#fling

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#because #concept #profound #sometimes #wrong

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#been #fooling #forever #function #god

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. ↗

— John Andrew Holmes

#entire #entire universe #exception #others #remember

The network and local TV angle of broadcast television has received a black eye for not properly debating within the news issues that should be debated, instead of shuffling them of to television advertising. ↗

— Mark E. Hyman

#angle #black #broadcast #debated #debating

You see these shuffling rows of shiny faces, waiting for their turn, so they're very dedicated to the program and desperate to know what it is they've got - so often, they have no idea. ↗

— Michael Aspel

#desperate #faces #got #idea #know

Early youth is a baffling time. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#early #time #youth

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#great #great ones #like #magnifies #microscope

In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#clashing #could #crushing #discords #feel

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#die #fling #proportion #us #words

It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme. ↗

— William Cowper

#blest #blood #chills #each #hear