Top 577 Petty Quotes & Sayings

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

Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.

Radio used to be dominated by Tom Petty and artists like that. If Tom Petty came out today, he'd be played on country radio - all that stuff would. I think the genre has opened itself up to more styles of country, and I think that's a good thing.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

I don't really sweat the petty things.

People feel very ashamed to admit that they have in-law problems. They think it's something petty. But it's not petty at all. It hits deep emotions.

Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.

I'm an environmentalist, and I don't want you to have a disposable aluminum can. I sure as hell don't want to have a disposable worker and I don't care who you vote for. You've got to have that as a moral position. Otherwise, my concern is, all we are is this petty interest group people who can't say anything back to a petty interest group of white nationalism.

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil.

Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

The singular man is singular in comparison to other men, but a companion of Heaven. So it is said, the petty man of Heaven is a gentleman among men; the gentleman among men is the petty man of Heaven.

Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

The death is unfortunate. It is an accident. It is not police atrocity . It is a small and petty matter.

In a crisis, my family puts aside all its petty differences and hatreds... Because a crisis, is a perfect opportunity to create *new* petty differences and hatreds! My dad's from that era when you lived to 50, your heart exploded and that was that. You know when you cook bacon and you pour the grease into the can? My dad's the can!

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

As long asthe audience or the public perceives you to be sincere in your approach and not petty, they will think it's fair and they will wait for the other person's response. But if they sense it's petty or the slightest bit unfair, they'll turn on you right away.

I've always loved Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and I watched the Petty documentary 'Running Down A Dream'. I was directly influenced, it made me want to go write.

But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

There's so many FM hits that I love. Bob Seger, there's two of his songs that I love. I would probably love more, but I don't sit around listening to Bob Seger records. It's the same thing with Tom Petty; he writes amazing hits, but it's not often that I sit around at home listening to a whole Tom Petty album.

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.

An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims.

My secrets are petty but humiliating.

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

I don’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.

You don't talk to Richard Petty unless he talks to you.

There's no room for petty grievances in politics.

I'm a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, they're my two favorites.

I'm real petty. I remember everything like an elephant.

Beware of those who attribute petty instructions to God.

I used to spend my money on going to Tom Petty concerts.

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

Fill your brain with giant dreams so it has no space for petty pursuits.

I am very competitive - with myself and everybody else. I'm petty, too.

I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

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.

Men are separated by so many petty things.

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

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

Alas! fond child, How are thy thoughts beguil'd To hope for honey from a nest of wasps? Thou may'st as well Go seek for ease in hell, Or sprightly nectar from the mouths of asps. The world's a hive, From whence thou canst derive No good, but what thy soul's vexation brings: But case thou meet Some petty-petty sweet, Each drop is guarded with a thousand stings.

I believe in what Richard Petty Motorsports is doing and their desire to win races.

Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.

When you are actually powerful, you don't need to be petty.

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.

I heard that [Clarkson] said some petty things about someone I care deeply about, so I just made some petty remarks 'cause I'm a petty guy.

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow

My big ambition was to be Richard Petty.

Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.