Paltry Quotes

55 Paltry quotes by 49 unique authors

So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer of his hire.… — Dorothy Day
Today remind yourself that nothing is too good to be true. Your great hopes can be realized. Your most wonderful dreams can come true. All… — Norman Vincent Peale
The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-. — Emily Dickinson
Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite… — P.J. O'Rourke
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion… — Edgar Allan Poe
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of… — Walter Scott
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few. — John Updike
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for… — William Butler Yeats
One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like… — Soren Kierkegaard
Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by the academic specialists.… — Wendell Berry
Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than… — Kurt Vonnegut
we must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they may be; the… — Angela Carter
How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and… — Vladimir Nabokov
American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant. — H. L. Mencken
What twisted people we are. How simple we seem, or at least pretend to be in front of others, and how twisted we are deep… — Roberto Bolano
Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if… — Carl Sagan
I believe in God. Maybe not the Catholic God or even the Christian one because I have a hard time seeing any God as elitist.… — Dennis Lehane
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Haven't you noticed that we women daydream infinitely less than you men? We can't anticipate pleasure in our imagination or keep suffering out our lives… — Jens Peter Jacobsen
These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed… — Bram Stoker
If you want to be a slave in life, then continue going around asking others to do for you. They will oblige, but you will… — Terry Goodkind
[Speaking to a group of wealthy New Yorkers] A million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with nothing but the… — Jack London
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick — William Butler Yeats
The real crisis of worship today is not that the preaching is paltry or that it's too drafty in church. It is that people have… — R C Sproul
Instead of destroying an area for a paltry amount of oil, we should be increasing fuel standards for automobiles and focusing our efforts on biofuels… — Raul Grijalva

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