ways to prepare us for the plan He has for our lives.

Linnea.... A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space - from Linnaeus who resembles it.

Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.

If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.

For me, glamour has nothing to do with make-up and costumes. Even the most insignificant thing can seem glamorous if viewed with the right perception!

I don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant one, matters.

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

As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.

The sole purpose of a crown is to make anyone not wearing one feel like an insignificant pauper. They're obscene to the point of satire.

We have cellphones and smartphones and iDevices and laptops and the ability to be perpetually connected. We never have to miss anything, significant or insignificant.

The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.

Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

I've always been baffled by how much we over-rate the statistically insignificant differences that separate competitors at the top end of the distribution.

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

There is something more important than the place being left. It's that swell of crushing emptiness that makes the insignificant seem anything but.