Trivial Quotes · Page 2

“Well, women are used to worrying over trifles.”

— Susan Glaspell

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

— Alan Bennett

A lot of people pass off adolescent depression as something trivial.

— Lacey Sturm

In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.

— Richard Armour

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

— Julius Caesar

Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go[3]

— Confucius

“But the technology is only trivial retrospectively—not prospectively.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

— Aldo Leopold

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

— Barton Gellman

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

— Albert Einstein

For the man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of sense trivial and to count them nothing considerd…

— Charles Ives

If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy.

— Lee Smolin

“The story of a man's soul, however trivial, can be more interesting and instructive than the story of a whole nation”

— Mikhail Lermontov

I want to do just minor, trivial stuff, things that I can do without worrying about the eyes of others.

— Hyun Bin

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

— Lou Holtz

The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Take all those things that would propose to be important, and weigh them upon the scale of your soul. Asking how much…

— L.M. Browning

The director of 'Independence Day,' 'Godzilla' and 'The Patriot' has certain attributes, all of which are given full vent in 'The Day…

— Stephen Hunter

What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in…

— Atul Gawande

“In vain a zealous evangelist with a fely hat and flowing tie threads his way through the crowd, crying without cease: 'God…

— Albert Camus

There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

You know what I'm great at? Trivial Pursuit. What good is that gonna do you in life? It has the word 'trivial'…

— Christian Finnegan

The stunning thing about the world as it is, is that we have a tremendously large problem in it: namely, one-third of…

— Thomas Pogge

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

— Anonymous

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

— Jamy Ian Swiss

When you have cancer, you can define the trivial from the important very quickly.

— Paul Henderson

Many times trivial things become are more important than important things.

— Mak_786

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

— John Fowles

For some reason, religious jokes seem as trivial as jokes about food or driving.

— Emo Philips

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

— Samuel Smiles

“It's funny, you know. The times that seem so trivial end up meaning so much.”

— Jeffrey Blount

“It’s funny how the final straw is invariably a trivial incident.”

— Hyeonseo Lee

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

— Tom Steyer

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

— John Roberts

Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness.

— Richard Dawkins

“Our movements through time and space seem somehow trivial compared to a heap of boiled meat in broth, the smell of saffron,…

— Anthony Bourdain

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

— Megan McCafferty

You're a trivial part in a trivia game. Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign? Like Ross Perot? He lost it though...…

— Aceyalone

I never represented glam. That's the thing, you'll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I'm uninterested in…

— Jamie Lee Curtis