Quotes About Petty

For revenge is always the delight of a mean spirit, of a weak and petty mind! You may immediately draw proof of this—that no one rejoices more in revenge than a woman.

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one enormous and innermost perversion, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are too venomous, too underhand, too underground and too petty—I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind.

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.

Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously.

Even the littlest minds, sunk in petty pride of self, are susceptible to chords struck on the cosmic scale.

The pettiest and slightest nuisances are the most acute; and as small letters hurt and tire the eyes most, so do trifling matters sting us most.

In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty.

You imply a higher value to a life because of a young age. The line, my dear, across which the value of life becomes petty. Where is the line? But a child- He held up a cautionary finger. Do not think to play on my emotions by plying me with the value of the life of a child, as if a higher value can be placed on life because of age. When is a life worth less? Where is the line? At what age? Who decides? All life is of value. Dead is dead, no matter the age.

The Austrian Empress' entourage was so vast, with everyone watching everyone else, so many petty jealousies raged within this small society on Madeira, which was completely cut off from the outside world, that not even the slightest emotion could go unrecognized.

This is payback, isn't it? Jim glared at me. Don't be ridiculous, I told him. As the Consort of the Pack, I'm far above petty revenge.

I heard from my cat's lawyer today; my cat wants $12,000 a week for Tender Vittles.

Their lips were too thin to ask forgiveness, and their minds too mean to understand love.

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

Little things please little minds.

The fights are so vicious because the stakes are so small." Everybody here has got here by intense competition, moderated by character assassination.

underline the notion that the countryside was becoming ever more infected by mankind's petty but brutal desires.

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

Caldenia smiled. A Quillonian chef, my dear you shouldn't have. Well you should have months ago, but one mustn't be petty. Finally. I shall be dining in a style to which I am suited. Fantastic. Does he have moral scruples I am reasonably sure this summit will result in at least one murder, and I have never tasted an otrokar.

That's why the Periphery is revolting; that's why communications are breaking down; that's why petty wars are becoming eternal; that's why whole systems are losing nuclear power and going back to barbarous techniques of chemical power.

They seem to be excited about something terribly unimportant

But Sykora was the same as always: bureaucratic and managerial. The undisputed master of petty projects.

maybe a damned good night's sleep will bring me back to a gentle sanity. But at the moment, I look about this room and, like myself, it's all in disarray: things fallen out of place, cluttered, jumbled, lost, knocked over and I can't put it straight, don't want to. Perhaps living through these petty days will get us ready for the dangerous ones.

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.

I'm trying to get at something a little transcendent between humans. But at the same time, there's all that baggage: What's beautiful about humans is what's balanced by what's kind of ugly and petty and depressing.