Inconsequential Quotes - Page 4

• The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Greatness, World, Goodness

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• Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.

  Ann Leckie

  Decision, Feelings, Emotion

  "Ancillary Justice". Book by Ann Leckie, Orbit Books, Chapter 6 (p. 88), October 1, 2013.

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• I discovered a long time ago that writing of the small things of the day, the trivial matters of the heart, the inconsequential but near things of this living, was the only kind of creative work which I could accomplish with any sincerity or grace. As a reporter, I was a flop, because I always came back laden not with facts about the case, but with a mind full of the little difficulties and amusements I had encountered in my travels.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Heart, Long

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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• Although there are real hazards in saying yes to life, they are inconsequential when compared to the regrets that come with saying "no".

  Eda LeShan

  Regret, Real, Saying Yes

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• If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.

  Timothy Keller

  Ifs

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• Most importantly, postmodernism comes down on the side of photography and power, not photography as power. As a consequence, photography continues to be conceived as an inconsequential vehicle or passage for real powers that always originate elsewhere.

  Geoffrey Batchen

  Photography, Real, Sides

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• My life is a vast inconsequential epic.

  Jack Kerouac

  Epic, Life Is

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “Desolation Angels”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• Have you ever been bitten by an elephant? How about a mosquito? It's the little things in life that will bite you. For most of us, it's the frequent, small and seemingly inconsequential choices that are of grave concern.

  Darren Hardy

  Things In Life, Elephants, Choices

  Darren Hardy (2011). “The Compound Effect”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• Those that are goofy enough to believe the outrageous lies and hate spewed about me in the mind-numb media are inconsequential and pathetic. Those that know me are certain of my goodness and connect with me deeply.

  Ted Nugent

  Lying, Hate, Believe

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Traditionally vice presidential debates don't move the needle one way or the other. They have largely been irrelevant and inconsequential.

  Donald Trump

  Moving, Presidential, Vices

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• England never felt claustrophobic for me at all. I think it would feel more difficult for me if I lived in mainland Europe. America I think is really easy because Los Angeles has film stars everywhere and musicians and Santa Barbara a lot of people have homes there even if they don't live there. You are kind of inconsequential, no one cares.

  Martin Gore

  Home, Thinking, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The illuminated ones can take any form -- a man, a woman, a child, an elder, or even a dog. It is not inconsequential that the English language allows for the dyslexia of the spelling of the word dog: God spelled backward.

  Jean Houston

  Dog, Children, Men

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• The weight of a fabric is inconsequential, since seasonal dressing is all about layering.

  George Kotsiopoulos

  Fabric, Weight, Dressings

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• There's nothing small or inconsequential about our stories. There is, in fact, nothing bigger. And when we tell the truth about our lives - the broken parts, the secret parts, the beautiful parts - then the gospel comes to life, an actual story about redemption, instead of abstraction and theory and things you learn in Sunday School.

  Shauna Niequist

  Beautiful, School, Sunday

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• We have states that are throwing away the DNA of rapists. How can a woman be so inconsequential, that we as a nation aren't standing up and doing something about this intimate, violent act?

  Patricia Arquette

  Violent Acts, Dna, Intimate

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• One doesn't like instabilities in markets; they may be damaging, but probably not fatal, as the October '87 crash showed. It turned out to be essentially inconsequential. So if that's true, I'm not very worried about the welfare of those who are investing any more than I am about the welfare of those who go into casinos.

  Kenneth Arrow

  October, Investing, May

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• Some decisions are obviously much more inconsequential than others. For example, let's say you choose the blue shirt over the red one; not much is likely to change. Red meat over white meat once a week won't likely make a huge difference in your health. But if you believe that grilled chicken is healthier than a cheeseburger, your lunch choice might cause you to pause; especially if you know that the cheeseburger also comes with fries and a large chocolate shake.

  Craig Groeschel

  Believe, Lunch, White

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?

  Mike Myers

  Evil Characters, Idiot

  "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery". www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• He knew very well that love could be like the most beautiful singing, that it could make death inconsequential, that it existed in forms so pure and strong that it was capable of reordering the universe. He knew this, and that he lacked it, and yet as he stood in the courtyard of the Palazzo Venezia, watching diplomats file quietly out the gate, he was content, for he suspected that to command the profoundest love might in the end be far less beautiful a thing than to suffer its absence.

  Mark Helprin

  Beautiful, Strong, Singing

  Mark Helprin (2005). “A Soldier of the Great War”, p.155, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise inconsequential people.

  Ray Stedman

  Love, God, Christian

  Ray C. Stedman (2011). “Authentic Christianity: The Classic Bestseller on Living the Life of Faith with Integrity”, p.106, Discovery House

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• This world is filled with many vulgar and dishonorable things that will claw and tear at your Christian purity if you allow them to. Don't let them! Seek instead the things of God. He will purify you and free you from your slavery to profane and inconsequential things.

  Patrick Madrid

  Christian, Tears, World

  Patrick Madrid (2012). “A Year with the Bible: Scriptural Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.27, TAN Books

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• Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

  Alan Watts

  Work, Quality, May

  Alan Watts (1989). “The way of Zen”, Vintage

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• I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.

  Billy Corgan

  Mean, Journey, Artist

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• There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence, that something is wrong. You don't know - can't know - that it is the first of a series of "wrongful" events that will culminate in the utter devastation of your life as you have known it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Grief, Forever, Bereavement

  "A Widow’s Story" by Joyce Carol Oates, www.newyorker.com. December 13, 2010.

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• One always imagines that the days that change one’s life must be marked with something extraordinary in nature—storms and lightning, darkness at noon, and so on. In truth they are indistinguishable from any other, which is one reason we feel mocked, as if the world is telling us we are inconsequential.

  Margaret George

  Life, Darkness, Storm

  Margaret George (2011). “Elizabeth I: The Novel”, p.452, Penguin

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