
Top 26 Frivolities Quotes
#1. Most people are too busy working on insignificant projects and pursuing life's frivolities to tap their creative abilities. It's a mistake to be one of them. Striving for excellence where excellence doesn't matter is the stuff misfits are made of.
Ernie J Zelinski
#2. Book collecting is a full-time occupation, and one wouldn't get far if one took time off for frivolities like reading.
A.N.L. Munby
#3. She tried to make friends, but her peers immersed themselves in frivolities that held no interest to her. She tried to respect her elders, but most adults seemed like nothing more than aging children, lacking
Dan Brown
#4. They had no more depth than their Facebook posts. Than their relentless egoism. Than their soulless frivolities.
J.R. Ward
#5. The moral qualities are more apt to grow when a human being is useful, and they increase in the woman who helps to support the family rather than in the one who gives herself to idleness and fashionable frivolities.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#6. So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire ... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.
Michelangelo
#7. The ***** is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent.
Che Guevara
#8. Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and 'be furnished with a stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and appropriated ... ' - Hannah More
Karen Swallow Prior
#9. Most every charge you level at American capitalism applies with equal force to communism, with this nice difference, that the Reds make no pretense at such frivolities as civil liberties or environmentalism. The differences in degree are so great that they result in a radical difference in kind.
Edward Abbey
#10. The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
Akio Morita
#11. This is reality, whether you like it or not
all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.
Willa Cather
#12. Do not be so hard on the child. She is a product of her upbringing, just as you are. If you judge her worth based on frivolities, then you are doing the same as those who judge you based on your simple clothing.
Brandon Sanderson
#14. I wished I hadn't majored in women filling their pockets with stones and sticking their heads into ovens.
Maybe tomorrow the pinhole would widen and I would want to be a marine biologist.
Kat Clark
#15. The creator of stars, heaven and earth
surpassed himself when he also created pain. Lips like rubies, delicious-smelling hair, blooming flowers, how many of you are
already buried in earthy soil?
Omar Khayyam
#16. Fatigue meant nothing when you actually wanted to suffer.
Lev Grossman
#17. I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.
John Cage
#18. Don't wait for a Gandhi, don't wait for a King, don't wait for a Mandela. You are your own Mandela, you are your own Gandhi, you are your own King.
Leymah Gbowee
#19. Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually.
Guido Van Rossum
#20. What scares me the most is that both the poker bot and Dropbox started out as distractions. That little voice in my head was telling me where to go, and the whole time I was telling it to shut up so I could get back to work. Sometimes that little voice knows best.
Drew Houston
#21. We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#22. Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
Bill Crawford
#23. Once you are miserable you are miserable there's no getting out of misery even if you'll be succeeded to get out of it,once again it will hunt you down and conquer it will conquer your heart once again best way to deal with it is to enjoy it.
Fahad Hassan
#24. We can change reality just from assumptions accepted as true, regardless if they could be quantifiably accepted as true through the physical
Russell Eric Dobda
#25. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.
Anais Nin
#26. If you let yourself tell those smaller anecdotes or stories, the overarching capital-S Story will eventually rise into view.
Mary Karr
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