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We have already seen evidence that, notwithstanding the addition of substantial resources, we are experiencing great stress in recruiting and not inconsequential retention problems. -- John M. McHugh
There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I didn't do anything. I just didn't have much patience for roles that were silly, or light, or inconsequential. -- Claire Danes
It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time. -- Boris Johnson
I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture. -- Billy Corgan
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I do get pleasure from very inconsequential things, like shopping for clothes. -- Graham Norton
The weight of a fabric is inconsequential, since seasonal dressing is all about layering. -- George Kotsiopoulos
I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can. -- Rick Perry
It is the small things in life which count; it is the inconsequential leak which empties the biggest reservoir. -- Charles Comiskey
The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Although there are real hazards in saying yes to life, they are inconsequential when compared to the regrets that come with saying "no". -- Eda LeShan
God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise inconsequential people. -- Ray Stedman
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys. -- Eric Hoffer
There is no such thing as a simple act of compassion or an inconsequential act of service. Everything we do for another person has infinite consequences. -- Caroline Myss
A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? -- Norm MacDonald
Workaholics don't actually accomplish more than nonworkaholics. They may claim to be perfectionists, but that just mean they're wasting time fixating on inconsequential details instead of moving on to the next task. -- David Heinemeier Hansson
Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential. -- William Thomas
For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it for the piddly, inconsequential goings on that it really is... -- Robin Green
I think the public can t accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy. They don t want to believe the world is that chaotic. It is. -- Robert Dallek
Most importantly, postmodernism comes down on the side of photography and power, not photography as power. As a consequence, photography continues to be conceived as an inconsequential vehicle or passage for real powers that always originate elsewhere. -- Geoffrey Batchen
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work. -- Alan Watts
Life is so great in its opportunities and possibilities, that you should rise confidently above the inevitable trifles incident to daily contact with the world. Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. . . . Ignore the inconsequential. -- Grenville Kleiser
I can't know entirely what's at stake beforehand; you find out as you go. I love to take a poem, for instance, that starts with something seemingly frivolous or inconsequential and then grows in gravity until by the end it's something very serious. -- James Tate
This world is filled with many vulgar and dishonorable things that will claw and tear at your Christian purity if you allow them to. Don't let them! Seek instead the things of God. He will purify you and free you from your slavery to profane and inconsequential things. -- Patrick Madrid
Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you. -- Sidney Poitier
Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are... You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time. -- Norm MacDonald
I do sort of feel like I'm building my monument with what I do, but it's pretty small and inconsequential compared to real works of genius which are giving vast inspiration to humanity. But I guess I shouldn't even say that. It's ridiculous to say that. You are what you are. My stature suits me. -- Jim Woodring
Though my work may be menial, though my contribution may be small, I can perform it with dignity and offer it with unselfishness. My talents may not be great, but I can use them to bless the lives of others.... The goodness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence, that something is wrong. You don't know - can't know - that it is the first of a series of "wrongful" events that will culminate in the utter devastation of your life as you have known it. -- Joyce Carol Oates
My life is a vast inconsequential epic. -- Jack Kerouac
I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off. -- Edward Gorey
Tits are inconsequential, but someone pass me that kitten -- Lierre Keith
If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential. -- Timothy Keller
She wished she were as inconsequential as the ghosts in her dreams. -- Libba Bray
More often than we care to admit, inconsequential decisions change our lives. -- Donald McCaig
Memories no matter how small or inconsequential are the pages that define us. -- Sarah Winman
Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Of all the sad rituals of this inconsequential life, dating must be the saddest of all." -- Toni Jordan
How can you ennoble the spirit when you are selling something as inconsequential as a face cream? -- Anita Roddick
Let us strive for personal, practical integrity in every endeavor, regardless of how mundane or inconsequential it may seem. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Traditionally vice presidential debates don't move the needle one way or the other. They have largely been irrelevant and inconsequential. -- Donald Trump
And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her. -- Veronica Roth
Your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential, -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions. -- Ann Leckie
It's tiny out there...it's inconsequential. It's ironic that we had come to study the Moon and it was really discovering the Earth. -- William Anders
Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects. -- David Markson
It is very difficult for [people] to accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy. -- Robert Dallek
Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. . . . Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. . . . Ignore the inconsequential! -- Grenville Kleiser
Be sure to remember that nothing in your daily life is so insignificant and so inconsequential that the Lord will not help you by answering your prayer. -- Ole Hallesby
We must remember that one of the most insidious ways of keeping women and minorities powerless is to let them only talk about harmless and inconsequential subjects... -- Mitsuye Yamada
You're different," he said, touching my face. Of course I was. The man I loved had killed for me. A lot of things became inconsequential after a sacrifice like that. -- Sylvia Day
Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete ways of living and inconsequential talk. -- Jacob Burckhardt
The biggest mistakes most parents make (and believe me, I'm guilty of these too) seem very inconsequential. They're little, day-to-day things that, at the moment, don't seem like a big deal. -- Andy Andrews
Coming closer to home, there is so much of jealousy, pride, arrogance, and carping criticism; fathers who rise in anger over small, inconsequential things and make wives weep and children fear. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things. -- Nick Harkaway
Treating 'water' as a name of a single scattered object is not intended to enable us to dispense with general terms and plurality of reference. Scatter is in fact an inconsequential detail. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
We have states that are throwing away the DNA of rapists. How can a woman be so inconsequential, that we as a nation aren't standing up and doing something about this intimate, violent act? -- Patricia Arquette

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