Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
Oscar Wilde
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell
The company does seem to be doing better already than it did any time it did during 2004, ... The lack of publicly available financials continues to be a hindrance, and that's not a trivial issue.
Jamie Friedman
Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white wine and the arugula salad.
David Denby
Many people wrongly assume the most important issue is money. While it isn't trivial, it's way down the list.
Ken Dychtwald
In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.
Henry Clay
In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.
Richard Armour
This is not a trivial exercise. There were network deployment issues and various planning to do with this kind of migration. But we're now in a beta-testing phase with our select mobile users.
Ajay Singh
And that risk is not trivial.
Alastair Wood
I like the trivial, vulgar and exalted.
J. V. Cunningham
Planes can move a long distance in as little as five seconds, so losing an aircraft for 20 seconds is not a trivial matter. The reliability and efficiency of these radar systems is vital to the safety of air travel. This is just another example of the FAA cutting corners on safety.
Dave Spero
There's now an avalanche of poker books coming out. We have a reputation for putting out the very best books and we have no competitors in that respect. We're not putting out trivial books. These are like textbooks.
Mason Malmuth
The trivial round, the common task, / Would furnish all we ought to ask; / Room to deny ourselves, a road / To bring us, daily, nearer God.
John Keble
The Rube Goldberg demonstrations are always well-attended on campus because it's fun to see how complicated our engineering students can make even the most trivial of actions. Sometimes their inventions work great. It is a fun exercise in semi-futility that produces a lot of camaraderie among the students who build these machines.
Bill Graff
I don't want to suggest that the AOL division is trivial -- it's not. But it has to be put into context. We look at AOL as a small part of the pie.
Henry Berghoef
The risk to a given individual from having some saccharin-sweetened soda or coffee is really trivial. It's when you multiply that times 200 million people that the risk becomes much more significant.
Michael Jacobson
He knew something about everything. He was a walking encyclopedia. You couldn't play him in Trivial Pursuit. You could only try to contain him. He had not only read about everything, he had been there.
Scott Fraser
It's not a trivial process.
John Chapman
Trivial, personal and entirely benign activities and attempted to distort them into criminal acts.
Reid Weingarten
All this may seem trivial, but football is what we do, and that's what our jobs are.
David Hansen
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
Mary Mccarthy
Literally the most trivial thing gets charged to the taxpayer, (and) things that the average person would never think of trying to buy, like a $70 steak.
Howard Hampton
We disclosed this to Oracle on Oct. 25 last year. Around the same time, they were alerted to another high-risk flaw that is not as serious as this one. They fixed that one in the January CPU but neglected to fix this. It's not a case of not having enough time, because the fix is trivial and the risks are severe.
David Litchfield
These are powerful drugs. This is not trivial medicine, ... This is major-league stuff.
Michael Weintraub
Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
George Jean Nathan
Oracle still has not released an official patch, so it is still leaving its customers at risk. It is a trivial thing to fix. If the company is still working on it, I do not understand why.
David Litchfield
Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.
Sogyal Rinpoche
Despite the pleasure, interest and quality of life I was getting from television and film, it really was not making me happy. I realized theater was where I simply had to be. It's a sense of age -- I don't want to waste my time. I just want everything to be important and not to be trivial.
Patrick Stewart
It's not trivial. The hard part is building something that people can use and having it scale to millions of people.
David Patterson
I find it trivial.
Angela Merkel
The day of admission should be all about making your loved one comfortable in their new surroundings, not worrying about trivial details.
Joann Anderson
I thought a lot of people would dismiss the subject as trivial, ... and ... that regardless of what I achieved, the subject would be dismissed. I think I've been gratified more than anything. Whether people like the book or don't like the book, they treat the subject as worthy of discussion.
Peter Guralnick
For me, it put a lot things in perspective. There are so many things that we take for granted. Seeing how people live over there makes all our worries seem very trivial.
Sarah Bunting
No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
Richard Feynman
This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error, however, is not new.
