I think you are a liar because you think you know what is true. You think you feel what is true. But… — Alison Croggon Copy Share Image
“Odd, don't you think? I have seen war, and invasions and riots. I have heard of massacres and brutalities beyond imagining, and… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
Pettiness seems to go hand in hand with vindictiveness. The smaller the person, the larger the need for revenge. This may account… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
I have often thought how strange it is that men can at once and the same moment cheerfully consign our sex to… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The Tao has no place for pettiness, and nor has Virtue. Pettiness is dangerous to Virtue; pettiness is dangerous to the Tao.… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“Your tears are never invisible---there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs. — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“This terrible smallness of men was bigger than him, bigger than anything.” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
We all have demons inside us, Nick. The Tsalagi have an old saying—every heart holds two wolves. One is the white wolf,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Like families, competitors can bring out the worst as well as the best in each other. Like romance, competition has many faces,… — Mariah Nelson Copy Share Image
You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He was going to hurt the people he hated, but inside he didn't feel any real sense of satisfaction. He hated them… — Riccardo Bruni Copy Share Image
“I felt offended. So offended that I planned to ignore for the next few weeks the "friends" who'd sent me those pictures.… — Gabourey Sidibe Copy Share Image
One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness. — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Push hard to get better, become smarter, grow your devotion to the truth, fuel your commitment to beauty, refine your emotional intelligence,… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
You work here [on the farm] simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you… — A. D. Gordon Copy Share Image
“Actually it is annoying to see a grown up exhibiting pettiness in a way that shows they are proud of it. Worse… — DON SANTO Copy Share Image