Quotes about Petty

Petty laws breed great crimes. Votes: 3

Petty things don't bother me as much as they used to. Votes: 3

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty. Votes: 3

I'm a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, they're my two favorites. Votes: 3

Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self. Votes: 3

I'd love to have an opportunity to tie the greats in Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Sr. Votes: 3

On the music side, I'm a cross between maybe that Texas songwriter and that Tom Petty feel. Votes: 3

Cultivated people foster what is good in others, not what is bad. Petty people do the opposite. Votes: 3

I'd always been a fan growing up, and in high school, I was really into Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen. Votes: 3

Hmm. Petty? Yes. Ineffectual? Yes. Infuriating and off-putting? Yes. Counterproductive? Yes. It's got to be a product of the French Foreign Ministry. Votes: 3

I've always loved Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and I watched the Petty documentary 'Running Down A Dream'. I was directly influenced, it made me want to go write. Votes: 3

Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother. Votes: 3

I'm looking forward to getting older. I look at people like Peter Gabriel and Sting and even Tom Petty, Don Henley. People that didn't lose it. I'm hopefully going to join that club. Votes: 3

Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most. Votes: 3

There is two types of Larceny, Petty and Grand. They are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the law, but judges always put a little extra on you for Petty, which is kind of a fine for stupidness. Votes: 3

Radio used to be dominated by Tom Petty and artists like that. If Tom Petty came out today, he'd be played on country radio - all that stuff would. I think the genre has opened itself up to more styles of country, and I think that's a good thing. Votes: 3

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success. Votes: 1

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things. Votes: 1

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. Votes: 1

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. Votes: 1

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive. Votes: 1

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse? Votes: 1

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host. Votes: 1

Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices. Votes: 1

My life is full of drama, and I don't have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like. Votes: 1

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. Votes: 1

Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same. Votes: 1

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom. Votes: 1

Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Votes: 1

I liked teaching, but the bureaucracy of academia and the petty intrigue... It wasn't a good fit. Once I admitted that myself, that I didn't like academia, I was ready to try TV. Votes: 1

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. Votes: 1

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. Votes: 1

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools. Votes: 1

The Hindu marriage may be described as the union of two families. In this union, there is no room for petty ambitions and personal ego-trips. What is involved is love for the entire family that one is marrying into. Votes: 1

We're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think, if there's a God - and I believe there is - that God is there to help. That's what God's job is. Votes: 1

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him. Votes: 1

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community. Votes: 1

Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash. Votes: 1

God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion. Votes: 1

Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy? Votes: 1

I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place. Votes: 1

Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it. Votes: 1

My secrets are petty but humiliating. Votes: 0

Guilt is petty; I am above guilt. Votes: 0

There's no room for petty grievances in politics. Votes: 0

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. Votes: 0

Men are separated by so many petty things. Votes: 0

Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still. Votes: 0

Beware of those who attribute petty instructions to God. Votes: 0

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty. Votes: 0

Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings. Votes: 0

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down Votes: 0

Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause. Votes: 0

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil Votes: 0

Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little. Votes: 0

Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Votes: 0

Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound. Votes: 0

I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness. Votes: 0

Never fear being a petty fool it means you ain't dying Votes: 0

Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance. Votes: 0

Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court. Votes: 0

I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them. Votes: 0

We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations. Votes: 0

In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow Votes: 0

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones. Votes: 0

Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses. Votes: 0

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. Votes: 0

Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive. Votes: 0

Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive Votes: 0

Fill your brain with giant dreams so it has no space for petty pursuits. Votes: 0

She wasn't speaking to me - in the juvenile, petty sense of the phrase. Votes: 0

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day Votes: 0

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty face from day to day. Votes: 0

Fee-fi-fo-fum, you better run and hideI smell the blood of a petty little coward Votes: 0

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government. Votes: 0

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. Votes: 0

How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts? Votes: 0

Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden. Votes: 0

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class. Votes: 0

Never get into the petty habit of measuring yourself worth against other people's net worth. Votes: 0

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close. Votes: 0

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality. Votes: 0

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty. Votes: 0

A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray. Votes: 0

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever. Votes: 0

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Votes: 0

I don’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like Votes: 0

A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation. Votes: 0

Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it. Votes: 0

What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children? Votes: 0

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men. Votes: 0

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles. Votes: 0

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way. Votes: 0

I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him. Votes: 0

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty. Votes: 0

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws. Votes: 0

I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty. Votes: 0

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor. Votes: 0

Don't let anyone drain you of your happiness today. Be drama free. Rise above the petty stuff. Votes: 0

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. Votes: 0

The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others. Votes: 0

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16) Votes: 0

We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections. Votes: 0

We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections. Votes: 0

What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite. Votes: 0

Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible? Votes: 0

The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.' Votes: 0

The petty man wants to use God for himself; the ambitious man wants God to use him for God. Votes: 0