Clifford Truesdell
It made me realize that I'd changed what I thought was a trivial aspect of who I was but it profoundly made a difference in the way the world perceived me. That was when I thought it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.
Malcolm Gladwell
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
Irvin S. Cobb
The state core (curriculum), I believe, supports the Alpine program. If you were to get the elementary math (teacher) endorsement program, you could look at it and the math is almost trivial. It's mostly about pedagogy.
David Wright
Considering the risk I am about to take, I will require a minimum payment of 13 million U.S. dollars. There are many people from movie stars to athletes in the U.S. who receive tens of millions of dollars a year for their trivial contributions.
Larry Thompson
This kind of tasteless and trivial portrayal of God does a disservice to the millions of American television viewers who have deeply felt religious beliefs.
Nihad Awad
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
George Steiner
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
Charles Baudelaire
We're not talking about some trivial violation.
Gordon Ritchie
If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.
William Bennett
The technical problem is trivial. The hard part is getting everyone to agree on the same protocol.
Don Norman
Complying with COPPA is not trivial. You have to have a clean site, gathering no information whatsoever, to be safe.
Peter Rowe
But it is a trivial exercise unless he changes his outlook.
Tushar Gandhi
We always had fun together. We enjoyed playing board games together. My mother's favorite was 'Trivial Pursuit' ... she always won. She also loved 'Jeopardy.' She always knew all the answers.
Meghan Bright
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
Tom Stoppard
The party has managed to make a major issue out of something trivial.
Trevor Lunn
All that stuff is trivial to me. People lost their lives; people without home insurance lost their homes. My stuff can be replaced, because I've been blessed. Lives can't be replaced. Friends of mine are still looking for their siblings and their mothers and fathers. I don't care about my stuff.
Jamaal Magloire
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
Henry Clay
Relative to what's at stake, it's trivial. What was at stake was a violation of the core principle of the universality of the human right of religious liberty.
Robert Seiple
I don't think it's appropriate -- except when they're very, very young -- for parents to let their kids win. If you're looking at Trivial Pursuit, maybe that means giving the parents harder questions than the children. You're still playing the game, and everyone is participating at their best level.
Mara Kaplan
For an individual consumer, the money and effort spent purchasing these products is not trivial ? as many as 12 percent of purchased products are never used and eventually discarded. By understanding why we buy products we never use, we can change our purchase and usage habits to reduce product abandonment, thereby saving money and reducing waste.
Brian Wansink
To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.
Johnny Ball
It's a mistake to equate the relative trivial size of the settlement to any indication of what click fraud actually is.
Chuck Richard
It might seem trivial to be discussing Mardi Gras at this point, but when you consider what Mardi Gras is to tourism and what tourism is to New Orleans, it's very, very important.
Barry Kern
You really find out what's important in life. The things that I was worried about when I was living in New Orleans and everything was OK are really trivial compared to what really matters.
Jonathan Ruffin
This problem exists whether you use WEP or not, but it is trivial to exploit if not using WEP.
William Arbaugh
While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
Andrea Dworkin
We know from Census Bureau surveys that something beyond a hundred thousand uses of guns for self-defense occur every year. We know from smaller surveys of a commercial nature that the number may be as high as two-and-a-half or three million. We don't know what the right number is, but whatever the right number is, it's not a trivial number.
James Q. Wilson
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
Eugene O'neill
If you're on the West Coast and you're dealing with Bangalore, you can never talk to them on the phone when you're in the office. It's not a trivial issue. You have to change some of the ways that you work.
Erran Carmel
We're not going to stand up and say that these 14 things make us human, ... But it's not trivial to be able to say, 'Here is an inventory of the most important differences, and now go at it and figure out which of these differences contain the signatures of what is distinctively human.'
Eric Lander
This is not a trivial matter. From my perspective, this case demonstrates a blatant disregard for the privilege of owning a liquor license and for city ordinances designed to regulate the sale of alcohol.
Ellen Anderson
As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, "Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you."
Elizabeth Kenny
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