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Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive. — Sebastian Faulks

No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness. — Honore De Balzac

I enjoy my pettiness with a dose of wit. — David Liss

the colossi whose huge legs our living pettiness is observed to walk under — George Eliot

all of us lost souls allow ourselves to live in worry and anger and self-importance and pettiness when life with God is all around us: — John Ortberg

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt. — Jean Racine

This terrible smallness of men was bigger than him, bigger than anything. — Dennis Lehane

He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal. — Umberto Eco

To the mean all becomes mean. — Friedrich Nietzsche

They had furtive eyes and weak chins. There was no wickedness in them, but only pettiness and vulgarity. — W. Somerset Maugham

The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy. — Andre Gide

Your tears are never invisible
there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out. — Shannon L. Alder

Is all anger sin? No, but some of it is. Even God Himself has righteous anger against sin, injustice, rebellion and pettiness. — Joyce Meyer

All the itch and clutter of the world, its bother and fuss, its nagging pettiness, can wear you down so easily. And this is why I like the beach ... — William Boyd

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

Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness. — Honore De Balzac

It is one of the most detestable habits of a Liliputian mind to credit other people with its own malignant pettiness. — Honore De Balzac

Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up? — Sean Covey

Pettiness separates; breadth unites. Let us be broad and big. — Emma Goldman

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

The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord. — Joe Walsh

Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes. — George Will

Laughing at your pettiness probably works better than scolding yourself for it. — Sharon Salzberg

Ah, he would take her beyond
beyond the ugliness, the pettiness, the attrition and corrosion of her soul. — Edith Wharton

Ask without pettiness Being before doing Convictions without compromise Discipline without dreariness Ask — Ravi Zacharias

Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs. — Thomas Pynchon

Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness:
forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude ...
the absence of profound thankfulness. — Mary Anne Radmacher

To reveal your greatness, see the greatness in everyone. Ignore pettiness and forgive everyone. — Debasish Mridha

One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness. — Bruno Schulz

Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war. — Paul Fussell

It wasn't a petty squabble. It was a big squabble, in which pettiness played no small part. — David Quammen

Prejudice is nothing but ignorance, jealousy, pettiness" - she — R.D. Rosen

More than jealousy or possessiveness pettiness kills love. — Marty Rubin

In the presence of greatness, pettiness disappears. In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails. — Peter M. Senge