quotes about Insignificance

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”

Source : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1951). “The Novels of Ivan Turgenev: Virgin soil”

“Life is a gamble, we scramble for money, I might crack a smile, but ain't a damn thing funny.”

“I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know.”

“Success is predictable.”

“Out of silence comes the greatest creativity. Not when we are rushing and panicking.”

“LESBIANS are women who prefer their own ways to male ways.LESBIANS prefer the convoluting halls of sensuality to direct goal-pursuing mores. LESBIANS have made a small world deep within and separated from the world.What has usually been called the world is the male world.”

“To promote knowledge is thus an inescapable duty imposed on every one of the friends of God.”

“Your taste in music is excellent. It exactly coinsides with my own!”

Source : "Fictional character: King Henry VIII". "A Man for All Seasons", www.imdb.com. 1966.

“Good God, you don’t give up.” “Nope.” I laughed, couldn’t help it, and his smile spread in response to the sound. “I’m sure there are plenty of girls who want to go out on a date with you.” “There are.” “Wow. Modest aren’t you?” “Why should I be?” he shot back. “And I want to go out on a date with you. Not them.”

“A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.”