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Quotes About Trivial

The difference between the two classes is often a trivial concern; but in a state, and when affecting really important matters, becomes of all disorders the most hateful.
~ Plato
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
~ Irvin S. Cobb
Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.
~ Alexandra Fuller
Meaninglessness woos us into spending our one shot at life on insignificant and trivial things. If we are not vigilant, we drift from God's glorious ambition for our lives, losing sight of anything remotely grand, trading God-instilled passion for an easier and more often traveled road. And if our hearts aren't awakened by majesty, our lives soon shrink into little bits of nothingness.
~ Louie Giglio
It is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Imprisoned in a cage of sound Even the trivial seems profound
~ John Betjeman
Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate and vaguely immoral.
~ Robin Boyd
It's a blip, not a catastrophe.
~ Donald Trump
Real philosophy is dense, impenetrable, so esoteric as to be unknown and so obscure as to be irrelevant... Maybe what I do is trivial, the philosophical equivalent of a Big Mac and fries
~ Unknown
The motivations for human action were depressingly trivial.
~ Unknown
Nothing is trivial to God which is of consequence to us. He is not so absorbed with the affairs of state that he can give no time or thought to the minor concerns of his children's life.
~ Lyman Abbott
To me, coming from applied mathematics, a theorem was a statement about an everlasting mathematical truth—not the dressing up of a trivial observation in a lot of formalism.
~ Unknown
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
~ John Fowles
8. You hate the political buisness of nationality. You hate everything, in politics and art and everything else, that is not genuine and deep and necessary. You don't have time for silly trivial things. You live seriously. You don't go to silly films, even if you want to; you don't read cheap newspapers; you don't listen to trash on the wireless and the telly; you don't waste time talking about nothing. You use your life.
~ John Fowles
It was an unforgettable painting; it set a dense golden halo of light round the most trivial of moments, so that the moment, and all such moments, could never be completely trivial again.
~ John Fowles
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical, and I was never accomplished at that. 'I
~ John Fowles
Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.
~ Olaf Stapledon
Regardless of my age, such a trivial thing isn't important, it was upon that decision which my life hung.
~ Ross Turner, Jenson
I crave the gift of recreational shallowness. The trick of knowing when to be cleverly trivial, lightweight; when to avoid emotional excess.
~ Margo Jefferson
Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?
~ Jane Austen
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~ Mark Frost
Factories can be a major undertaking in a strongly typed language such as C++ but are almost trivial to implement in Python.
~ Unknown
A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.
~ Thomas Carlyle
no better than Bellyfluff, Sillystuff, or Starchyruff;
~ Unknown