Insignificant Quotes

Christendom appears clearly to me to be one of those trifling, insignificant arts, which has never been of any substantial advantage to mankind.

Now here's what I'm saying: I've always believed that every other month we hear about compromisation of bank records, I think that's the CIA and the FBI. Now let me tell you why I'm saying this. I don't believe no insignificant pip-squeak is going to be able to pull this off month after month and we can't find out what's going on.

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

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.

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed.

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.

I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis.

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

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.

Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was insignificant or a mere reflection of economic forces.

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

You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.

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.

At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

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

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

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.

What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!

Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.

It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

The most insignificant score is the score at halftime.