Quotes of: Triviality Keyword

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Bertrand Russell

Cosmetic surgery is not "cosmetic," and human flesh is not "plastic." Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not like ironing wrinkles in fabric, or tuning up a car, or altering outmoded clothes, the current metaphors. Trivialization and infantil...

The Beauty Myth

In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.

Richard Armour

For the true artist, there is no trivial thing.

Marty Rubin

Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

Hans Haacke

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Clifton Fadiman

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.

Sophie Hunger

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

Virginia Woolf

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

Duane Michals

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Tom Stoppard

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.

William Bennett

In that six months, so much happened that death seemed, primarily, inconvenient. The trial period was extended. I seem to keep extending it. There are many things to do. There are books to write and naps to take. There are movies to see and scrambled...

Marya Hornbacher

Good sociologists have always had an insatiable curiosity about about even the trivialities of human behaviour, and if this curiosity leads a sociologist to devote many years to the painstaking exploration of some small corner of the social world tha...

Life

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.

Eric Kandel

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

Irvin S. Cobb

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.

Johnny Ball

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

John Fowles

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Julius Caesar

Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.

Park Chan-wook

Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness.

Richard Dawkins

I think the problem with the word 'happiness' is that it sounds fluffy. It sounds like something trivial that we shouldn't be concerned with.

Daniel Goldstein