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Tag Name "Petty" (225)

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Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
Michel de Montaigne
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Petty things don't bother me as much as they used to.
Rebecca Lobo
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This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes.
Adriana Trigiani
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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.
Jacques Rigaut
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It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.
Francis Bacon
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I'd always been a fan growing up, and in high school, I was really into Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen.
Bryan Hayes
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Men spend their life down here in the worship of petty (or mean) interests and the search of perishable things, and with that (et avec cela, Fr.) they pretend to perpetuate for all eternity their self (moi, Fr.) so hardly worthy (digne, Fr.) of it.
African Spir
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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.
James Otis
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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.
Frank Stella
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The singular man is singular in comparison to other men, but a companion of Heaven. So it is said, the petty man of Heaven is a gentleman among men the gentleman among men is the petty man of Heaven.
Burton Watson
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
Agnes Repplier
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It was about the compelling need to make countries get along to prevent war, in contrast with the totally petty and selfish bullshit that drives the individuals who are supposedly in charge of these countries. It's hard to believe that these self-centered people have nuclear weapons that they can fire at any moment.
Jay Roach
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It was so strange, coming from Nashville, Tennessee, where I was playing to 15 people, to going to London and playing in this crowded little dive pub. I know Tom Petty had a similar thing - I realize, on a lot larger scale.
Caitlin Rose
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Every small wrong, every minor act of cruelty, every act of petty bullying was symbolic of a greater wrong. And if we ignored these small things, then did it not blunt our outrage over the larger wrongs?
Alexander McCall Smith
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Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.
Jean de la Bruyere
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For Star Trek proves, as faulty as individual episodes could be, is that the much-maligned common man and common woman has an enormous hunger for brotherhood. They are ready for the twenty-third century now, and they are light-years ahead of their petty governments and their visionless leaders.
Gene Roddenberry
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Sisters are the worst. And they are the best. A sister can be awful and complicated and loving and protective and petty and competitive, and when you die she is the person you want beside you holding your hand. Somebody's gotta organize the potluck after the service and you know your husband's not gonna be up to the job.
Cathy Lamb
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I often think about how, if we were all placed in an apocalyptic situation, you'd realize quickly how stupid, petty things just don't matter anymore. Who you love is who you love, and it doesn't matter. Survival is your primary focus.
Alycia Debnam Carey
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There is my favorite quote that I ever heard from her [Lori Petty],... 'Things can happen to you, but they don't have to happen to your soul.'
Jennifer Lawrence
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Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.
George Eliot
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The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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I'm a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, they're my two favorites.
Andrew Shue
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I’d love to have an opportunity to tie the greats in Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Sr.
Jimmie Johnson
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