My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
Time grabs you by the scruff of your neck and drags you forward. You get over it, of course. Everyone was right about that. One mathematically insignificant day, you stop hoping for happiness and become actually happy.
Stop attaching so much weight to being right. In the grand scheme of things, being right is insignificant compared with being happy.
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right.
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
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.
God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small.
At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction.
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.
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything.
Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.
Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.
It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.
Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind. In this sense the most insignificant writer can serve peace, where the most powerful tribunals can do nothing.
Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for everyone, and need only be turned up like a page in an account-book or the record of a will; our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people.
It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.
Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.
Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.
A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant.
The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.
It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.
One should perform even an insignificant task with respect.
The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.
Individual glory is insignificant when compared to achieving victory as a team.
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