#unimportant

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things. ↗

— Murray Kempton

#been #confess #evil #far #good

The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people. ↗

— Louise Brown

#carried #crafted #found #important people #made

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#cat #considers #dealt #never #protocol

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

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

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#film #grand #important time #life #most

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

#detail #doubtful #far #great #lay

I used to let a lot of unimportant things bother me. I don't anymore. Right now, things are going great in my life. It used to be when that happened, I would be waiting for something to go wrong. Now I don't expect that - if something negative does happen, I'll deal with it, learn from it and realize it is the way it is supposed to be. ↗

— Doug Davidson

#bother #deal #does #expect #go

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

#being #bore #everyone #oneself #someone

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#failure #fool #make #takes #unimportant