When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales. — Ethel Merman 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
Happy Song' is a sarcastic open letter to the world about how we use superficial and trivial things to ignore the real… — Oliver Sykes Copy Share Image
What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things,... — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great… — Joe Hyams Copy Share Image
“It is the small trivial things in life that makes a human happy, like opening a pickle jar.” — KanyaACoffman Copy Share Image
“I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things.” — Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Computer scientists would call this a “ping attack” or a “denial of service” attack: give a system an overwhelming number of trivial… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
People are not impressed by watching interviewees cry. People recognize chat shows with personalities as the trivial things that they are. They're… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
“I remember what seemed to me a bright remark he made after a month's stay in England about the difference between Polish… — Stanislaw M. Ulam Copy Share Image
I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Looking back on it, I realize that it might not have been the completely right thing to do. Unfortunately, the rental market… — Darren McKeeman Copy Share Image
In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find… — Gretchen Rubin 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
I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced –… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I tell children that they are far too dependent on their gizmos, they do not deny it. But they really don't… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“8. You hate the political buisness of nationality. You hate everything, in politics and art and everything else, that is not genuine… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Had I known, that last hour sitting there, talking and laughing about trivial things, that there was a clot forming like a… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
That wind. I see it's blowing now. Furtive but commanding, it has dictated every move we've ever made. My mother felt it,… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There is no doctrine more fundamental to our work than the Atonement of Jesus Christ. At every appropriate opportunity, testify of the… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial… — Galt Niederhoffer Copy Share Image
“Mr. Severin smiled, tiny constellations of reflected chandelier lights glinting in his eyes. "Since I've told you about my tastes... what are… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it strange how we always seem to remember the trivial things from our daily lives... yet we so often forget the… — Fábio Moon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Why is it that I can remember so easily the lyrics to the opening theme song of 'Gilligan's Island?' Why do I… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
“Amazing, is it not, that in the face of death we hunger for distraction, and are wont to focus on other things,… — C.S. Friedman Copy Share Image
The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“and supply-chain experts, and get more space. Corey also knew that little things can mean a lot, and as a boss, you… — Robert I. Sutton Copy Share Image
“The adversary would keep us busily engaged in a multitude of trivial things in an effort to keep us distracted from the… — Ardeth G. Kapp Copy Share Image
I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Notes on 'Camp' talks a lot about homosexuality and androgyny and performance and a false seriousness, nit-picking the trivial things and making… — Violet Chachki Copy Share Image
If the Congress is going to spend its whole time hauling up regulators and bureaucrats and looking like they're focusing on tiny,… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
“He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like having something important to do that we do not want to do to get us to deal with… — Luigina Sgarro Copy Share Image
As often as not our whole self...engages itself in the most trivial of things, the shape of a particular hill, a road… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
