Trivial Things Quotes
34 quotes by 32 authors
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Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great and important things.
— Joe Hyams
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It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is…
— Raymond Chandler
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There is no doctrine more fundamental to our work than the Atonement of Jesus Christ. At every appropriate opportunity, testify of the Savior and of…
— Richard G. Scott
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention…
— Epictetus
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Most of our life is unimportant, filled with trivial things from morning till night. But when it is transformed by love it is of interest…
— Dorothy Day
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The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are supported…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Even the smallest and most trivial thing can bring you happiness when you do it for another.
— Sun Myung Moon
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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 crowd out the…
— Douglas Merrill
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In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I…
— Gretchen Rubin
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Do not become so absorbed with trivial things that you miss learning the doctrine and teachings of the Lord.
— Richard G. Scott
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But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun.
— Meher Baba
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It's getting too late in my life to care about the small things. It's getting too late to not be brave, to not live my…
— Helen Hunt
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A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the…
— Walter Pater
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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in…
— Karl Marx
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When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.
— Ethel Merman
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When I tell children that they are far too dependent on their gizmos, they do not deny it. But they really don't care. This is…
— Bill O'Reilly
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried…
— Barack Obama
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She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way…
— Edith Wharton
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If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your…
— Umberto Eco
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