Insignificantly Small Quotes & Sayings

Although others may feel sorry for you, never feel sorry for yourself: it has a deadly effect on spiritual well-being. Recognize all problems, no matter how difficult, as opportunities for spiritual growth, and make the most of these opportunities. — Peace Pilgrim

The Earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides, is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars. — Johannes Kepler

The Western rhetoric of appeasement creates a self-reinforcing loop of mental and moral corruption. Speaking the truth now would mean confessing to many months of lies — Garry Kasparov

What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos.
Have a nice day. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Change is automatic, Progress is Not! — Tony Robbins

I'm constantly running across comments from developers who don't seem to understand that the code already tells us how it works; we need the comments to tell us why it works. Code comments — Jeff Atwood

There's this exhausting energy from you getting your lines out and your words right, especially if it's a complicated scene. And as soon as the camera is off you and goes on the other person, you're talking garbled garbage and you feel so sorry for them because you've lost the will to live, after 18 hours of saying those lines. That's terribly unfair. So, I do love the quick-paced nature of it. — Dominic Cooper

If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me. — Sarah Dessen

...YES, HELLO...I'VE FOUND A HOLE...IN MY APARTMENT...YES, NO...IT KEEPS MOVING...YES...COULD YOU COME AND HAVE A LOOK...NO...OK...TAKE IT WITH ME...TO YOU? HOW...HELLO? — Oyvind Torseter

I choose what I believe, and say nothing. For I am not as simple as I may seem. — Catherine Of Aragon

With iTunes and Spotify and Pandora and this and that, you don't need to buy CDs any more. — Sergio Garcia

A crucible's craving is her mechanic's mandate. — Josephine Angelini

I am troubled by the lack of common sense regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Our greatest greenhouse gas is water. Atmospheric spectroscopy reveals why water has a 95 percent and CO2 a 3.6 percent contribution to the 'greenhouse effect.' Carbon dioxide emissions worldwide each year total 3.2 billion tons. That equals about 0.0168 percent of the atmosphere's CO2 concentration of about 19 trillion tons. This results in a 0.00064 percent increase in the absorption of the sun's radiation. This is an insignificantly small number. — Michael Myers

We may seem insignificantly small, but we exist. So I remain optimistic. — James Rosenquist

Finding love is a two-part process. The first part is to find the right person. The second part is to be the right person. — Mavis Leno

Beyond all lessons, beyond the model she provided, my mother gave me a parent's ultimate gift; she made me feel lovable and good. She paid attention; she listened; she remembered what I said. She did not think me perfect, but she accepted me, without qualification. — Fredelle Bruser Maynard