Petty Quotes · Page 5

When I was growing up in Salford, I was always in trouble. It was stuff like petty crime and all sorts of…

— Bez

“Don’t be unwilling to take those little steps; in them are residing great journeys. Move on.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this…

— Bob Dylan

Never get into the petty habit of measuring yourself worth against other people's net worth.

— Robin Sharma

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

— George Mason

They all do the same things. They may think their sins are original, but for the most part they are petty and…

— Neil Gaiman

“They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries.”

— Tim Sanders

There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need.'

— Leonard Read

the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low,…

— Gertrude Atherton

Over half a century on and they're still complaining about it. Compare it to the fact that Garden State didn't win an…

— Zach Braff

There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves…

— David Foster Wallace

The fact of the matter is that poor men do not often steal, and when they do, it is petty theft, something…

— Louis L'Amour

Every small wrong, every minor act of cruelty, every act of petty bullying was symbolic of a greater wrong. And if we…

— Alexander McCall Smith

There may be something petty in a refined taste; it easily degenerates into effeminacy. It does not consider the broadest use. It…

— Henry David Thoreau

Be reflective...and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty…

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

Physically helping me with advice and direction and a job was Richard Petty. He did a lot for me at a young…

— Michael Waltrip

Alas! fond child, How are thy thoughts beguil'd To hope for honey from a nest of wasps? Thou may'st as well Go…

— Francis Quarles

I have been reading Madame Roland's memoirs and have come to the conclusion that she was a very over-rated woman; snobbish, vain,…

— Madame Roland

When I think about the holidays, I think about the Salvation Army guys ringing bells in front of stores. They're always so…

— Zach Braff

Bill Clinton had a hell of a first 24 months, even though he, like Trump, enjoyed a congressional majority. Scandal after scandal…

— Joy Reid

I use music as something from which I obtain some form of - I hate to use the word spiritual - guidance,…

— Richard Meale

I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and…

— William James

It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust…

— Alexander Hamilton

When you go back and listen to 30 years of Tom Petty records, they are pretty consistent. I love that.

— Taylor Goldsmith

Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?

— Adelaide Anne Procter

I've seen people get robbed, seen people get shot with my own eyes, for pointless petty crimes.

— Anthony Yarde

I don’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like

— Adele

I'm a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, they're my two favorites.

— Andrew Shue

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.

— John Mellencamp

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

— Samuel Johnson

Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive

— Seamus Heaney

Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.

— Tom Petty

Cannot wait till high school is over so I don't have to deal with petty drama.

— Anonymous

Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.

— Thomas Sowell

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

— Theophrastus

Barbara Parkins was so rude and petty all of the time. I just found her behavior to be so silly.

— Lana Wood

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.

— Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

— William Shakespeare

Her heart loves me but her mind does not. I am just trying to come across her mind like a petty thought.

— Raghib Clitso