Quotes of: Pettiness Keyword

I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.

Benmont Tench

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

John Mellencamp

[...] but just as formerly these pursuits and ideas had seemed petty and insignificant in comparison with the darkness that overshadowed all existence, so now they seemed as petty and insignificant in comparison with the brilliant sunshine in which t...

Anna Karenina

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

Lillian Hellman

Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.

Ann Landers

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

Walter Bagehot

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

Emile M. Cioran

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

Xun Zi

I'm a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, they're my two favorites.

Andrew Shue

Fear of shadows was petty. Real fears lived outside the door.

Itsy's Ugly

That’s literally one of those things where if I tell you I have to kill you. A witch’s wand is a powerful tool and could be disastrous if it fell into the wrong hands.

Shifting Shadows

The petty man wants to use God for himself; the ambitious man wants God to use him for God.

Criss Jami

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Jean Racine

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

Walter Annenberg

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.

Nick Carter

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

Anton Chekhov

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty face from day to day.

William Shakespeare

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

Stories

Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind.

Lee Radziwill

I know the different ways that I have lost. I think that's beneficial to me because I know how I got in those situations in the past, and I know how to avoid those situations.

Michelle Waterson

I think standing and fighting and working alongside all of these people that raise their right hand and serve their nation... really wipes away the distractions of some of the petty things we think are important at home.

Pete Hegseth