With such and the like fopperies were petty brains troubled.

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…

— Jess Weixler

“To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was “system,” and indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was “industry”,…

— Isaac Asimov

People throughout time have grieved, have fallen in love, have fallen out of love. We are sometimes petty and sometimes heroic, and we have…

— Monica Hesse

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not…

— Amitabh Bachchan

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

— Richard Wagner

I never said finish the Congress, because the opposition is needed... I do not have such petty imaginations.

— Uddhav Thackeray

I do like Tom Petty an awful lot. I always say that he's my real father, but I'm joking in that imaginary orphan way.

— Christina Ricci

“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To…

— William Shakespeare

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your…

— Robert Greene

Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of…

— Alexander Herzen

There are petty-minded people who cannot endure to be reminded of their ignorance because, since they are usually quite blind to all things, quite…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something…

— Edgar Mitchell

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

— Leonard Read

A man has only a limited number of ways in which he can express strong emotions or violent passions. He uses the same gestures…

— Tadeusz Borowski

Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing…

— Samuel Gompers