Top 1200 Trivial Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.

The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?

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.

By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them.

A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.

The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.

Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.

God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.

Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.

To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.

Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.

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

Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.

The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.

When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it.

You'll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I'm uninterested in it; I find it trivial and banal and boring.

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

Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

A noble person confers no such gift as his whole confidence: none so exalts the giver and the receiver; it produces the truest gratitude. Perhaps it is only essential to friendship that some vital trust should have been reposed by the one in the other. I feel addressed and probed even to the remotest parts of my being when one nobly shows, even in trivial things, an implicit faith in me.... A threat or a curse may be forgotten, but this mild trust translates me.

I don't think too seriously about anything, neither does my husband and my son. When we are home, we are constantly laughing over some trivial matters.

I didn't grow up reading magazines; I was very much in an environment where that would have been deemed trivial, frivolous.

Young children are being arrested and subjected to court appearances for behaviors that can only be termed as trivial.

Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.

An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.

The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer.

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.

So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled?

Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love."

Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have, Not knowing them until we know their grave.

I've struggled with that over the years: Is fashion relevant? Is it frivolous? Is it trivial? Because I give so much of my essence to it, as do everybody I work with.

A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the spirit of invention.

I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.

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.

It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what was really in one's mind.

It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.

Focus on the roses: 'A person who gathers honey will not escape being stung by bees. A person who gathers roses will not escape being scratched by thorns.' The positive things in life also have negative aspects. Keep your focus on the beautiful roses of the world, and the thorns will seem trivial and inconsequential.

Creative avoidance is the type of procrastination that affects home business entrepreneurs the most. It is unconsciously filling our day with trivial, unimportant work.

Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth

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

Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.

Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.

The hunting of monsters is not for the faint of heart. Nor is it for those who feel bound by such trivial doctrines as law or national borders.

She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.

To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

Any experience, however, trivial in its first appearance, is capable of assuming an indefinite richness of significance by extending its range of perceived connections.

... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.

There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly.

I think that we need to be careful, as reporters and as journalists, not to take the bait and not to get into an endless discussion about issues that are trivial.

Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?

When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.

There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love", and look on things as if man were the centre of them. Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake. "Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created." We were made not primarily that we may love God (though we were made for that too) but that God may love us, that we may become objects in which the divine love may rest "well pleased".

Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.

Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.