“I know so much pressure is on all of us to waste time and to just trivialize it. There is so much… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“In the nearest future, those who understood the value of time will rule over those who trivialized time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
As no darkness can be seen by anyone surrounded by light, so no trivialities can capture the attention of anyone who has… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
The contented have time to worry about trivialities; often to the extent that they never achieve anything worthwhile. — Jules Eckert Goodman Copy Share Image
We believe that arithmetic as it has been taught in grade schools until quite recently has such a meagre intellectual content that… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I pity the babies whose mothers are busy texting trivialities instead of playing with their children; I pity the children who are… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
“When love is roaming in our mind, looping in the deepest fringes of our heart, undreamt spaciousness emerges, repealing the constraints of… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If my sons are to become the kind of men our daughters would be pleased to live among, attention to domestic details… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time, should… — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
Woody Allen once said that 'I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.'… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Running keeps me at a physical peak and sharpens my senses. It makes me touch and see and hear as if for… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
This vast life - the real, interior one in which we remain linked to the dead (because the dream inside us ignores… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
In a play, certainly, the subject is of more importance than in any other work of art. Infelicity, triviality, vagueness of subject,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
... those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded... Sad,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Kaplan can't understand trivialities. The triviality here is that nobody except the ultra right-wing jingoists like Kaplan are comparing atrocities by various… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“Science is an organized pursuit of triviality. Art is a casual pursuit of significance. Let's keep it in perspective.” — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone. — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
We live in a society of triviality, and my music and what I'm about kind of starts to break that mold and… — Andy Mineo Copy Share Image
All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial. — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
I think every discovery of the world plunges us into jubilation, a radical amazement that tears apart the veil of triviality. — Judy Cannato Copy Share Image
“You should treat the trivial things in life seriously and the serious things in life with a sincere and studied triviality” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
I thought about societies where exceptional fortunes are built up in industries with very little connection to out sincere and significant needs,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“The perplexity of life arises from their being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
