when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater… — Galen Beckett Copy Share Image
But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Even the smallest and most trivial thing can bring you happiness when you do it for another. — Sun Myung Moon 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
Trivial things do matter for example, more people are killed each year by the bite of mosquitoes than are stepped upon by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales. — Ethel Merman Copy Share Image
Do not become so absorbed with trivial things that you miss learning the doctrine and teachings of the Lord. — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Many of us spend more time on the C's of life than on the A's of life. Don't allow trivial things to… — Douglas Merrill Copy Share Image
Most of our life is unimportant, filled with trivial things from morning till night. But when it is transformed by love it… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The span of three or four minutes is pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. People lose hundreds of minutes everyday, squandering… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment… — Walter Pater 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
“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
“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
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
We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous… Trivial things take up all your time and dull your… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
A noble person confers no such gift as his whole confidence: none so exalts the giver and the receiver; it produces the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Okay,” Mason said, feeling a surge of hope. The protocol now was to force the hostage- taker to make decisions about trivial… — Mar Preston 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
“What a pity to see a mind as great as Napoleon's devoted to trivial things such as empires, historic events, the thundering… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
“Dorian Gray listened, open-eyed and wondering. The spray of lilac fell from his hand upon the gravel. A furry bee came and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We live in a fallen world. We give and receive scars that only God can heal through Jesus Christ. Not another human… — Geraldine Vermaak Copy Share Image
I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets. The war took care of that for me. You know,… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“Tell me about it. Despite all the changes in the twenty-first century, it seems that the rich are still rich and the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“I have always considered my ability to remain ignorant of trivial things to be among my greatest strengths.” — Nathaniel Dean James 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
It's getting too late in my life to care about the small things. It's getting too late to not be brave, to… — Helen Hunt Copy Share Image
It's the mix of the trivial and the great events that make up history. It's the low things about high people that… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
Why is it that we don't build human settlements that will feed themselves, and fuel themselves, and catch their own water, when… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
“The advantage of a permanent emergency for the executive is that even trivial things can routinely be accomplished by the crisis presidency.… — Garry wills Copy Share Image
“It's amazing how, over the course of one's life, you collect so much music you don't like, so many movies you don't… — Ellie Rose McKee Copy Share Image
I may not be there yet, but I will get there. No matter what it takes, I will get there. I refuse… — Anonymous 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 biggest fear you face, as an actor, is whether people are going to like you. When you learn to let go… — Seth Gabel 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
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
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
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
