I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Do no evilness because it is a small one; do not leave a small deed undone because it is just a petty… — Liu Bei Copy Share Image
Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The road to some of the darkest moments of history have been paved with the rants of petty demagogues against ethnic minorities… — Bob Menendez Copy Share Image
I love Tom Petty! 'The Waiting' is one of my favorite songs. He's a cool dude. — Everlast Copy Share Image
There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.' — George Grosz Copy Share Image
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a Country. As nations can not… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Yes, Operation Block Ivanka was petty. Melania was in on this mission. But in our minds, Ivanka shouldn't have made herself the… — Stephanie Winston Wolkoff Copy Share Image
For Star Trek proves, as faulty as individual episodes could be, is that the much-maligned common man and common woman has an… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things… — Aaron Tveit Copy Share Image
Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel… — James Otis Copy Share Image
One of my major shortcomings - I'm vindictive. I don't know why that is. Even in petty things in my life I… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
We are the benefactors of too much sacrifice and blood, sweat and tears to allow petty differences and trivial discrepancies to continue… — T.I Copy Share Image
I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
Anyway, when I finished the book, I handed it in, didn't want to read it again, but when it finally was in… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabia is the most fragile of all Arab states, though we're not saying so. And, unfortunately, bin Laden puts his finger… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
[Slave] trade ... is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish ... liberty, and… — James Otis Copy Share Image
Punk can be a mental ghetto. People get into it and make all these rules and pretty soon they're worse than born… — Jesse Michaels Copy Share Image
To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Our role as artist is more controversial now because there are those, claiming the absolute authority of religion, who detest much of… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Hell, I'd even failed with women. Three wives. Nothing really wrong each time. It all got destroyed by petty bickering. Railing about… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet… — George Julius Poulett Scrope Copy Share Image
Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When sports gets involved with petty politics from authorities and co-athletes, it becomes a nasty game. — P. T. Usha Copy Share Image
At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of all party systems that the authentically political talents can assert themselves only in rare cases, and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I've always loved Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and I watched the Petty documentary 'Running Down A Dream'. I was directly influenced,… — Robert Coppola Schwartzman Copy Share Image
The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
One who aspires to greatness should read and study, pursuing the True Way with such a firm resolve that he is perfectly… — Yoshida Shoin Copy Share Image
Men spend their life down here in the worship of petty (or mean) interests and the search of perishable things, and with… — African Spir Copy Share Image
There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do. It's one reason… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
it is a mistake to talk of the twilight of age, or the blurred sight of old people. The long day grows… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
I want to play a real man in all my films, and I define manhood simply: men should be tough, fair, and… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
'Attack The Block' is an alien invasion film set in South London. It's about a group of kids who are some petty… — John Boyega Copy Share Image
There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of… — Joey Comeau Copy Share Image
Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things… — Aaron Tveit Copy Share Image
![“[Slave] trade ... is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish ... liberty, and makes every dealer in it a tyrant, from the director of an African company to the petty chapman [peddler]… It is a clear truth, that those who every day barter away other men's…” quote by James Otis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6fb/james-otis-16854_business_slave-trade-is-the-most-shocking-violati_2681531.jpg)
