Insignificant Quotes

• The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband’s family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.

  

  Sarah Wayne Callies
  • Love
  • Age
  • Night

• We manufacture automotive components including critical engine and axle parts for passenger cars, diesel engines and medium & heavy commercial vehicles. Till 1997, our focus was almost entirely on the domestic market with a relatively insignificant portion of revenues from exports.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Focus
  • Insignificant
  • Till

• It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.

  

  William P. Young
  • Action
  • Remarkable
  • Insignificant

• We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Gift
  • Marvelous
  • Insignificant

• However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Liberty
  • Minorities
  • Trifling

• It just makes so many other things insignificant. It is the most incredible thing that has happened to me, and I feel so lucky to have found the person I want to be with, and to be prepared and enthusiastic.

  

  Ryan Phillippe
  • Person
  • Enthusiastic
  • Insignificant

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

  

  Carl Linnaeus
  • Space
  • Plant
  • Flowering

• If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Stronger
  • Meaningless
  • Unworthy

• 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
  • Science
  • Teach

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

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • God
  • Insignificant

• An insignificant right becomes important when it is assailed.

  

  William Pickens
  • Important
  • Insignificant
  • Assailed

• Anything you think of doing, however insignificant, should be done immediately. Spur yourself on and carry it through without becoming discouraged. If this becomes an ingrained habit, things you thought were impossible will become possible, and closed doors will open, as you will discover in many ways.

  

  Shinichi Suzuki
  • Habit
  • Impossible
  • Discouraged

• No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Attention
  • Judged
  • Insignificant

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

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Critics
  • Details
  • Faults

• Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.

  

  Sun Myung Moon
  • World
  • Individual
  • Foolish

• Everything that we do is insignificant...and...it is very important that we do it!

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Important
  • Insignificant

• Not being able to fully understand God is frustrating but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable of comprehending. What a stunted, insignificant god that would be! If my mind is the size of a soda can and God is the size of all the oceans, it would be stupid for me to say He is only the small amount of water I can scoop into my little can. God is so much bigger, so far beyond our time-encased, air/food/sleep-dependent lives.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Mind
  • Water
  • Sleep

• In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem insignificant; others loom so large that they are hard to encompass with one synthetic glance. But in this crude form they are not scientific facts at all; they are absolutely elusive, and can be fixed only by interpretation, by seeing them sub specie aeternitatis, by grasping what is essential in them and fixing this. Only laws and generalizations are scientific facts, and field work consists only and exclusively in the interpretation of the chaotic social reality, in subordinating it to general rules.

  

  Bronislaw Malinowski
  • Reality
  • Chaos
  • Scientific Facts

• We're not talking about insignificant amounts of code. It's substantial System V code showing up in Linux.

  

  Darl McBride
  • Amount
  • Code
  • Showing

• It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Half
  • Insignificant
  • Reckon

• 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.

  

  Richard Ojeda
  • Community
  • Deserve
  • Candidates

• The whole world says that my Way is great like nothing else. It is great because it is like nothing else. If it were like everything else, it would long ago have become insignificant.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Way
  • Insignificant

• Faith takes root in the insignificant.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • Faith
  • Root
  • Insignificant

• No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt.

  

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
  • Man
  • Example
  • Insignificant

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