Petty Quotes - Page 7

• 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.

  Kent Nerburn

  Mean, Odds, Embrace

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Calm Surrender: Walking the Path of Forgiveness”, p.130, New World Library

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• The moment you understand yourself as the true Self, you find such peace and bliss that the impressions of the petty enjoyments you experienced before become as ordinary specks of light in front of the brilliant sun.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Light, Self, Ordinary

  Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.

  Zhuangzi

  Jail, Thieves, Nations

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  When you are actually powerful, you don't need to be petty.

  Jon Stewart

  Powerful, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty.

  George Mason

  Tyrants, People, Gentleman

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• Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self.

  Stephen Covey

  Self, People, Purpose

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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

  Theophrastus

  Ambition, Men, Dinner

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• Nobody went out to pasture, and a lot of people are doing their best work. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Sting are at the top of their game. I mean, Tony Bennett is the coolest guy I ever met! We have to figure out how to break out of this age ghetto.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Mean, Ghetto, Games

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• Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother.

  Karl Marx

  Mother, Father, Use

  Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). “Marx: Selected Writings”, p.227, Hackett Publishing

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• He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger; its petty, obliterating rage. But now he'd become detached. He regarded his body with a tender regret. It was the thing his spirit had to haul.

  Louise Erdrich

  Regret, Body, Spirit

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• When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.

  Epictetus

  Anger, Animal, Levels

  Epictetus (1926). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

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• It (Hinduism) is like the boa constrictor of the Indian forests. When a petty enemy appears to worry it, it winds round its opponent, crushes it in its folds, and finally causes it to disappear in its capaciousinterior....Hinduism has embraced Sikhism in its folds; the still comparatively young religion is making a vigorous struggle for life, but its ultimate destruction is, it is apprehended, inevitable without State support.

  Max Arthur Macauliffe

  Crush, Struggle, Wind

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• Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Slave, Hundred

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.41, Advaita Ashrama

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• Never fear being a petty fool it means you ain't dying

  Timothy Spall

  Mean, Dying, Fool

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• 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

  Winning, Games, Subjectivity

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• My fine friends who are perfectionists, each in their own world where they are petty dictators, could write a perfect bill. Those of us who have grown up and matured...understand that we have to work together on the big issues.

  Newt Gingrich

  Writing, Issues, Perfect

  "A TARP Counterfactual" by Nick Baumann, www.motherjones.com. December 8, 2009.

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• News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to communicate what they have just learned.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Ambition, Intelligent, Gossip

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• A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray.

  John Dryden

  Men, Brave, Quarrels

  John Dryden (2014). “All for Love”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Lines, Social

  William Faulkner “The Sound and the Fury”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Radio used to be dominated by Tom Petty and artists like that. If Tom Petty came out today, he'd be played on country radio - all that stuff would. I think the genre has opened itself up to more styles of country, and I think that's a good thing.

  Charles Kelley

  Country, Thinking, Artist

  "Lady Antebellum: On Heels of No. 1 Album, Charles Kelley Talks Crossover Success (Q&A)". Interview with Andy Eiser, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 22, 2011.

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• An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Ambition, Progress, Aim

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• It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders in loyal acquiesce.

  Criss Jami

  Humble, Insecure, Order

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.41, Criss Jami

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• There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Long, Giving, Perspective

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• The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one’s own character.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Real, Ambition

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• Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I've been so blessed, it's hard to look back and think anything but that, so I have no disappointments.

  Aaron Tveit

  Awards, Should Have, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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