A collection of 566 inspiring quotes about petty from various authors and sources.
Brezhnev had Sakharov, Yeltsin had Kovalev. We are becoming petty.
We\'re quick to complain about racism, sexism, homophobia, but it\'s not as bad as people make out. If we\'re going to be more cohesive, we have to be more relaxed about petty incidents and not find insult where none exists.
I have never in my life seen a more petty, childish, bitter, soon-to-be ex-president of the United States. Barack Obama is in fact participating in this effort to undermine the Trump transition, the Trump election, and the Trump presidency. And it\'s unprecedented in U.S. history. Ex-presidents have never engaged in the kind of behavior Obama is engaging in.
For a real New India to arise, all petty and small things must be given up. To be redeemed, all Indians must offer to sacrifice not only their good things, but all those evil things they cling to blindly - their hates and their divisions, their pride in what they should be thoroughly ashamed of, their quarrels and misunderstandings.
There\'s no room for petty grievances in politics.
We have opted for petty determinisms - childhood trauma, genetic inheritance, social conditioning, etc. - that have made us comparatively passive. We seem to prefer to find excuses - which are really nothing more than the embrace of determinism, a sort of Stockholm syndrome relative to whatever we can claim as limitation. I am fascinated by the more enabling self-understanding. It has helped me to find my way out of the cloying comforts that are offered by prevalent psychological models.
As leaders, we need to rise above petty politics and lead, rather than follow, the various interests and pressure groups in our respective countries.
The most disgusting trait in men is pettiness. A petty man is petty in everything. The main quality of a man, from my point of view, is generosity. A man\'s strength is not in how much he can take, but in how much he can give.
When you\'re a federal agent you don\'t get to arrest people for like $5.00 petty crimes or anything like that, they\'ll throw you right out of there.
We began to pay attention to things that were previously ignored. Aggressive begging, glass cleaner, petty drug trafficking, prostitution, graffiti - all those things that drove [the city] into decline.
It is impossible to blame someone else\'s greed without showing your own.
Now I want you to pack it with all the stuff that you have in your life. You start with the little things, the things on shelves and in drawers, the knickknacks, the collectibles. Feel the weight as that adds up. Up in the Air (2009)
Be inattentive<br />and while petty<br />but you can be attentive<br />and not at all petty.
I'm a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, they're my two favorites.
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, culture. It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing art to defend their collapsing culture.
We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
There are petty-minded people who cannot endure to be reminded of their ignorance because, since they are usually quite blind to all things, quite foolish, and quite ignorant, they never question anything, and are persuaded that they see clearly what in fact they never see at all, save through the darkness of their own dispositions.
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.
Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
Come! Let us lay a lance in rest,<br />And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!<br />For who would live so petty and unblest<br />That dare not tilt at something ere he die;<br />Rather than, screened by safe majority,<br />Preserve his little life to little end,<br />And never raise a rebel cry!
On the music side, I'm a cross between maybe that Texas songwriter and that Tom Petty feel.
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: and what thought is so grand as that of an ever-present God, in whom all that is vital in humanity breathes and grows?
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 perhaps an item of clothing to keep them from the cold. Thieves are usually those who have something and want more.
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 than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
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
Anyway, when I finished the book, I handed it in, didn't want to read it again, but when it finally was in print I felt like OK, I have to read this. And yeah, I thought God, this is petty, this is silly, too emotional, too raw...and maybe it was then, but now it all seems that it's so much better because all the stuff that felt petty and silly now seems more relevant because Andy was so important.
Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.