Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness. — Honore de Balzac 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
Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive. — Sebastian Faulks 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
Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Bloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rather impose himself on people than… — Christopher Hitchens 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
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
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
“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
In the absence of a great dream pettiness prevails. Shred visions foster risk taking, courage and innovation. Keeping the end in mind… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to… — Baroness Orczy 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
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 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
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
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
“The creation of man is evidence for the love of God, the preservation of man is evidence for the patience of God,… — Criss Jami 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
I think now it's a very odd time in politics. It should be mostly about good governing. We need a government, not… — Daphne Guinness 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
“We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening… — Anonymous 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
It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled… — Aristotle 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
But the writer who endures and keeps working will finally know that writing the book was something hard and glorious, for at… — Andre Dubus 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
“Most people were already living inside their own irritation.” — Belinda Kelderhouse Copy Share Image
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt. — Jean Racine 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
“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
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