Petty Quotes

336 Petty quotes by 271 unique authors

It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to… — Jean Webster
Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him.… — John Steinbeck
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to… — David Foster Wallace
...maybe a damned good night's sleep will bring me back to a gentle sanity. But at the moment, I look about this room and, like… — Charles Bukowski
I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. It forgets the great way… — Sophie Scholl
There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason… — Jacques Rigaut
...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was.… — Anton Chekhov
I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call him a character… — Philip Pullman
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of… — Howard Zinn
I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to temp us, to make it the more difficult for… — Tom Robbins
At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about 'petty personal problems' was to recognize that nothing… — Doris Lessing
Isabelle and Sebastian? Hardly. Sebastian’s a nice guy – Isabelle only likes dating thoroughly inappropriate boys our parents will hate. Mundanes, Downworlders, petty crooks…” “Thanks,”… — Cassandra Clare
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out -… — Robert W. Service
Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. — Richard M. Nixon
I have found it very important in my own life to try to let go of my wishes and instead to live in hope. I… — Henri Nouwen
The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could… — Tom Robbins
Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and… — Charles Robert Maturin
Jealousy can’t sour someone to this extreme, can it? (Aiden) It can and it does. Believe me. I’ve seen a lot worse than this in… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Are you mad? (Artemis) Yes, I am. Mad at this world where we are nothing to the gods. Mad at the Fates who put us… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
People destroy beauty when they find it. (Acheron) How so? (Artemis) By nature, people are petty and jealous. They envy what they lack and because… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
A clever enemy would kiss my hand, then stab at my back while I was distracted. (Stryker) A coward’s action. Truly. Don’t insult either one… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Why are you doing this? (Rafael) Because life’s too short to spend it fighting when you could be holding the one you love. And love’s… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him… — Nikolai Gogol
Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real… — Victor Hugo

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