Quotes About Petty

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

Mma Ramotswe was right: evil repaid with retribution, with punishment, had achieved half its goal; evil repaid with kindness was shown to be what it really was, a small, petty thing, not something frightening at all, but something pitiable, a paltry affair.

Does it matter? Think of our petty concerns and then look up at the night sky, at the stars in the firmament, and think: do any of our petty little concerns really make one jot of difference? Do they mean anything in the context of this great spinning universe—if universes spin, which I am not at all sure they do…

But in essence, our smallness, our irrelevance in the cosmic context, should make us less petty, more accepting, less attached to small and ultimately meaningless things.

Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.

The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.'

Perhaps men are a trick Sa played on this world. 'All other things I shall make vast and beautiful and true to themselves,' perhaps he said. 'Men alone shall be capable of being petty and vicious and self-destructive. And for my cruelest trick of all, I shall put among them men capable of seeing these things in themselves.' Do you suppose that is what Sa did?

In these our degenerate times, men bent on nothing but vainglory and personal gain – hollow, bombastic men for whom nothing is off-limits if it advances their petty cause – will claim to be great leaders

In democratic society each citizen is habitually busy with the contemplation of a very petty object, which is himself.

A petty gesture, perhaps, but the weak must thrive on small revenges.

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

De minimis non curat lex [The law is not concerned with trifles].

Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better.

Qui le passioni più meschine, le più miserevoli, si mostrano senza veli.

Don't waste effort on a thing that ends in a petty triumph unless you are happy with a life of petty success

One of my major shortcomings - I'm vindictive. I don't know why that is. Even in petty things in my life I tend to strike back. It's a lot more pleasurable a sensation than feeling threatened.

Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?

An intelligent person believes in ignoring the petty mistakes of people, but foolish people leave no chance in ignoring the right suggestions of a sensible person

Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.

I'm sure there are better people out there who don't hold grudges. People who can rise above the petty hurts and forgive and forget when they've been slighted or angered. I'm not one of them.

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.

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.

The worst things, however, are the petty thoughts. Verily, better to have done evilly than to have thought pettily!