If the world's nations can set aside their petty bickering over religion, politics, and territory, certainly I can 'get that Olympic Spirit'… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
How can it fail to smash and shatter the petty provincialism and narrow nantionalism ... making of this world a tragic mosaic… — Juan Trippe Copy Share Image
I don't understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That's not gonna work out, you know?… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance. — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
Labor is rest--from the sorrow that greet us; Rest from all petty vexations that meet us, Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat… — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
'Star Trek' works for me because it deals with the petty issues of humankind. — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
Apartheid — both petty and grand — is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has… — Steven Biko 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
Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
The dreamed outcome of launching a psychic attack can make you feel small and petty. I think for that reason I'm going… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
Never get into the petty habit of measuring yourself worth against other people's net worth. — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill… — E. F. Schumacher 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
Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To… — George Eliot 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
I have no use for "men's rights," any more than I have any use for "women's rights," but let us ask: Who… — Robert Stacy McCain Copy Share Image
Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is… — Felix Frankfurter 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
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
I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty. — Imelda Marcos 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
In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow-men,… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
As the tragic writer rids us of what is petty and ignoble in our nature, so also the humorist rids us of… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
