Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive. — Sebastian Faulks 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
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness. — Honore de Balzac 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
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt. — Jean Racine 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
“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
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
Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness: forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude... the absence of profound thankfulness. — Mary Anne Radmacher 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
“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 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
The Constitution gives us a standard to follow. We cannot define impeachable offenses to a greater degree than the language of the… — Asa Hutchinson 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
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily… — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
“Most people were already living inside their own irritation.” — Belinda Kelderhouse 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
“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
“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
“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
Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord. — Joe Walsh 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
“She [did feel] made aware of the pettiness of some part of her, and of human relations how flawed they are, how… — Virginia Woolf 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
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