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
“To my surprise, it was a place where my thoughts were the most lucid. I wasn’t bogged down in random trivial details… — M.B. Wilmot Copy Share Image
“The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it comes to politics,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill… — Anne 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
If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man,… — Joseph McCabe 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
... 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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“If we want to understand its imprint, we must put silence in context. This allows us to retreat, reflect, rejuvenate, and gain… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
“Don’t live your life not to know what to do with your time. If you don’t have any results to show for… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage… — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
Some champions of ever-greater governmental power and spending invent the theory that the taxpayers, left to themselves, spend the money they have… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
