Top 1200 Trivial Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Taxes are not trivial - they're a huge portion of this overall economy. And that's why I focused on them.

If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.

All the research shows that the presence of that phone will do two things to the conversation. It will make the conversation go to trivial matters, and it will decrease the amount of empathy that the two people in the conversation feel toward each other. That phone is a signal that either of us can put our attention elsewhere.

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

I've always struggled with Hollywood feeling trivial. Red carpets aren't worth it.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences.

A failed experiment can be more important than a trivial design

O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.

But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun.

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it's the only thing that matters.

Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse.

To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.

Light, trivial comedy does not appeal - it is not something I go to see.

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.

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

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

If you know your destination, choosing a route - while not trivial - is manageable.

Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.

Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons.

Pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many.

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.

Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands.

Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.

The trivial round, the common task,Would furnish all we ought to ask.

It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.

Even the smallest and most trivial thing can bring you happiness when you do it for another.

For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well

Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.

I liked finding dirt on people. It made all my trespasses seem trivial.

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.

Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.

Sports are trivial compared to matters of war and peace, but some parallels apply.

This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error,however, is not new.

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.

There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.

Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.

I didn't want to do some trivial, lame, trite, sweetie-pie, 'How thin can I be?' role.

Women are foils to men in South Korea. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance. Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing this.

Avoid trivial pursuits. You are a child of God, destined for glory, and called to do great things in His Name. Do not waste your life on hobbies, sports, and other recreational pursuits. Do not throw away the precious moments of your life on entertainment, movies, and video games. Though some of these things can properly have a 'small place' in the Christian's life, we must be careful not to give undue attention to temporal and fruitless activities. Do not waste your life. Employ the time of your youth in developing the character and skills necessary to be a useful servant of God.

Imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems profound

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

We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

Magicians have taken something intrinsically profound and made it look trivial.

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

Even trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego.

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

As light fades and the shadows deepen, all petty and exacting details vanish, everything trivial disappears, and I see things as they are in great strong masses: the buttons are lost, but the sitter remains; the sitter is lost, but the shadow remains; the shadow is lost, but the picture remains. And that, night cannot efface from the painter's imagination.

The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason.

Housing being a top-order issue for cities is something that's not trivial.

When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.