Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs. — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Laughing at your pettiness probably works better than scolding yourself for it.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“This terrible smallness of men was bigger than him, bigger than anything.” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“He looked tired, irritated, and slightly defeated. It was beautiful.” — Belinda Kelderhouse Copy Share Image
“In the presence of greatness, pettiness disappears. In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails.” — Peter M. Senge 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
When we play the part of a great man too much, we seem very small. — Philippe Nericault Destouches Copy Share Image
“It is hard to dispute the evidence that we are a race defined to a significant degree by our pettiness, by how… — Christine Sneed Copy Share Image
I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
In our daily life, we encounter people we are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying ere is so their own needs. There… — Margaret J. Wheatley 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
“On the whole I consider the constant need for delight and diversion in completely new things to be a sign of pettiness,… — Robert Walser 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
In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness: forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude... the absence of profound thankfulness. — Mary Anne Radmacher 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
We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats,… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You are different from the really great man in only one thing: The great man, at one time, also was a very… — Wilhelm Reich 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
It was a time period in the 1960, when a generation of souls looked at the established society, looked at the pettiness,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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
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 decided to keep a record of my inmost real-self thoughts. Perhaps it will help me to find out what I… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
“You don't have to knock anyone off their game to win yours. It doesn’t build you up to tear others down.” — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
“Isn't that petty?" "Anna, you have not yet seen pettiness. When a couple of tough guys like the general and Lugala Tsu… — Eleanor Arnason Copy Share Image
“Every day, God grants us the precious gift of life. Yet every day, we squander it with our selfish, petty concerns, rather… — Kirn Hans 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
Once you have been confronted with a life-and-death situation, trivia no longer matters. Your perspective grows and you live at a deeper… — Happy Rockefeller 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 true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness. — George Iles Copy Share Image
One of the gifts our planet gave us is to love completely. Without jealousy or insecurity or fear. Without pettiness. Without anger. — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
Is all anger sin? No, but some of it is. Even God Himself has righteous anger against sin, injustice, rebellion and pettiness. — Joyce Meyer 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
Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“You can't discuss the ocean with a well frog - he's limited by the space he lives in. You can't discuss ice… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“How quickly pettiness returns, and that most ignoble form of real estate, the possessive occupation and tyranny over two square inches of… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
You are chosen to be faithful women of God in our day, to stand above pettiness, gossip, selfishness, lewdness, and all other… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
