"Unimportance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... who said to her friend, "My dear, it is impossible to exaggerate the unimportance of things," had learned what it meant to drop everything that interferes, and must have been truly on her way to the concentration which should be the very central power of all life,—obedience to the ...
— The Freedom of Life • Annie Payson Call
... As though the unimportance of Rome were not thus sufficiently established, Constantine abandoned the decaying capital altogether, and built himself a new city, Constantinople, at the junction of Europe and Asia. This became the centre of the changing world. Built upon the ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 • Various
... of anything to say. It was as though by that one act he had cut a bridge behind him and on the other side lay all the platitudes, the small give and take of their hours together. What to her was a regrettable incident was to him a great dramatic climax. Boylike, he refused to recognize its unimportance to her. He ...
— The Breaking Point • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... a woman, to whom external appearance is scarcely in any circumstance a matter of unimportance, and like a beauty who has confidence in ...
— What Great Men Have Said About Women - Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 77 • Various
... of naming, is, equally in both cases, the act of man: only in the one case, the ends of language and of classification would be subverted if no notice were taken of the difference, while in the other case, the necessity of taking notice of it depends on the importance or unimportance of the particular qualities in which ...
— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill
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