Quotation Explorer - 'Insignificant'

I believe that a revolution can begin from this one strand of straw. Seen at a glance, this rice straw may appear light and insignificant. Hardly anyone would believe that it could start a revolution. Nevertheless, I have come to realize the weight and power of this straw. - Fukuoka , Masanobu
This is the great world, and I am only Kim. Who is Kim?' He considered his own identity, a thing he had never done before, till his head swam. He was one insignificant person in all this roaring whirl of India, going southward to he knew not what fate. - Rudyard Kipling
The stars looked down at me from infinite space. We are tiny, they said, but you are insignificant. - Shane Maloney
Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.
Almost anything you do is insignificant, But it is very important that you do it.
I believe in the possible. I believe, small though we are, insignificant though we may be, we can reach a full understanding of the universe. You were right when you said you felt small, looking up at all that up there. We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things. - Stephen Hawking
A gift can never be cheap or insignificant because of the heart and love it carries. - Munia Khan
When people view their lives as insignificant, they escape using pleasure. - Moxie Will
Make a little effort to give up your insignificant quarrels and eventually a better world will follow. - Abhijit Naskar
People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you. - Dennis E. Adonis
Not everything that's small is insignificant. - Adra
A billion stars above us coat the sky white. It would have been beautiful back home, but not here. Here it is the ever present reminder that we are all alone and insignificant. - Jennifer Arnett
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. - Carl Sagan
The beauty all around you is insignificant in comparison to the beauty within you. - Matshona Dhliwayo
When national ideals are confined to insignificant issues reflective primarily of a personal choice, there lies a problem of distorted priorities. - Moutasem Algharati
Live life fully in the present & enjoy the small things in life that give you joy, for the seemingly small & insignificant moments add up to a greater whole. - Orchid Ch'ng
If I hate a person, then I must still love him as well.. For the insignificant ones, I don't hate.. I just lose interest and become indifferent.. - Laarni Venus Marie
The city has a way of reminding you how insignificant you are, - The Sound of Serendipity   –   Cynthia A. Rodriguez
For a significant manwoman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Sometimes when I am driving I get so angry at inconsiderate drivers that I want to scream at them. But then I remember how insignificant that is, and I thank God that I have a car and my health and gas. That was phrased wrong - normally you wouldn't say, thank God I have gas. - Ellen DeGeneres
You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth - Odysseus Elytis
Still, all it really took was one alteration in my life, a change which appeared insignificant and unlikely at the time, nonetheless it has affected my outlook completely, turning it around the compass of my life. - Andrew James Pritchard
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant. - Aldous Huxley
They said my dreams were too insignificant to matter, and they might just be right. The thing however is, I owe it to myself to find out if they are. The only way I can do that is to keep dreaming and living my dream. If in the end they are right, at least I can tell myself I did my best. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi
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. - Marilynne Robinson
God doesn’t put that much prep into something that is insignificant. - Shannon L. Alder
Everybody is living for a purpose, you might turn out to be significant or insignificant depending on the kind of message you are feeding the world with. - Michael Bassey Johnson
I am merely an insignificant creature on a microscopic blue dot in the vastness of space. - Abhijit Naskar
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. - Virginia Woolf
You are not as insignificant as you have often been told, nor are you any more significant than you have often told yourself. - Maureen Moss
Healing doesn’t mean forgetting or making the memories insignificant. Healing means refocusing - American Pregnancy Association
Though our paths may have diverged, you must continue to live out your life with all your might, you must never consider your own life to be something insignificant, and you must never forget about your friends for as long as you live. - Hiro Mashima
The universe had no choice but to create intelligent life so that there would be someone else that could simply laugh at how unbelievably, ridiculously and senselessly huge the universe is and how utterly insignificant the rest of us are. - Ian Strang
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that 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. - Thomas Merton
You know, I'm like Avis rent-a-car: Because I'm insignificant, I try harder. - Mike Carey
Until we will be able to shape the universe the way we wanted, mankind will not be taken seriously by the universe and he shall remain as insignificant ants of the universe! - Mehmet Murat ildan
No wonder the sky had to be blotted out by advertisements. The stars drowned with lights. If everyone could see beyond Coalition horizons, perhaps they'd see the titans of humanity for what they were: tiny creatures, smaller than insects, and in the scale of things, every bit as insignificant. - S.J. Kincaid
No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Put your heart into even the smallest seemingly insignificant acts possible. Then be patient enough for the universe to give back to you what you reap. - Matthew Donnelly
Vaig entendre que només som la part insignificant d'una cadena de paradoxes. ¿O potser no és una paradoxa que allò que en diuen amor sovint acaba sent un desacord entre infeliços? - Ferran Torrent
To gain significance, you must first realise that you are insignificant. - Manoj Vaz
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. - Mahatma Gandhi
The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it. - Carl Becker
To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable. - Ludwig van Beethoven
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