Quotes About Petty

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

True evil is always petty and often incompetent.

Killing without reason or gain was a petty pleasure of sadistic fools.

I've seen people get robbed, seen people get shot with my own eyes, for pointless petty crimes.

Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason. Without a purpose, life is trivial, petty, and pointless.

A las mentes obtusas solo se les ocurren mezquindades».

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

How wrong and petty any life is.

Word For The Day PICAYUNE (PIK uh yoon') adj. Trivial or petty, small or small-minded.

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.

From the start, therefore, American culture seemed to the majority of émigrés both simplistic and crude: it corresponded to the tastes of the petty bourgeoisie and not those of an intellectual elite, and, scarcely concerned with either political awareness or formal experimentation, it sought rather to seduce, distract, arouse laughter or tears.3

I feel like most movies about female friends derive their conflict from an extension of the high school movie rivalries, or there's some petty grievance: a competition over a guy or a wedding date or something. And I don't relate to any of that.

Too often, we see wedge politics and petty rhetoric used to belittle adversaries and inflame partisan divisions.

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

The triviality of the current scene usually put her off, but now she supposed that the politics of the moment always looked petty and stupid; only later did it take on the look of respectable statecraft, of immutable History.

he was a sort of dully furious Soviet bureaucrat, a petty man used to giving orders and being obeyed.

On second thought, there was no gift big enough for Mike. Maybe a house. Maybe buy Jackson's duplex from Jackson and just give it, carte blanche, to Mike. These were hard truths—terrible, painful truths. From Ellery they'd sound petty and self-serving.

Clever of me to become a critic. We critics scrutinize and show off to a higher end. For a greater good. Our manners, our tastes, our declarations are welcomed. Superior for life. Except when we're not. Except when we're dismissed or denounced as envious or petty, as derivatives and dependents by nature. Second class for life.

The Band was always famous for its retirements we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again.

When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others.

This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes.

Petty crimes don't have to have long sentences. Come on, man, you know damned well that I got more time than most. Most of the cons in there are way long on their time. State prison, I would have done a month or two. Private prison, they need to find a way to keep you. It's a business, Detective. Ain't nothin' to do with corrections. You already figured all this out.

There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.

Revenge often looks petty, but I have come to respect the depth of hurt it conceals.