The private devotions and secret offices of religion are like the refreshing of a garden with the distilling and petty drops of… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
War provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny,… — C. E. M. Joad Copy Share Image
“Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann 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
If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Growing older is an opportunity for you to increase your value and competence as the neural connections in your hippocampus and throughout… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I don't understand why everybody can't remember how exciting the Daytona 500 has been over the years when Richard Petty and David… — Michael Waltrip 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
As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention physical decline and inevitable petty… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Everybody in the world has to compromise. I don't know one person that gets everything they want, so the politicians are going… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The name of the show was 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,' not 'Philip and Viv of Bel-Air.' If you didn't want to… — James Avery Copy Share Image
“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If someone is being unkind or petty or jealous or distant or weird, you don't have to take it in. You don't… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Just a glass of beer, a piece of dry bread—and in one moment the brain is stronger, the mind is clearer and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Never be petty. Do not feed resentments against anyone. I prefer good-hearted sinners to so called good people who are intolerant and… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and… — Kent Nerburn 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
All nonstate threats to life, liberty, and property appear to be relatively petty and therefore can be dealt with. Only states can… — Robert Higgs 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
We're quick to complain about racism, sexism, homophobia, but it's not as bad as people make out. If we're going to be… — Kemi Badenoch Copy Share Image
In the grand scheme of things, choosing your love for somebody over the petty reasons you don't talk to someone is a… — JP Saxe Copy Share Image
Nobody went out to pasture, and a lot of people are doing their best work. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Sting are… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I am aware that the battle I am fighting is a petty one, but I am also aware that in order to… — James Frey Copy Share Image
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
To just burn out, to give up just because things don't go your way, to assume that there is no God, no… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who… — A. Powell Davies Copy Share Image
Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
As leaders, we need to rise above petty politics and lead, rather than follow, the various interests and pressure groups in our… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
I feel like most people aren't either/or, they're both/and. You're both magnanimous and petty. You're both kind and cruel. You're never just… — Greta Gerwig 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
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