Quotes About Trivial

Ma ora si rendeva conto che quello, come tradimento, era così piccolo che faceva ridere. Così piccolo che faceva piangere.

A quien leyere Si las páginas de este libro consienten algún verso feliz, perdóneme el lector la descortesía de haberlo usurpado yo, previamente. Nuestras nadas poco difieren; es trivial y fortuita la circunstancia de que tú seas el lector de estos ejercicios, y yo su redactor.

It took the Press only a few days to transform some ridiculously trivial matter into an issue of national importance, while vital problems were completely ignored or filched and hidden away from public attention.

Forget him, he's just another red-shirted extra making a cameo appearance in our lives.

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.

The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.

Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.

It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.

The demands that the hard work of love make on our development are larger than life, and as beginners we are not a match for them. But if we can hold out and take this love upon us as a burden and an apprenticeship, instead of losing ourselves in all the trivial and frivolous games behind which people have hidden from the utter seriousness of their existence, then perhaps a small advance and some relief will be sensible to those who come long after us. That would mean a great deal.

And between us now there is this continual underground struggle over something trivial and nebulous that won't abate and has lasted nearly as long as the two of us have known each other. I love you.

La mente líquida pone todo el control afuera, se deja llevar por la marejada y, por eso, es mediocre y trivial.

La mente líquida pone todo el control afuera, se deja llevar por la marejada y, por eso, es mediocre y trivial. Es mejor mimetizarse, diluirse en el conjunto indiferenciado de la población, pasar desapercibido y eludir cualquier responsabilidad. La motivación se convierte en algo tan instantáneo y volátil, que la sola idea de profundizar produce molestia, pero no por miedo a que las ideas tambaleen como haría el dogmático, sino por simple y llana pereza.

Mostly harmless

Earth: mostly harmless

the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.

This fact may safely be made the subject of suspense since it is of no significance whatsoever.

Don't make much ado about nothing.

Never to despise the trivial – the undignified.

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.

The reason all of this is so horrible," McVries said, "is because it's just trivial.

He was magnificent and trivial.

A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and easily understood. Its analysis shows that it is, in reality, a very queer thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. 

Men are led by trifles.

Man often overstates the trivial things and understates the vital ones!