Petty Quotes

336 Petty quotes by 271 unique authors

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day — William Shakespeare
The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles… — David Foster Wallace
There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and… — David Foster Wallace
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a… — George Santayana
Nothing about character is hereditary. Everyone, regardless of social background, financial status, race, or sex, enters the world with an equal opportunity to become a… — Michael Josephson
I have no use for "men's rights," any more than I have any use for "women's rights," but let us ask: Who was it that… — Robert Stacy McCain
The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men… — Robert H. Jackson
Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums… — Pablo Picasso
When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you… — Robert Greene
The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill our minds. If… — E F Schumacher
All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted… — Vernor Vinge
Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien. — Carl von Clausewitz
It is also an absolute mistake to believe that the State can be anything other than a civitas diaboli if it does not resurrect itself… — Julius Evola
Apartheid â€” both petty and grand â€” is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to… — Steven Biko
I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit. — Norton Juster
For Star Trek proves, as faulty as individual episodes could be, is that the much-maligned common man and common woman has an enormous hunger for… — Gene Roddenberry
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as… — Henry David Thoreau
A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class. — Jack Adams
My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess… — Josephine Hart
The Band was always famous for its retirements we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other… — Rick Danko

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