Insignificant Quotes - Page 5

• It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.

  John Henry Jowett

  Sorrow, Cultivation, Multitudes

  John Henry Jowett (1910). “The School of Calvary”

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• 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.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Differences, Baffled, Ends

  "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

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• I'm a mumbler. If I'm walking with a friend, and I say something, he says, "What?" So I say it again, and he says, "What?" Really, it's just some insignificant stuff I'm saying, but now I'm yelling, "That tree is far away!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Yelling

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• Be sure to remember that nothing in your daily life is so insignificant and so inconsequential that the Lord will not help you by answering your prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Helping, Remember

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• At least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians have no cultural power. We're still placed in the past. So we're either in the past or we're only viewed through casinos.

  Sherman Alexie

  Country, Past, Thinking

  "Sherman Alexie on Living Outside Cultural Borders". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. April 12, 2013.

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• There's nothing tiny or insignificant. Everything is significant. And everything flows on the same basis of Laws. Whether you are looking at world events or something that's happening in your kitchen drawer, broad and important, or narrow and seemingly insignificant, there's potential for connection or disconnection in either case. And it is only the connection or the disconnection that is of really any importance.

  Esther Hicks

  Law, Kitchen, Important

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• The extraordinarily facile and in literary terms long lived works tend to be about ordinary people. Even Sappho writes about the utterly insignificant . What art can do is make the extraordinary more ordinary and ordinary more extraordinary.

  Robert Dessaix

  Art, Writing, Long

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• Time is an ethereal and sometimes cruel goddess. In her relentless passing, she steals away our youth and vitality, often in ways that seem insignificant until we finally realize how much she has taken. Still, she is also a generous deity, who offers to replace what she has seized with a deeper wisdom and a clearer vision of life's enigmas. In this sense, time can be our most powerful ally-if we are patient enough.

  Michael Kelleher

  Inspirational, Powerful, Taken

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• What is it about maps and globes that seems to require our undivided attention? I've spent hours looking at maps of places I will never see and maps so old that they are a record of nothing but the faintest glow of the past. Perhaps they turn us into gods, letting us look down at the insignificant drones that occupy the earth. Or maybe they simply feed off our hunger to go off into the unknown. Venturing off to places where people don't chain themselves to tedious jobs and financial debts but places of imagination, mystery and freedom Perhaps they're just trying to tell us something.

  Dan Kieran

  Jobs, Past, People

  Tom Hodgkinson, Dan Kieran (2010). “The Book of Idle Pleasures”, p.48, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• [I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now we use coal whenever we produce electric power by steam engine, but there will be a time when there'll be no more coal to use. That time is not in the very distant future. ... Oil is too insignificant in its available supply to come into much consideration.

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz

  Science, Electric Power, Oil

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• Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, humiliate, betray, envy... . And special in this is the child's feeling that the parents' love, their Christian charity, honesty, generosity ... may be only a pretense.

  Karen Horney

  Christian, Honesty, Children

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• Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  School, Humility, Science

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.197, Courier Corporation

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• There is nothing insignificant-nothing.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Significance

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The Poetical and Dramatic Works of S. T. Coleridge. With a Life of the Author”, p.146

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

  Corrie Ten Boom

  God, Use, Way

  Corrie Ten Boom, Pam Rosewell Moore (2004). “Life Lessons from Corrie Ten Boom”

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• It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Spring, Men, Profound

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King who could do no wrong, governments ordain, judge, condemn, and punish the most insignificant offenses, while maintaining themselves by the greatest of all offenses, the annihilation of individual liberty.

  Emma Goldman

  Kings, Government, Self

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.38, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side.

  William McFee

  Men, Sides, Warning

  William McFee (1916). “Casuals of the Sea: The Voyage of a Soul”

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• Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to transform insignificant childhood hurts into private shrines at which they worship unceasingly the enormity of the offenses committed against them. This solution is immensely flattering to the patients -- as are all forms of unmerited self-aggrandizement; it is immensely profitable for the analysts -- as are all forms pandering to people's vanity; and it is often immensely unpleasant for nearly everyone else in the patient's life.

  Thomas Szasz

  Hurt, Vanity, Self

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• We are aware of yoga only as a technique to gain physical strength, flexibility, or increased health. And indeed these are potent side effects of the practice. But that is what they are: side effects. To focus on these largely insignificant manifestations is to miss the point entirely.

  John McAfee

  Yoga, Practice, Focus

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• I'm not a weight lifter. I'm a seeker. Weight lifting is so insignificant in my life.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Weight Lifting, Seekers, Weight

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• A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Country, Men, Long

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works: Hyperion”, p.110

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• We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Giving, World, Accepting

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.770, Delphi Classics

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• One of the proud joys of the man of letters - if that man of letters is an artist - is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Memories, Book, Artist

  Statement on February 08, 1868. "Pages from the Goncourt Journal". Book by Edmond de Goncourt, translated by Robert Baldick, p. 135, 1962.

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• Nature is the clearest source of solitude. The greatness of nature can overwhelm the insignificant chatter by which we measure most of our days. If you have the wisdom and the courage to go to nature alone, the larger rhythms, the eternal hum, will make itself known all the sooner. When you have found it, it will always be there for you. The peace without will become the peace within, and you will be able to return to it in your heart wherever you find yourself.

  Kent Nerburn

  Nature, Heart, Greatness

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life”, p.56, New World Library

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• I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our insignificant race in a tiny corner of the universe, and still less in us, as still more insignificant individuals. Again, I see no reason why the belief that we are insignificant or fortuitous should lessen our faith.

  Rosalind Franklin

  Believe, Science, Race

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