Quotes About Pettiness

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

In the presence of greatness, pettiness disappears. In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails.

The pettiest will be generous And the most craven will be brave: Nothing improves a reputation Like confinement to a grave.

Prejudice is nothing but ignorance, jealousy, pettiness"—she

Let me tell you," the nun went on, "everyone is equal under God! Prejudice is nothing but ignorance, jealousy, pettiness"—she shook the hose with each word, sending undulating arcs of water into the flower beds—"and intolerance is responsible for all the violence! It's drilled into children from the beginning.

I remember I once told him: 'Women's minds are so petty, so crooked!' 'Like the feet of Chinese women,' he replied. 'Has not the pressure of society cramped them into pettiness and crookedness? They are but pawns of the fate which gambles with them. What responsibility have they of their own?

I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.

It is one of the most detestable habits of a Liliputian mind to credit other people with its own malignant pettiness.

Die Götter der Mythen handelten mit einem Maß an Kleinlichkeit, Missgunst und oberflächlicher Moral, das selbst verglichen mit den verkommenen moralischen Maßstäben unserer eigenen Kultur in keinem Verhältnis zu der Macht steht, die sie ausübten.

I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the partisanship, the gridlock, the pettiness, and the corruption.

It is always the little things that make you sore.

Meetings were an important means of Communist control. They left people no free time, and eliminated the private sphere. The pettiness which dominated them was justified on the grounds that prying into personal details was a way of ensuring thorough soul-cleansing. In fact, pettiness was a fundamental characteristic of a revolution in which intrusiveness and ignorance were celebrated, and envy was incorporated into the system of control.

Is all anger sin? No, but some of it is. Even God Himself has righteous anger against sin, injustice, rebellion and pettiness.

I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity.

Men who pride themselves on being shrewd in discovering the weak points, the vanity, the dishonesty, immorality, intrigue, and pettiness of others think they understand character. They know only a part of character. They know only the depths to which some men may sink; they know not the heights to which some men may rise.

If we had the true and complete history of one man - which would be the history of his head - we would sign the warrants and end ourselves forever, not because of the wickedness we would find within that man, no, but because of the meagerness of feeling, the miniaturization of meaning, the pettiness of ambition, the vulgarities, the vanities, the diminution of intelligence, the endless trivia we'd encounter, the ever present dust.

soulsThat we might break these molds And free our restless souls Start to believe That we can rise above Our pettiness and love Like we ain't loved before Free on this earth As the surf that rolls And crashes on the shore And hey now don't run and hide Your little heart away If it's gone We'll sure never find it Pining for lost innocence Tantalisingly I saw Our shadows moving through the door Traces from a different time When I was yours and you were truly mine All mine

I enjoy my pettiness with a dose of wit.

That's great. Except for the fact that it's completely unimportant.

I tend to see possession most often in the little things, Damien: in the senseless, petty spites and misunderstandings; the cruel and cutting word that leaps unbidden to the tongue between friends. Between lovers. Between husbands and wives. Enough of these and we have no need of Satan to manage our wars; these we manage for ourselves … for ourselves.

It wasn't a petty squabble. It was a big squabble, in which pettiness played no small part.

Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.

Many a time have I wondered at the unworthy ways of Fate, at the pettiness of the pleasure it takes in frustrating plans that are small and innocent, at its entire want of dignity, at its singular spitefulness, at the resemblance of its manners to those of an evilly-disposed kitchen-maid....