Quotes About Petty

The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe.

Revenge,' he said softly, 'is the act of a despicable and petty character. Which is no doubt why I've always enjoyed it so much.

I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. It forgets the great way home that lies before it.

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

Irenée Calfat was a potter. She took hunks of clay and turned them into exquisite works. She'd pioneered a new way to glaze her works and was now sought out by potters worldwide. Of course, after they'd made the pilgrimage to Irenée Calfat's studio in St Rémy and spent five minutes with the Goddess of Mud, they knew they'd made a mistake. She was one of the most self absorbed and petty people on the face of this earth

Isn't that a little Old Testament for a nun?" "Ex-nun. And let me tell you, that serenity crap from The Sound of Music? Bullshit. Inside the cloister, the sisters are just as petty as people on the outside. There are some you love and some you hate. I did my share of spitting in the Holy Water font before another nun used it. It was totally worth the twenty rosaries I said for penance.

An attitude that really works against people is the desire for equality that feeds petty jealousy. For

His voice had the petty, triumphant air of someone who enjoys catching the small and meaningless mistakes of others.

There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark.

The motivations for human action were depressingly trivial.

Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.

Being ignored is so very irritating. I will be petty and blow your phone up, don't play with me!

There aren't a lot of people who can carry off petty," I said. "Yet somehow you do.

Journalists, bless our black little hearts, are petty and vindictive and love to flog our hallowed journalism ethics whenever there's some momentary advantage and/or amusement value in doing so.

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

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

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

Seems what all lands do share are gods so petty and jealous that they would rather destroy all the worlds than have one that moves on without them.

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