Quotes About Petty

as though the Universe itself were under an obligation to bother itself about them, for it never gets tired of wrapping up God Himself in the petty misery in which its troubles are involved. And

For today the petty people have become lord and master: they all preach submission and acquiescence and prudence and diligence and consideration and the long et cetera of petty virtues.

I've never been in a 'Twitter fight,' though I've witnessed my fair share. I do enjoy vigorous and informed debate, but the benefit is lost when the exchange becomes a series of petty ad hominem attacks. I don't see much value in it.

there are enduring standards superior to our petty private stock of rationality.

Hayat sahiden ya?anmaya de?meyecek kadar küçüklükler ve baya??l?klarla dolu!

Asia and Europe are corners in the Universe; every sea, a drop in the Universe; Mount Athos, a clod of earth in the Universe; every instant of time, a pin-prick of eternity. All things are petty, easily changed, vanishing away. All things come from that other world, starting from that common governing principle, or else are secondary consequences of it.

I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.

Anyone who's so petty and pedantic at the age of fifty-four was born that way and is never going to change.

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?

I am but a petty godling, it's true, but I am the god of the dark depths of passion, the sea that draws and gives back life. Tell you don't crave the attention.

Petty vengeance had been well within his father's capabilities, and using children to control their parents was an established family technique.

Without certain stress, the true asana is not experienced, and the mind will remain in its limitations and will not move beyond its existing frontiers. This limited state of mind can be described as the petty, small mind.

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

When you're a federal agent you don't get to arrest people for like $5.00 petty crimes or anything like that, they'll throw you right out of there.

I get cranky real easily. So the honor of it and the wonder of it all and everything has a hard time overcoming the petty annoyances; I mean, that's simply the reality of being alive, I guess.

It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.

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.

God has enough to think about," people often say, as though we shouldn't bother Him with our petty problems. But there is no spot in the universe that isn't filled, infused, permeated, and lifted up by the divine. Your Creator can't be left out, except in your thinking. And wherever He is left out in your thinking, He can't help you.

they're weak, petty, so apathetic about this gift of life as if it were all a mere Pepsi commercial.

The London criminal is certainly a dull fellow. Look out of this window, Watson. See how the figures loom up, are dimly seen, and then blend once more into the cloudbank. The thief or the murderer could roam London on such a day as the tiger does the jungle, unseen until he pounces, and then evident only to his victim. There have been numerous petty thefts. This great and sombre stage is set for something more worthy than that. It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

That hurts my pride, Watson. It is a petty feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal matter with me now...

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

must confess the sin of envy. I have secretly envied those who enjoyed a success greater than mine or received more recognition. I've thought to myself, and even to God, Why not me? Didn't I work as hard or have as much talent? and so on. I know that is petty, but it is part of my fallen condition.

A senior BBC music programmer smarmed up to me and took this opportunity to remind me of my diminished status in his petty universe, "Of course, you'd have had a lot more hits if you'd just taken out all the sevenths and minor chords." I suppose I would have had even more, if I'd only taken out all of the music entirely and most of the words, too.