Quotes About Trivial

You're a mean old man, Your Grace." "And that is the way it should be." Roial informed. "Mean young men are trivial, and kindly old men boring. Here, let me get us something to drink.

Men are lead by trifles.

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

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?

Positive emotions are not trivial luxuries, but instead might be critical necessities for optimal functioning.

One thing, however, we may say with tolerable confidence: whatever may be the germ of a play--whether it be an anecdote, a situation, or what not--the play will be of small account as a work of art unless character, at a very early point, enters into and conditions its development. The story which is independent of character--which can be carried through by a given number of ready-made puppets--is essentially a trivial thing.

Occumenius, is as much as if the apostle had said,[45] 'We wrestle not for small and trivial things, but for heavenly,' yea, for heaven itself, and our adoption, as he goes on.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits

It's not that your most important work is meaningless; it's that your most trivial movements are also significant.

Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes.

The matters we or the world might consider trivial, He cares about and wants to remedy. He longs to relieve our worries and has promised to supply our most fundamental needs.

It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and naturally as a door on its hinges.

It's surprising how often history is decided by something as trival as bad shellfish.

A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.

There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.

Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time.

All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.

For a little reward, people make a long journey; for eternal life many will scarcely lift a foot off the ground. They seek poor rewards of money in their shameful strife. For a trivial promise, people will work day and night.

The trust of a city street is formed over time from many, many little public sidewalk contacts... Most of it is ostensibly trivial but the sum is not trivial at all.

El tono es un golpe de silencio que enmudece, en cada voz, la voz de los Otros que habla en los lugares comunes; un intervalo entre los estereotipos que deja oír lo que queda del enmudecimiento de la voz propia, un resto del anonadamiento (necesario, constitutivo) de la voz personal en la in-diferencia de lo trivial.

useless characters, pointless details, frequent digressions regarding his own unremarkable, woeful self...