Trite Quotes

58 quotes by 53 authors

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and… — Albert Einstein
This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in… — Warren Rudman
There is perhaps, nothing more likely to disturb the tranquillity of nations, than their being bound to mutual contributions for any common object that does… — Alexander Hamilton
Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs… — Margaret Atwood
The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me. — Albert Einstein
One must console oneself with the thought that time has a sieve through which most of these important things run into the ocean of oblivion… — Albert Einstein
I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be… — Sherilyn Fenn
Every adventure requires a first step. Trite but true, even here. — American McGee
Driving stock up from one day to the next is not what we are about. We are about building a good company and performing for… — James Sinegal
We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which… — Jean de la Bruyere
There is nothing more trite than a period room imposed on a contemporary setting. — Van Day Truex
This sounds very simple and maybe even trite, but very few people know that they are loved without condition or limits. — Henri Nouwen
The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you a constantly growing… — Stephen King
What [man landing on the moon] is doing up there is indulging his obsession with the impossible. The impossible infuriates and tantalizes him. Show him… — Russell Baker
But there's a fourth interpretation: Obama can't leave his comfort zone. No president since Woodrow Wilson has been as enamored of abstract ideas or more… — Jonah Goldberg
It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens. — Nigella Lawson
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after. — Wendell Phillips
It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine. — Portia de Rossi
It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to… — Norman Spinrad
The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't… — Patrick Marber

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