Insignificance Quotes
Insignificance Quote of the day
The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.
If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.
There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.
Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.
Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.
Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God
I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.
It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.
When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance."- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death
What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance.
Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.
One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.
For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.
Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it.
The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.
There are girls, not specially beautiful, whom you could not lose in a crowd. There are other girls, apparently perfect in beauty, who seem to melt into insignificance.
Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance.
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.
She would simply wait on the bridge, calm and obstinate, until events, real events, not her own fantasies, roe to her challenge, and dispelled her insignificance.
There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.
Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter.
Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant.
Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty.
There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair, Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem From insignificance.
If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now.
Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.
A celebration of insignificance, Is that all we are in the end? And one day I’ll just be one more of those faces, frozen in death and wonder
it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.
When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
A great many persons are able to become Members of this House without losing their insignificance.
Spring, love, happiness! Are you not weary of that stupid, meaningless, constantly repeated fraud? Always the same and always a fraud! There is no spring, no sun, no happiness!
To realize that everything in the universe is connected is to both accept our insignificance and understand our importance in it.
Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression.
His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme.
The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.
This day, you are free, because you have chosen to be free – and because of your choice, your days of insignificance are over.