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self. Votes: 0

Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount. Votes: 0

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft. Votes: 0

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities. Votes: 0

The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. Votes: 0

There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need.' Votes: 0

A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances. Votes: 0

Barbara Parkins was so rude and petty all of the time. I just found her behavior to be so silly. Votes: 0

How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! Votes: 0

I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit. Votes: 0

By removing that which is petty and self-seeking, we bring forth all that is glorious and mindful of the whole. Votes: 0

The death is unfortunate. It is an accident. It is not police atrocity . It is a small and petty matter. Votes: 0

The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare. Votes: 0

The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized. Votes: 0

We need to ascend beyond our own petty Resistance, our own negative self-judgment and self-sabotage, our own "I'm not worthy" mind-set. Votes: 0

There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and useless conventional virtue. Votes: 0

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children. Votes: 0

Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers. Votes: 0

This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes. Votes: 0

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage ... Votes: 0

Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is. Votes: 0

The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts. Votes: 0

If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become. Votes: 0

We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow. Votes: 0

Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind. Votes: 0

Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me. Votes: 0

Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish. Votes: 0

No. You said I looked "okay," which is petty much the same thing as saying, "Well, at least your nipples are covered. Votes: 0

The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp. Votes: 0

A lot of people think my sarcasm comes from insecurity and defensiveness, but I assure you I'm just being petty and cruel. Votes: 0

Very few worries can stand against the influence of a good long walk ... How many petty annoyances have I thus walked away! Votes: 0

Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road. Votes: 0

The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free. Votes: 0

They all do the same things. They may think their sins are original, but for the most part they are petty and repetitive. Votes: 0

Do no evilness because it is a small one; do not leave a small deed undone because it is just a petty one. Votes: 0

He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit. Votes: 0

I do not see why I should be polite to tyrants, who slobber of humanitarianism and think only of their own petty interests. Votes: 0

Nice mix of Tory MPs saying this issue shouldn't be used for petty political pointscoring, & Tory MPs trying to score petty political points. Votes: 0

There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary. Votes: 0

Two wrongs don't make a right, but neither does one. Revenge may seem petty by day, but on some nights she becomes Justice. Votes: 0

As leaders, we need to rise above petty politics and lead, rather than follow, the various interests and pressure groups in our respective countries. Votes: 0

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. Votes: 0

The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust the bourgeoisie. Votes: 0

The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one's own character. Votes: 0

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. Votes: 0

Fight only in direst need Not for lust or petty greed Honor those that do give birth Respect them well for their full worth Votes: 0

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien. Votes: 0

Life punishes those who have things in abundance by making them worry about petty things like: what to wear, or, which car to drive. Votes: 0

There would be very little to dislike in other people if we refused to bring to them all of our own judgements and petty grievances. Votes: 0

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow worldLike a Colossus; and we petty menWalk under his huge legs, and peep aboutTo find ourselves dishonourable graves. Votes: 0

Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions. Votes: 0

Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less. Votes: 0

You are such a chicken. Bock. Bock. Bock." He refused to allow her very bad chicken impression to ruffle his feathers. He was above petty name-calling. Votes: 0

The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence.... Votes: 0

I heard that [Clarkson] said some petty things about someone I care deeply about, so I just made some petty remarks 'cause I'm a petty guy. Votes: 0

Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life. Votes: 0

How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! Votes: 0

And deep down, she felt like maybe she didn't deserve it-that she belonged with the petty thieves and guys who drank Pabst Blue Ribbon for breakfast Votes: 0

This is payback, isn't it?" Jim glared at me. "Don't be ridiculous," I told him. "As the Consort of the Pack, I'm far above petty revenge. Votes: 0

I feel like most people aren't either/or, they're both/and. You're both magnanimous and petty. You're both kind and cruel. You're never just one thing. Votes: 0

You've got a lot to look forward to in Heaven. Compared to what's in store for you in Heaven, your current pain and problems are petty. Votes: 0

There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration. Votes: 0

Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man? Votes: 0

But they were as different as fire and ice. Robert Kennedy thought Eugene McCarthy was pompous, petty, and venal. McCarthy thought Kennedy was a spoiled, unintelligent demagogue. Votes: 0

The dreamed outcome of launching a psychic attack can make you feel small and petty. I think for that reason I'm going to refrain from launching any. Votes: 0

I had come out of a church that was filled with petty arguments and hatred. I just wanted to meet with some friends and worship with them. Votes: 0

Don't be so petty. Sometimes you have to do business with people you don't like. It doesn't mean you have to be like them or like them. Votes: 0

If you have only been around people who use power in cruel and petty ways, then when you hear the very word, you may have a negative reaction. Votes: 0

Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty. Votes: 0

News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to communicate what they have just learned. Votes: 0

Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life? Votes: 0

My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature Votes: 0

A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him Votes: 0

The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought. Votes: 0

In books and movies infidelity always looks so compelling, so right. Here are people who defy petty convention and are rewarded with only the tastiest bits of human experience. Votes: 0

Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil ... Votes: 0

That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty. Votes: 0

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul. Votes: 0

She thought that after what she had been through during the invasion she would stop being petty and grow up, grow wise and strong, but she had overestimated herself" Votes: 0

I don't think there's a petty system of heaven and hell. The love of God is much more forgiving. I'm not a believer in a wrathful God at all. Votes: 0

But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra. Votes: 0

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times. Votes: 0

I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. It forgets the great way home that lies before it. Votes: 0

No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the petty decrees of social bureaucracy. Votes: 0

Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil. Votes: 0

There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark. Votes: 0

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Votes: 0

At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior. Votes: 0

Amazon is famously run by studying and responding to its own data; yet when it comes to promotions, decisions are often subjective and guided by human emotions and petty political dynamics. Votes: 0

Nothing about character is hereditary. Everyone, regardless of social background, financial status, race, or sex, enters the world with an equal opportunity to become a person of great or petty character. Votes: 0

Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us; from all the petty vexations that meet us; from the sin-promptings that assail us; from the world-sirens that lure us to ill Votes: 0

Life's to short to spend it fighting when you could be holding the one you love. And love's to rare to squnder it with petty concerns." The Apolloite groom to Rafael Votes: 0

I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty. Votes: 0

The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power. Votes: 0

One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it. Votes: 0

Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the begged or gratuitous approval of others. Votes: 0

Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries. Votes: 0

If you're having a bad day already and everybody is just asking you petty questions, it drives people to the edge, or something really small will have a really large effect. Votes: 0

To just burn out, to give up just because things don't go your way, to assume that there is no God, no infinite light - I think that's pretty petty, personally. Votes: 0

Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh- I really think that requires spirit! Votes: 0

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. Votes: 0

We're not going to pay attention to the silliness and the petty comments. And quite frankly, women have joined me in this effort, and so it's not about appearances. It's about effectiveness. Votes: 0

If you're going to be a wannabe, make sure you 'wannabe' something great. The most shocking thing about wannabes, is they largely want to be something irrelevant, vein, or just plain petty. Votes: 0

Apartheid — both petty and grand — is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority. Votes: 0

The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows. Votes: 0

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself Votes: 0

It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles. Votes: 0

The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases. Votes: 0

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. Votes: 0

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either. Votes: 0

All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is. Votes: 0

Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject, but wasting time with false, petty goals; as soon as you connect with your true subject you will write. Votes: 0

It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings Votes: 0

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe. Votes: 0

You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer. Votes: 0

The God I believe in is not so fragile that you hurt Him by being angry at him, or so petty that He will hold it against you for being upset with Him. Votes: 0

If we destroy the biosphere, then mankind will die. We all waste our time worrying about stupid wars and petty jealousy and greed, and all the time, we're sitting on a time bomb. Votes: 0

Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better. Votes: 0

Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each other's backs. It's seriously twisted. Votes: 0

What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor. Votes: 0

The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character. Votes: 0

Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark? Or why the barons ganged up on Richard II? Votes: 0

Attack The Block' is an alien invasion film set in South London. It's about a group of kids who are some petty thugs, who have to find the hero in themselves, when they attack. Votes: 0

War provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny, glorifies cruelty and places in positions of power the vulgar and base. Votes: 0

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Votes: 0

I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it. Votes: 0

Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.' Votes: 0

Be reflective...and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty interests, its inbreeding tendencies, its stifling atmosphere, its corroding influence. Once become Votes: 0

The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, culture. It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing art to defend their collapsing culture. Votes: 0

We are the benefactors of too much sacrifice and blood, sweat and tears to allow petty differences and trivial discrepancies to continue to separate and divide US, while we are being used, exploited and conquered. Votes: 0

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal. Votes: 0

The private devotions and secret offices of religion are like the refreshing of a garden with the distilling and petty drops of a waterpot; but addressed from the temple, they are like ram from heaven. Votes: 0

I am aware that the battle I am fighting is a petty one, but I am also aware that in order to win that which is great, you must first win that which is small. Votes: 0

The Band was always famous for its retirements we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again. Votes: 0

The Band was always famous for its retirements; we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again. Votes: 0

There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the STORY of our lives better. Votes: 0

People in Parliament occupy themselves with private animosities and petty quarrels, and think little of the national interest. It is impossible to credit the serene indifference with which they consider events outside their own country. Votes: 0