Best Pettiness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.”

Abuse Greed Machinery Power Of Love Abuse Of Power Pettiness

“I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do now, and I was distressed to find so much vindictiveness in so charming a creature. I did not realize how motley are the qualities that go to make up a human being. Now I am well aware that pettiness and grandeur, malice and charity, hatred and love, can find place side by side in the same human heart.”

Source: The Moon and Sixpence

“I think you are a liar because you think you know what is true. You think you feel what is true. But you do not yet know what you do feel and what you do know. Your desire and do not take; you love and are too afraid to feel your love; you conceal your vanity and pettiness from yourself; you are afraid to look into your soul and see what you are. That iis why i think you are a liar.”

Thinking Knows Feels Looks Soul Desire Love You Vanity Your Soul Liars True You You Think You Know Pettiness

Author:Alison Croggon

“Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.”

“What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? They have never entered into mine, but into yours, we thought--Haven't we all to struggle against life's daily greyness, against pettiness, against mechanical cheerfulness, against suspicion? I struggle by remembering my friends; others I have known by remembering some place--some beloved place or tree--we thought you one of these.”

Ifs Remember Stars Known Struggle Tree Havens Mines Wind My Friends Beloved Daily Life Suspicion Sunrise Cheerfulness Pettiness Howards End

Book:Howard's End

Source: Howard's End

“One of the gifts our planet gave us is to love completely. Without jealousy or insecurity or fear. Without pettiness. Without anger.”

Planets Anger Insecurity Our Planet Pettiness

Author:Pittacus Lore

“I enjoy my pettiness with a dose of wit.”

Enjoy Wit Dose Pettiness

Book:The Whiskey Rebels: A Novel

Source: The Whiskey Rebels: A Novel

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

Feels Feelings Alive Inexplicable Pettiness

Book:Engleby: A Novel

Source: Engleby: A Novel

“We all have demons inside us, Nick. The Tsalagi have an old saying—every heart holds two wolves. One is the white wolf, who is made up of love, kindness, respect, decency, compassion, and all the things that are good in life. The black wolf is born of jealousy, hatred, pettiness, prejudice, vindictiveness, and all the poisons of the human personality. The two constantly war with each other for dominance. And one day, one wolf will overtake and devour the other.” - Acheron”

Source: Inferno: Chronicles of Nick

“We believe - we believe that, if we tell the people the truth, that they will act bigger than the pettiness we see in Washington, D.C. We believe it is possible to forge bipartisan compromise, and stand up for our conservative principles.”

People Ifs Believe Principles Bigger Conservative Compromise Bipartisan Pettiness

Author:Chris Christie

“In our daily life, we encounter people we are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying ere is so their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.”

People Needs Wells Together Work Losing Capacity Anger Angry Greed Encounters Daily Life Satisfying Distrust Deceitful Pettiness Trust Issues

Author:Margaret J. Wheatley

“I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.”

People Way Want Believe Ends Bigs I Believe Wall Election Right Thing Pettiness

Author:Kevin Costner

“In the absence of a great dream pettiness prevails. Shred visions foster risk taking, courage and innovation. Keeping the end in mind creates the confidence to make decisions even in moments of crisis.”

Mind Ends Moments Dream Decision Vision Risk Innovation Crisis Absence Risk-taking Pettiness

Author:Peter Senge

“Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.”

Mind Long Young Science Fall Tree Wind Folks Long Life Detached Pettiness Tree Of Knowledge

Author:George Iles

“I have decided to keep a record of my inmost real-self thoughts. Perhaps it will help me to find out what I really am like: horrid, I know: selfish, conceited, and material-minded. For instance, lately whenever I've tried to concentrate on anything serious or beautiful, I've started thinking about the Spencers' dance next week. I am ashamed of my pettiness. I'm going to try to do better this year--develop my character more and not always be thinking about enjoying myself. I've always been so happy, I dread disappointment and unhappiness, but they would be good for me. But I don't want them.”

“Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big.”

Trying Littles Book Helping Bigs Greatness Pettiness

Author:Eduardo Galeano

“In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails.”

Dream Absence Pettiness Learning Organization

Author:Robert Fritz

“A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self.”

Real Self Reality Consciousness Atheism Wall Conscious Positive Atheism Envy Believer Doctrine Dishonesty Malice True Believer Real Self Pettiness

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.”

“We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our lusts, we overcome our fears, we overcome our pettiness on the basis of the blood of the Lamb.”

Blood Brother Conscience Overcoming Bases Defeat Lust Temper Brothers And Sisters Lambs Pettiness Accusers Bad Temper

Author:D. A. Carson

“When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.”

Seems Joy Speak Sadness Gay Wave Echoes Hopelessness Pettiness Gaiety

Book:The Scarlet Pimpernel

Source: The Scarlet Pimpernel

“Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace.”

Trying Grace Guilt Denial Flats Hiding Impress Pettiness Brownies Wallowing Ragamuffin Gospel Huffing

Book:The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

“Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness - the word looks much like pettiness - and there is but little difference between them.”

Looks Littles Differences Feet Thousand Mountain Red Caught Sunset Fifteen Coarse Waterfalls Sensational Pettiness Prettiness

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We must be vigilant that we don't sink into the morass of sectarianism, mixing, pettiness etc. We must not get involved in unprincipled slagging matches etc or into positions that are sectarian, anti-revolutionary, morally damaging that give succour to the enemy & that confuse & divide the working class”

Giving Enemy Class Position Involved Revolutionary Etc Divides Working Class Get Involved Mixing Vigilant Sectarianism Pettiness

Author:Thomas S. Power

“Push hard to get better, become smarter, grow your devotion to the truth, fuel your commitment to beauty, refine your emotional intelligence, hone your dreams, negotiate with your shadow, cure your ignorance, shed your pettiness, heighten your drive to look for the best in people, and soften your heart -- even as you always accept yourself for exactly who you are with all of your so-called imperfections.”

Source: Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings

“You are chosen to be faithful women of God in our day, to stand above pettiness, gossip, selfishness, lewdness, and all other forms of ungodliness. Recognize your divine birthright as daughters of our Heavenly Father.”

Form Father Divine Daughter Chosen Selfishness Faithful Heavenly Gossip Heavenly Father Birthright Being Faithful Pettiness Women Of God

Author:Howard W. Hunter

“The Tao has no place for pettiness, and nor has Virtue. Pettiness is dangerous to Virtue; pettiness is dangerous to the Tao. It is said, rectify yourself and be done.”

Said Done Virtue Dangerous Tao Pettiness Rectify

Author:Zhuangzi

“To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.”

Writing Ends Stress Biographies Separating Pettiness

Author:Simone Weil

“To the mean all becomes mean.”

Mean Pettiness

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.”

Littles Poor Fool All Things Petty Estimation Pettiness

Book:THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel

Source: THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel

“To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.”

Mean Eye All Things Yellow Pettiness

Book:On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History

Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History

“The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.”

Mind Adoration Blasphemy Pettiness

Author:Andre Gide

“You work here [on the farm] simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you feel a surge of cosmic exaltation, like the clear light of the heavens... . And you, too, seem to be taking root in the soil which you are digging, to be nourished by the rays of the sun, to share life with the tiniest blade of grass, with each flower; living in nature's depths, you seem then to rise and grow into the vast expanse of the universe.”

Feels Sometimes Hard Light Seems Universe Heaven Grows Sun Clear Share Land Flower Roots Depth Grass Soil Farms Rays Cosmic Blades Crowded Digging Exaltation Expanse Blades Of Grass Pettiness

Author:A. D. Gordon

“When we play the part of a great man too much, we seem very small.”

Men Play Seems Too Much Great Men Pettiness

Author:Philippe Nericault Destouches