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When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine, his scowl a… — Rachel Vincent
What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end.… — Rohinton Mistry
How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16) — Confucius
Hindu fundamentalism is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals; there is no such thing as a Hindu heresy. How dare… — Shashi Tharoor
But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get a… — Jay Asher
I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever. — Mark Twain
Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and… — Anais Nin
You are such a chicken. Bock. Bock. Bock." He refused to allow her very bad chicken impression to ruffle his feathers. He was above petty… — Christine Feehan
I don’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like — Adele
How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts? — George Eliot
Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty. — Lillian Hellman
It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace… — Chuck Palahniuk
I’d always been afraid of sick people, and so had my mother. It wasn’t that we feared catching their brain aneurysm or accidentally ripping out… — David Sedaris
I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed… — John Fowles
This is payback, isn't it?" Jim glared at me. "Don't be ridiculous," I told him. "As the Consort of the Pack, I'm far above petty… — Ilona Andrews
A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances. — Lisa Kleypas
In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will, or… — Christopher Hitchens
One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed… — Nick Hornby
Only in love can I find you, my God. In love the gates of my soul spring open, allowing me to breathe a new air… — Karl Rahner
Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh-… — Jean Webster
I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was… — Anne Frank
They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pitying, all of which are indications… — James Allen
I am aware that the battle I am fighting is a petty one, but I am also aware that in order to win that which… — James Frey

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