Petty Quotes

By removing that which is petty and self-seeking, we bring forth all that is glorious and mindful of the whole.

It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle.

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 world-sirens that lure us to ill

I had come out of a church that was filled with petty arguments and hatred. I just wanted to meet with some friends and worship with them.

To just burn out, to give up just because things don't go your way, to assume that there is no God, no infinite light - I think that's pretty petty, personally.

If you have only been around people who use power in cruel and petty ways, then when you hear the very word, you may have a negative reaction.

That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty.

I mean, you could have said Elvis Presley was new wave when it happened. I heard Willy DeVille and Tom Petty and to me they were new wave really because they were new.

Hmm. Petty? Yes. Ineffectual? Yes. Infuriating and off-putting? Yes. Counterproductive? Yes. It's got to be a product of the French Foreign Ministry.

The God I believe in is not so fragile that you hurt Him by being angry at him, or so petty that He will hold it against you for being upset with Him.

The dreamed outcome of launching a psychic attack can make you feel small and petty. I think for that reason I'm going to refrain from launching any.

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.

It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings

But they were as different as fire and ice. Robert Kennedy thought Eugene McCarthy was pompous, petty, and venal. McCarthy thought Kennedy was a spoiled, unintelligent demagogue.

The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance.

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.

If you're having a bad day already and everybody is just asking you petty questions, it drives people to the edge, or something really small will have a really large effect.

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray.

Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind.

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.

You can't be stylish and petty at the same time.

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.

In a lot of ways, I'm seeking some sort of peace of mind for myself. I'm a fairly emotionally petty, resentful guy who has an inflated sense of himself, and I needed to take that down a notch.

My secrets are petty but humiliating.

They all do the same things. They may think their sins are original, but for the most part they are petty and repetitive.

The grand schemes of liberation, however indistinct and amorphous, can quickly be compromised, consumed by petty disputes and local hatreds.

Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.

Petty things don't bother me as much as they used to.

The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized.

You've got a lot to look forward to in Heaven. Compared to what's in store for you in Heaven, your current pain and problems are petty.

If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.

The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence.

She wasn't speaking to me - in the juvenile, petty sense of the phrase.

We need to ascend beyond our own petty Resistance, our own negative self-judgment and self-sabotage, our own "I'm not worthy" mind-set.

Guilt is petty; I am above guilt.

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 in human life?

Never fear being a petty fool it means you ain't dying

There is two types of Larceny, Petty and Grand. They are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the law, but judges always put a little extra on you for Petty, which is kind of a fine for stupidness.

Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil.

Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

The louder the dogs bark the less a lion feels threatened.

Bit by bit, whatever you see to be petty becomes plenty.

Being petty allows you to make mountains out of molehills.

I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty.

I pity the man who praises God only when things go his way.

Let your words be petty and actions plenty!

There is a sky full of stars aplenty, and all you can babble about is a cold, little rock we call the moon. This is how it is with petty problems that exist too close to us.

Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.