Petty Quotes

336 Petty quotes by 271 unique authors

He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger; its petty, obliterating rage. But now he'd become detached. He regarded his body with a… — Louise Erdrich
When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the… — Epictetus
Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day… — Swami Vivekananda
Have a policy of pre-emptive forgiveness. Refuse to get offended by petty things. Make a decision early on to cut the other person some slack… — Gaelen Foley
Never fear being a petty fool it means you ain't dying — Timothy Spall
Do no evilness because it is a small one; do not leave a small deed undone because it is just a petty one. — Liu Bei
I believe that they were brave people. One should be of courageous character to do what they had done, not only this, one should be… — Vladimir Semichastny
Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us; from all the petty vexations that meet us; from the sin-promptings that assail us; from the… — Frances Sargent Osgood
As for the petty little world of journalism, the media demonstrates how it, more than anyone, is careful to traffic only in authorized ideas and… — Robert Faurisson
The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to… — Xunzi
Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism - the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big Landlord class and the reactionary section… — Mao Zedong
The Hindu marriage may be described as the union of two families. In this union, there is no room for petty ambitions and personal ego-trips.… — Dada Vaswani
A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself… — Bertrand Russell
At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a… — John Carmack
I can't convince myself that it does much good to try to challenge the everyday political delusions and dementias of Americans at large. Their contained… — Kenny Smith
I’d love to have an opportunity to tie the greats in Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Sr. — Jimmie Johnson
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
Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses. — Jean de la Bruyere
Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible? Did we not hear The flutter… — Adelaide Anne Procter
Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less… — W. Somerset Maugham
The fact of the matter is that poor men do not often steal, and when they do, it is petty theft, something to eat or… — Louis L'Amour
The soul, cramped among the petty vexations of Earth, needs to keep its windows constantly open to the invigorating air of large and free ideas:… — Lucy Larcom
The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less… — Norman Mailer

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