#trite

I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and explosive but if he taught me one thing it was to air my views. ↗

— Vince Cable

#because #been #debates #difference #explosive

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 a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes. ↗

— Sherilyn Fenn

#based #because #circumstance #coming #could

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 think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#culture #globalization #gotten #kind #me

It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate. ↗

— Peter Krause

#communicate #relationships #sounds #trite #you

Talking about the democratization of fashion is just one of the many trite things people say these days. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#days #democratization #fashion #just #just one

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 place, but I am a realist. ↗

— Warren Rudman

#bad #disaster #every #facing #good

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 true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play. ↗

— Patrick Marber

#characters #emotionally #emotions #events #everything

It is tragic to see how the religious sentiment of the West has become so individualized that concepts such as "a contrite heart," have come to refer only to the personal experiences of guilt and willingness to do penance for it. The awareness of our impurity in thoughts, words and deeds can indeed put us in a remorseful mood and create in us the hope for a forgiving gesture. But if the catastrophical events of our days, the wars, mass murders, unbridled violence, crowded prisons, torture chambers, the hunger and the illness of millions of people and he unnamable misery of a major part of the human race is safely kept outside the solitude of our hearts, our contrition remains no more than a pious emotion. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#heart #pious #experience

It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#appealing #becomes #been #go #hurt

My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball. ↗

— David Duchovny

#back #ball #been #being #brotherhood