Quotes About Petty

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

Open duh computer." Germans ought to farm out all positions of petty authority. The accent remained too full of implication.

But if you did, if you had that kind of curiosity, if you had an innate interest in the welfare of your fellow human beings, and if you went through that door, a strange thing happened: you left your petty troubles on the threshold. It could be addictive.

Perhaps living in that hope now will make us act less petty on this side of heaven.

I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.

Don't make much ado about nothing.

The wickedness was never there - not in the sense it was supposed to be. No fantastic trafficking with the Devil, no black and evil splendour. Just parlour tricks done for money - and human life of no account. That's real wickedness. Nothing grand or big - just petty and contemptible.

For a long time, I've loved the kind of characters who are boastful yet petty. I was originally a gag manga artist, after all.

To be spiritual means you have cosmic ambitions. You want to know not just the whole creation but the Creator and the source of creation as well. To be material means you have petty ambitions of owning a house - or 10 houses - or a whole apartment building.

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

Jealousy is a human trait, cultivated by petty people who will never be what they want to be, or will never have what they want to have.

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.

Never underestimate the human capacity for stupid, illogical, and petty behaviour.

And on its part, German Socialism recognized more and more its own calling as the bombastic representative of the petty bourgeois philistine. It proclaimed the German nation to be the model nation, and the German petty philistine to be the typical man. To every villainous meanness of this model man it gave a hidden, higher, socialistic interpretation, the exact contrary of its real character.

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

How great in number are the little minded men

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

How wrong and petty any life is.

The one good thing about 'chaos' is that you are so busy dealing with lifes shit, you have no time to think about how petty these'Life Changing Issues' are.

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

Class divisions as clear as those between Harrington and myself always bring out my best, or at least my most petty.

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.

inspired him to bear witness to a world which was bleeding with injustice and intolerance and petty corruption.

Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor His infinite perfections as much as our smallest wants.