Quotes About Being Insignificant

#1. It is good to feel small beneath the sparkling northern lights, small beside the mighty river. Nature is so close to us up here. My troubles and difficulties just shrivel up. I like being insignificant.

Asa Larsson

#2. 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.

Jimmy Carter

#3. We need to remain childlike. Children don't dream of being insignificant.

Bill Johnson

#4. 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.

Vin Diesel

#5. I go to the Natural History Museum and look at the cage of stuffed starlings there. But my favourite thing is the big blue whale. The scale of it is unbelievable, and makes you feel how insignificant you are as a human being.

Arthur Darvill

#6. Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or insignificant, but of being part of a rich and complex narrative.

John Burnside

#7. For I never care to do a thing in a quiet way; it's got to be theatrical or I don't take any interest in it.

Mark Twain

#8. Every word you utter to another human being has an effect, but you don't know it. If people begin to understand that change comes about as a result of a million tiny acts that seem totally insignificant, well then, they wouldn't hesitate to take those tiny acts.

Howard Zinn

#9. An event may be small and insignificant in its origin , and yet, when drawn close to one's eye, it may open in its center an infinite and radiant perspective because a higher order of being is trying to express itself in it and irradiates it violently.

Bruno Schulz

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

Thucydides

#11. I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.

Randall Munroe

#12. People who personify the system are indeed well known for not being what they seem to be; they have achieved greatness by embracing a level of reality lower than that of the most insignificant individual life- and everyone knows it.

Guy Debord

#13. Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

E. M. Forster

#14. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of earth abd his earthy being, and become half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant.

Milan Kundera

#15. No matter what happened yesterday it is insignificant when compared to what lies within the core of your being today.

Sandy Brewer

#16. The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.

Thomas Merton

#17. Perhaps the book opened a door; books have a way of causing ripples.

Erika Swyler

#18. Could it be, God forbid, that nationality is only a superficial, insignificant layer of the onion that is your being? What would you think of the man who would say of himself 'I am an overcoat' just because he happened to be wearing one?

Jean-Christophe Valtat

#19. Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate; and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze.

Edward Abbey

#20. Alone. It was such an insignificant word. Or it had been for centuries. He'd sought out the solitude, had slept away centuries in his cave without hesitation. And now? Now he hated the quiet.
He detested being alone.

Donna Grant

#21. I know about raising money.

Nancy Pelosi

#22. People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus.

Marcel Proust

#23. I guess something people wouldn't expect me to listen to are artists like Alicia Keys. But she is so incredibly talented. She has this huge voice and great work ethic, which I really respect in an artist. She is also very humble and gracious and devoted to her skill.

Zola Jesus

#24. Do you remember that old song? 'She wore an itsy bitsy, teeny weeny, yellow polka dot bikini ...

Linda Weaver Clarke

#25. Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth?

Aldo Leopold

#26. The most insignificant of Strickland's works suggests a personality which is strange, tormented, and complex; and it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this which has excited so curious an interest in his life and character.

W. Somerset Maugham

#27. I am thankful for the way I was raised, to be positive. Even when times have gotten rough I have always tried to look on the bright side. Even when I was put down, yelled at and made feel insignificant, I still thought things were alright. I did realize when enough is enough.

Angela Merkel

#28. Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.

David Deutsch

#29. It is better to be unsuccessful pursuing a significant goal that being successful attaining an insignificant one.

Michael Josephson

#30. The social world being the realm of nullity, there exist between the merits of women in society only insignificant degrees,

Marcel Proust

#31. Stop attaching so much weight to being right. In the grand scheme of things, being right is insignificant compared with being happy.

Deepak Chopra

#32. If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am constantly doing by being what I am.

Henry David Thoreau

#33. People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.

Marcel Proust

#34. We take care of the people, the products, and the profits - in that order." It's a simple saying, but it's deep. "Taking care of the people" is the most difficult of the three by far and if you don't do it, the other two won't matter. Taking

Ben Horowitz