Quotes about Petty

An attitude that really works against people is the desire for equality that feeds petty jealousy. For

Trifles make the sum of life.

The Master said, "The gentleman harmonizes [he] without being an echo. The petty man echoes [tong] and does not harmonize.

Asia and Europe are corners in the Universe; every sea, a drop in the Universe; Mount Athos, a clod of earth in the Universe; every instant of time, a pin-prick of eternity. All things are petty, easily changed, vanishing away. All things come from that other world, starting from that common governing principle, or else are secondary consequences of it.

Anyone who's so petty and pedantic at the age of fifty-four was born that way and is never going to change.

God has enough to think about," people often say, as though we shouldn't bother Him with our petty problems. But there is no spot in the universe that isn't filled, infused, permeated, and lifted up by the divine. Your Creator can't be left out, except in your thinking. And wherever He is left out in your thinking, He can't help you.

The London criminal is certainly a dull fellow. Look out of this window, Watson. See how the figures loom up, are dimly seen, and then blend once more into the cloudbank. The thief or the murderer could roam London on such a day as the tiger does the jungle, unseen until he pounces, and then evident only to his victim. There have been numerous petty thefts. This great and sombre stage is set for something more worthy than that. It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason. Without a purpose, life is trivial, petty, and pointless.

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

Perhaps living in that hope now will make us act less petty on this side of heaven.

Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor His infinite perfections as much as our smallest wants.