Quotes of: Petty Keyword

We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.

Saint Ignatius

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Aesop

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

Denis Diderot

To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.

Jeff Goldblum

My life is full of drama, and I don't have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.

Adele

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

Imelda Marcos

...and here is a bed of roses for the great king now beyond us and our petty little world.

Life

Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.

Xun Zi

Our natural rights come from an authority beyond the petty rule of man.

Voice of Reason

At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.

John Carmack

How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

Middlemarch

If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.

Sammy Hagar

Fee-fi-fo-fum, you better run and hide I smell the blood of a petty little coward

Set it off

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

Theophrastus

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

W. Somerset Maugham

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

Martin Heidegger

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.

Jack Adams

Disclosing one's "deep, dark secrets" makes them no less deep or dark or secret than any other petty flaw.

Alan de Jager

The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way.

Culture and Value

Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.

Engleby