The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host. — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
“Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
You know, we're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They thrive on… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
When a child my mother taught me the legends of our people; taught me of the sun and sky, the moon and… — Geronimo Copy Share Image
I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There be as many persons of a king, as there be petty constables in his kingdom. And so there are, or else… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims. — Christian Nestell Bovee 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
I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty. — Nick Carter Copy Share Image
The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Don't waste your time trying to provide people with proof of deceit, in order to keep their love, win their love or… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I think people have turned terrorists into these larger-than-life devils and so are unable to write about them in the obvious way,… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
I mean, you could have said Elvis Presley was new wave when it happened. I heard Willy DeVille and Tom Petty and… — George Thorogood Copy Share Image
If you have a large number of unrelated ideas, you have to get quite a distance away from them to get a… — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Ah! In fact there are two moralities ... The petty one, the conventional one, the one devised by men, that keeps changing… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
