On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.
Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase?
We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
We must reduce the emissions 100 percent. In Venezuela, the emissions are currently insignificant compared to the emissions of the developed countries.
It takes the same effort to think small than to think big. But to think big frees you from the insignificant details.
Most people get overwhelmed by the insignificant decisions of their lives. I'm urging people to minimize the time spent on these when they're not critical to their most important goals.
Patton: Look at that, gentlemen. Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance.
Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.
Men and women who sell their birthright for a mess of pottage will tell you that their demise began with something small, with some seemingly insignificant breach of integrity that escalated. The little things do matter. It is not possible to profess...
Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. I buy art that I like. I buy it to show it off in exhibitions. Then, if I feel like it, I sell it and buy more art.
I felt significantly insignificant, as if my presence in the world, albeit small, was still necessary.
This day, you are free, because you have chosen to be free – and because of your choice, your days of insignificance are over.
Love comes in seemingly insignificant moments and if you’re not paying attention, you might miss them.
Words had become overnight just little coins, insignificant and unfreighted, to be exchanged for ribbons, buttons, for an apple or an egg.
Everybody is living for a purpose, you might turn out to be significant or insignificant depending on the kind of message you are feeding the world with.
You will always feel insignificant if you never do anything to change the world or another person's life, other than your own.
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.
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.
I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.
Because of the active principle and spirit or universal soul, nothing is so incomplete, defective or imperfect, or, according to common opinion, so completely insignificant that it could not become the source of great events.
I know that the work is good and they're excited over at ABC and Disney and it's getting some really good feedback. It's not just a little, insignificant kind of role. It's meaty, which is good.
