An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance. — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices. — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty. — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can't stay long. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
We [people] are made separate by the things we do or do not do. Responsibilities of all types curb us. Desire betrays… — Jill Alexander Essbaum Copy Share Image
The attention is to be kept pure. In Sahaja Yoga you know all the methods how the attention, one can keep it… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
When you see a Bruce Springsteen or Tom Petty or Jackson Browne show, the impression you get is that you'd love to… — Taylor Goldsmith Copy Share Image
We need to ascend beyond our own petty Resistance, our own negative self-judgment and self-sabotage, our own "I'm not worthy" mind-set. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a petty system of heaven and hell. The love of God is much more forgiving. I'm not a… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
Radio used to be dominated by Tom Petty and artists like that. If Tom Petty came out today, he'd be played on… — Charles Kelley Copy Share Image
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
It struck me that the popularity of Christmas is a matter of web-like consciousness. Childhood conditions us to relax and expand at… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
There seems to be an unalterable contradiction between the human mind and its employments. How can a soul be a merchant? What… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
You, methinks you think you love me well; For me, I love you somewhat; rest: and Love Should have some rest and… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The greatest benefit derived from the study of science is that it lifts you out of and above the littleness of daily… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
The Sage of Toronto... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a "global village" instantly and effortlessly accessible to… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
According to the dictionary, knock has two definitions: "to strike something with a sharp blow," and "to find fault with, a harsh… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism - the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big Landlord class and… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
It is also an absolute mistake to believe that the State can be anything other than a civitas diaboli if it does… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
To fly! to live as airmen live! Like them to ride the skyways from horizon to horizon, across rivers and forests! To… — Henri Mignet Copy Share Image
That sense – the only true patriotism – comes slowly and springs from the heart: it is founded upon respect for the… — Livy Copy Share Image