Quotes with insignificant

  • 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.
  • Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

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  • Aldous Huxley All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Peter Cook As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.
    Peter Cook
    English satirist and comedic actor (1937 - 1995)
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  • Ben Affleck 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.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Ralph Ransom Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
    Ralph Ransom
    American art painter
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  • Anne Sullivan People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Marcel Proust 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 comma bacillus.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Ada Leverson She thought that most women make a great mistake in allowing dress to be the master instead of the servant of their good looks; many women were, she considered, entirely crushed and made insignificant by the beauty of their clothes.
    Tenterhooks (1912)
    Ada Leverson
    British writer (1862 - 1933)
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  • John F. Boyes Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.
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  • Seneca Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Karl Marx 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.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.
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  • Adam Gottlob Oehlenschlager The plays of natural lively children are the infancy of art. Children live in a world of imagination and feeling. They invest the most insignificant object with any form they please, and see in it whatever they wish to see.
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  • Charles Horton Cooley There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Baba Kalyani 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
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Norman Mailer 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.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Cat Stevens When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Carl Sagan 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
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Anna Akhmatova 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.
    Anna Akhmatova
    Russian poet (1889 - 1966)
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