Quotes About Trivial

My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.

Writing. It's a trivial pursuit, hardly worth the effort, inconsequential on any cosmic level. It's just blood and sweat and guts and bone hauled out of our bodies and fed through a typewriter to slosh all over the platen.

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.

Rzeczy drobne wydajÄ… siÄ™ nieistotne, ale to one zapewniajÄ… nam spokój.

I've just learned about his illness; let's hope it's nothing trivial.

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

He utters empty words, he utters sound without mind.

Trifles make the sum of life.

It may all sound very petty to complain about, but I tell you that sort of thing settles down on one like a fine dust." -Warner, Lolly Willowes

The reason we feel alienated is because the society is infantile, trivial, and stupid. So the cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation.

I'm trying to be somebody on whom the experience is lost by supplanting it with its telling. I definitely do that in medical contexts, even in trivial ones.

The mind couldn't think about the End of the World all the time. It needed the occasional break, a romp through the trivial. Because it was through trivia that the mind was anchored in reality […]

at this point in their lives, neither one of them is important enough to kill, kidnap, or interrogate.

Stuck in my own trap of writing about a nonsubject, I think I can defend my own self-respect, and also the integrity of a lost girl, by saying two things. First, the trivial doings of Paris Hilton are of no importance to me, or anyone else, and I should not be forced to contemplate them. Second, she should be left alone to lead such a life as has been left to her. If this seems paradoxical, then very well.

A great deal has been written on the question of how to motivate industrial workers. Presumably such literature arises because so many jobs have been made so trivial that few people can find any meaning at all in them.

Once severed from the future, the past becomes an insignificant parade of trivial events, no longer organic, no longer potent or painful.

Tweedle dee and tweedle dum

trivial,—there are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation,—are useful.

History neglects nearly all these particulars, and cannot do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it. Nevertheless, these details, which are wrongly called trivial,—there are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation,—are useful.

To be playful is not to be trivial or frivolous, or to act as if nothing of consequence will happen. On the contrary, when we are playful… everything that happens is of consequence, for seriousness is a dread of the unpredictable outcome of open possibility. To be serious is to press for a specified conclusion. To be playful is to allow for unlimited possibility.

Let's face it, life is trivial, and my guess is that dying imparts very little wisdom on those in process.

Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear.