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There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

Alexander Woollcott

It is characteristic of the military mentality that nonhuman factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc) are held essential, while the human being, his desires, and thoughts - in short, the psychological factors - are considered as unimportant and secondary...The individual is degraded...to 'human materiel'.

Albert Einstein

Everything is relative in Washington. And Canada and softwood lumber are relatively unimportant -- the point that Ms. Rice was trying to make yesterday in Ottawa.

Jeffrey Simpson

Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.

C. Northcote Parkinson

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

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

Charlie Chaplin

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

History, n. An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

Ambrose Bierce

Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people.

Lillian Eichler Watson

Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . .The other eight are unimportant.

Henry Miller

Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.

Judith S. Marin

People keep dismissing tonight as unimportant; I don't and I know Steve doesn't. We have got to brush ourselves down and come out battling against United. We see it as important to the club to win these kind of games because they raise the spirit and right now we've got to say that one of our problems is confidence.

David Gold

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

David Harold Fink

'The sane person prides himself on his ability to be unaffected by important facts, and interested in unimportant ones. He refers to this as having a sense of perspective, or keeping things 'in proportion'.'

Celia Green

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

Money is the most unimportant thing in the world if you have enough to live.

Kemmons Wilson

What's not understandable is how important or unimportant the various components are.

Claudia Reid

HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. Of Roman history, great Niebuhr's shown 'Tis nine-tenths lying. Faith, I wish 'twere known, Ere we accept great Niebuhr as a guide, Wherein he blundered and how much he lied. Salder Bupp.

Ambrose Bierce

The thrill I had looked forward to for so long just wasn't there. In the middle of war, amidst so much suffering and death Hollywood seemed far off and unimportant.

William Wyler

Pop culture knowledge is kind of like the new social currency for America. If you ask most people who the mayor of San Francisco is, they won't know. But if you ask them what the 'San Francisco treat' is, 99 percent of them will know it. We are a culture that loves things that are unimportant.

Rob Daviau

I don't really understand the concept of having a career, or what agents mean when they say they're building one for you. I just do things I think will be interesting and that have integrity. I hate those tacky, pointless, big, fluffy, unimportant movies.

Gwyneth Paltrow

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

Kitty O'neill Collins

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