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
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
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
Souls who can recognize God in the most trivial, the most grievous and the most mortifying things that happen to them in… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade 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
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
Content may by trivial. But I do not think that any person may pronounce either upon the weight or upon the triviality… — Ben Shahn 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
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
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
“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
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
“In the nearest future, those who understood the value of time will rule over those who trivialized time.” — Sunday Adelaja 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
What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality? — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things.” — Thoreau Copy Share Image
The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
