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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it.
Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.
There would be very little to dislike in other people if we refused to bring to them all of our own judgements and petty grievances.
Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.
When you see a Bruce Springsteen or Tom Petty or Jackson Browne show, the impression you get is that you'd love to have a beer with them. That's the image they project.
What I find curious is that I ever became a writer at all. I grew up in the South Bronx, the land of poverty and petty hoodlums.
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 home that lies before it.
The road to some of the darkest moments of history have been paved with the rants of petty demagogues against ethnic minorities for centuries.
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.
The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.
There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.
I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.
As leaders, we need to rise above petty politics and lead, rather than follow, the various interests and pressure groups in our respective countries.
I have two little boys, and I want them to feel like this is the nation that I know. That this is the nation that isn't petty.
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.
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.
Never get into the petty habit of measuring yourself worth against other people's net worth.
A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction.
You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him
The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
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.
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
Lindsey Graham can't lead us in any direction because he traded his moral compass for petty political gain.
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'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.
Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road.
When you can't see someone all day long, the only thing you have to evaluate is the work. A lot of the petty evaluation stats just melt away.
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.'
This is a dream come true to race for 'The King' Richard Petty Motorsports, the iconic No. 43 and for all the fans and partners that have and continue to support this team.
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.
Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.
Very few worries can stand against the influence of a good long walk ... How many petty annoyances have I thus walked away!
Fight only in direst need
Not for lust or petty greed
Honor those that do give birth
Respect them well for their full worth
In books and movies infidelity always looks so compelling, so right. Here are people who defy petty convention and are rewarded with only the tastiest bits of human experience.
Cultivated people foster what is good in others,
not what is bad.
Petty people do the opposite.
Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty.
If the world's nations can set aside their petty bickering over religion, politics, and territory, certainly I can 'get that Olympic Spirit' and rise above my prejudices.
Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down
No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the petty decrees of social bureaucracy.
There is my favorite quote that I ever heard from her [Lori Petty],... 'Things can happen to you, but they don't have to happen to your soul.'
Making dance music is a spiritual thing. It's about being completely absorbed by rhythm and vibration, so much so that the petty stuff of life stops mattering.
This is payback, isn't it?" Jim glared at me. "Don't be ridiculous," I told him. "As the Consort of the Pack, I'm far above petty revenge.
A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.
There is more to life than saas bahu issues with women being portrayed as petty characters and their own worst enemies.
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 at all, for a lark.
The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.
I've grown up around that sort of petty crime, getting into trouble and trying to get out of it. What's funny is my dad was an inspector in the police, so I was known as the grass.
It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.
Do not quarrel ... with your lot in life. Do not complain of its never-ceasing cares, its petty environment, the vexations you have to stand, the small and sordid souls you have to live and work with.
It's not that I was not getting offers but I don't want to do petty and insignificant roles again and again.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but neither does one. Revenge may seem petty by day, but on some nights she becomes Justice.
Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh- I really think that requires spirit!
The supposedly petty sexual harassment that so many women have to endure, from Hollywood studios to the factory floor at Ford, is a national outrage that needs to end. Period.
Too often, we see wedge politics and petty rhetoric used to belittle adversaries and inflame partisan divisions.
The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one’s own character.
Amazon is famously run by studying and responding to its own data; yet when it comes to promotions, decisions are often subjective and guided by human emotions and petty political dynamics.
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?
Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions.
