Quotes About Trivial

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

It was a trivial entertainment piece, capable of neither harm nor good.

He was of no more consequence than an empty cigarette packet.

Trivial, yes. But I was aiming for the mirrored room. There was nothing more essential in the world; nothing that failed, when placed beside it, to disappear completely.

It was faster that way, the violation seemed trivial, and officers in the control center had no way of knowing what the enlisted men were doing in the silo. The

When you reach the point at which even the most trivial acts are punishable by the death of the species, then obviously, obviously, you're at a critical juncture, a different kind of point of no return.

Lost in Trivia

Most of the talk of human beings was silly talk, talk that was of less weight than a man's breath.

philately is far and away the area of my life where I spend the most time and effort making genuinely inconsequential decisions.

I'm constantly around people that talk a lot but say nothing. A sad case.

Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference.

So trivial are the traces of different natures that remain [in people]…that nothing hinders our living a life worthy of gods.

Whosoever insists on winning must play at trivial games; no interesting victory is ever assured.

most of the time it's the small things that count

Nothing is so small or trivial as to escape the attention of God's sovereign control; nothing is so great as to be beyond His power to control it.

One study of Nazi records found that of a sample of 213 denunciations, 37 percent arose not from heartfelt political belief but from private conflicts, with the trigger often breathtakingly trivial. In October 1933, for example, the clerk at a grocery store turned in a cranky customer who had stubbornly insisted on receiving three pfennigs in change. The clerk accused her of failure to pay taxes. Germans

Necessity with the illusion of meaning would be the highest achievement for man; but when it becomes trivial there is no sense to one's life.

A story is a largely false account of largely trivial events, fed to us by historians who are largely idiots.

A story is a largely false account, of largely trivial events, fed to us by historians who are largely idiots,'" smiled the Witcher.

we must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they may be; the nature of our life alone has determined their forms.

How do you irradiate the humbly trivial - the sneezes and waiting in bus-queues - with the lofty, and at the same time cherish above all in the lofty those things that nourish you here, today, in all your ordinariness? I cannot understand, in other words, what sort of God would bother to count every hair on my head.

Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.

Buscamos lo trágico en lo cómico, lo político en lo personal, lo personal que guía lo político, lo extraordinario detrás de lo usual, lo trivial en lo exaltado.

Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.