Petty Quotes - Page 8

• Petty things don't bother me as much as they used to.

  Rebecca Lobo

  Used, Bother

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• Be reflective...and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty interests, its inbreeding tendencies, its stifling atmosphere, its corroding influence. Once become

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Atmosphere, World, Inbreeding

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• Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil.

  Steven Biko

  Evil, Apartheid

  "I Write What I Like (We Blacks)". Book by Steven Biko, 1978.

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• We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.

  William Butler Yeats

  Country, People, Political

  Speech in Seanad on government measure outlawing divorce, 11 June 1925

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• The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of petty-bourgeois Anarchism. And the struggle against these elements cannot be waged with propaganda and agitation alone. ... The struggle must also be waged by applying force and compulsion.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Military, Struggle, Agitation

  "he Guillotine At Work : Twenty Years of Terror In Russia". Book by Grigoriĭ Petrovich Maksimov, p. 38, 1940.

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• To just burn out, to give up just because things don't go your way, to assume that there is no God, no infinite light - I think that's pretty petty, personally.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Giving Up, Thinking

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• Growing older is an opportunity for you to increase your value and competence as the neural connections in your hippocampus and throughout your brain increase, weaving into your brain and body the wisdom of a life well lived, which allows you to stop living out of fear of disappointing others and being imperfect. Ageless living is courageous living. It means being undistracted by the petty dramas of life because you have enough experience to know what’s not worth worrying about and what ought to be your priorities.

  Christiane Northrup

  Drama, Mean, Opportunity

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• Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?

  Karl Marx

  Men, Doe, Income

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx (pp. 809 - 810), 1857-1858.

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• Among our neighbors of Central and Southern America, we see the Caucasian mingled with the Indian and the African. They have the forms of free government, because they have copied them. To
  its benefits they have not attained, because that standard of civilization is above their race. Revolution succeeds Revolution, and the country mourns that some petty chief may triumph, and
  through a sixty days' government ape the rulers of the earth.

  Jefferson Davis

  Country, America, Race

  Jefferson Davis' speech, 1858.

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• I can't convince myself that it does much good to try to challenge the everyday political delusions and dementias of Americans at large. Their contained and confined mentalities by far prefer the petty and parochial prisons of the kind of sense they have been trained and rewarded for making out of their lives (and are punished for deviating from them). What it costs them ultimately to be such slaves and infants and ideological zombies is a thought too monstrous and rending and spiky for them even to want to glance at.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Political, Challenges

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• I’d love to have an opportunity to tie the greats in Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Sr.

  Jimmie Johnson

  Opportunity, Ties

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• Hmm. Petty? Yes. Ineffectual? Yes. Infuriating and off-putting? Yes. Counterproductive? Yes. It's got to be a product of the French Foreign Ministry.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Ministry, Politics, Infuriating

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• Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Loyalty, Party, Men

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• Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible? Did we not hear The flutter of its wings, and feel it near, And just within our reach? It was. And yet We lost it in this daily jar and fret, And now live idle in a vague regret; But still our place is kept, and it will wait, Ready for us to fill it, soon or late. No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Stars, Regret, Wings

  "A Legend of Provence" l. 284 (1861)

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Littles, Fool, Poor

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.32, e-artnow

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• I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Selfish, Men, Suffering Of Others

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil.

  Winifred Holtby

  Teacher, Teaching, Government

  Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

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• As light fades and the shadows deepen, all petty and exacting details vanish, everything trivial disappears, and I see things as they are in great strong masses: the buttons are lost, but the sitter remains; the sitter is lost, but the shadow remains; the shadow is lost, but the picture remains. And that, night cannot efface from the painter's imagination.

  James Whistler

  Strong, Night, Light

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• Labor is rest--from the sorrow that greet us;
  Rest from all petty vexations that meet us,
  Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us,
  Rest from the world-sirens that hire us to ill.
  Work--and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow;
  Work--thou shalt ride over Care's coming billow;
  Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow!
  Work with a stout heart and resolute will!

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Lying, Heart, Waiting

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• The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.

  William Matthews

  Character, Giving, Anxiety

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• The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, culture. It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing art to defend their collapsing culture.

  George Grosz

  Art, Bourgeoisie, Culture

  George Grosz, Heartfield, Wieland Herzfelde (1987). “Art Is in Danger”

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

  Andrew Shue

  Two, Fans, Bigs

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

  Nick Carter

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Springsteen

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is two types of Larceny, Petty and Grand. They are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the law, but judges always put a little extra on you for Petty, which is kind of a fine for stupidness.

  Will Rogers

  Eye, Law, Two

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Your radiance shines
  in every atom of creation
  yet our petty desires keep it hidden.

  Rumi

  Shining, Desire, Atoms

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