“I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
On the music side, I'm a cross between maybe that Texas songwriter and that Tom Petty feel. — Bryan Hayes Copy Share Image
The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The people are sick and tired of finger-pointing and petty partisan politics. — Tom Suozzi Copy Share Image
Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it. — Confucius Copy Share Image
I'd always been a fan growing up, and in high school, I was really into Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen. — Bryan Hayes Copy Share Image
There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing.… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“It seems to me now almost incredibly wonderful that, with that swift fate hanging over us, men could go about their petty… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Hmm. Petty? Yes. Ineffectual? Yes. Infuriating and off-putting? Yes. Counterproductive? Yes. It's got to be a product of the French Foreign Ministry. — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The singular man is singular in comparison to other men, but a companion of Heaven. So it is said, the petty man… — Burton Watson Copy Share Image
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
I was happy as a child with my toys in my nursery. I been happier every year since I became a man.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I have never in my life seen a more petty, childish, bitter, soon-to-be ex-president of the United States. Barack Obama is in… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There are petty-minded people who cannot endure to be reminded of their ignorance because, since they are usually quite blind to all… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
It's hard to believe that these self-centered people have nuclear weapons that they can fire at any moment. Even modern wars are… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
I do like Tom Petty an awful lot. I always say that he's my real father, but I'm joking in that imaginary… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
Very few worries can stand against the influence of a good long walk ... How many petty annoyances have I thus walked away! — Charlotte Alington Barnard Copy Share Image
It's not that I was not getting offers but I don't want to do petty and insignificant roles again and again. — Vishwajeet Pradhan Copy Share Image
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
'Star Trek' works for me because it deals with the petty issues of humankind. — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite. — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“Two wrongs don't make a right, but neither does one. Revenge may seem petty by day, but on some nights she becomes… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
I have two little boys, and I want them to feel like this is the nation that I know. That this is… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I can sit around and wait for you to not be mad at me for something so petty or I can move… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My life is full of drama, and I don't have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like. — Adele Copy Share Image
“You can’t let the petty shit stop you from being who you are. And getting what you want.” — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
