#insignificant

Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#important #insignificant #matter #productivity #really

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

#giant #giant step #gradually #insignificant #life

Netfali's breath caught in his throat at the sight of the infinite colors and the gentle curve of the faraway horizon. He had never imagined the height of the white spray breaking against the rocks, the dark sand, or the air that whispered of fish and salt. He stood, captivated, feeling small and insignificant, and at the same time as if he belonged to something much grander. ↗

— Peter Sís

#imagination

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. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#condemn #define #different #insignificant #our

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. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#because #book #critic #deals #feelings

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger. ↗

— Thucydides

#being #causes #explosion #first #generally

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#esteem #hope #insignificant #lowering #most

Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#community #history #impossible #insignificant #nothing

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. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#ask #been #capacity #either #exhausts

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. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#cause #down #foolish #front #gave