#unimportant

Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#astronomy #cast #correction #doubt #easily

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest. ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

#born #done #how #i #i was born

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#because #been #intellectual #mentioned #paradise

I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones. ↗

— Patti Page

#always #been #could #done #elvis

No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things. ↗

— Channing Pollock

#better #better things #doing #how #lead

First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#framework #legislative #moses #mouth #narrative

It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil. ↗

— Gerard De Nerval

#been #between #dissolve #distinction #eternal

When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#covering #happen #hard #i #important

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. ↗

— John Ruskin

#cannot #commonplace #concealment #however #may

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place. ↗

— May Sarton

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