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Well I won't back down
No I won't back down
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
But I won't back down — Tom Petty

Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish. — Soren Kierkegaard

George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn't going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you. — Tom Petty

Are you deliberately trying to waste our time," Hal asked in an icy voice, "or are you just being petty?"

"A little of both," said Azrael. — Mirriam Neal

Cultivated people foster what is good in others,
not what is bad.
Petty people do the opposite. — Confucius

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

Put a petty criminal in maximum security prison and he'll come out knowing how to rape and pillage. — Michelle Hodkin

now he was about to be killed because of yet another petty human with more power than sense. It didn't seem fair. — James S.A. Corey

Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions. — Tom Petty

I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know - everything. — Adria Petty

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty. — Lillian Hellman

The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe. — Rene Girard

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty. — Nick Carter

This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes. — Adriana Trigiani

I do not see why I should be polite to tyrants, who slobber of humanitarianism and think only of their own petty interests. — Paul Feyerabend

My ideas are like a Hydra. Remove a bad one and two good ones will take its place. — Paul E. Petty

A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect. — William Petty

I know he hasn't a mean or petty bone in him, but one can err on the side of caution as well as rashness. — Raymond E. Feist

Men are separated by so many petty things. — Aaron Huey

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord. — Zhuangzi

I wanted them to be terrible, hideous monsters. But they aren't. They are petty men who ruin lives and don't even notice. — Pierce Brown

The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts. — Sun Tzu

Little minds find gratification for their feelings, benevolent or otherwise, by a constant exercise of petty ingenuity. — Honore De Balzac

There was something being settled here, and if it was primal and barbaric and petty and stupid, it was still important. — Brent Weeks

If there are 10 people there, two or three are going to recognize you. — Richard Petty

Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown. — Tom Petty

The waiting is the hardest part. — Tom Petty

As leaders, we need to rise above petty politics and lead, rather than follow, the various interests and pressure groups in our respective countries. — Hassan Rouhani

I'm always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun. — Tom Petty

Yeah, the world would swing if I were king.
Can I help it if I still dream time to time? — Tom Petty

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom. — Bryant H. McGill

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

What the feckin' hell is PMS, I'd like to ken?"
"Petty Male Shit," she yelled. — Vonnie Davis

There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile. — Richard Petty

I would never put my songs in a commercial. — Tom Petty

This is payback, isn't it?" Jim glared at me. "Don't be ridiculous," I told him. "As the Consort of the Pack, I'm far above petty revenge. — Ilona Andrews

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

Never fear being a petty fool it means you ain't dying — Timothy Spall

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

When someone's got your rear tires off the ground, you don't have much traction. — Kyle Petty

We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections. — Saint Ignatius

Last dance with Mary Jane
One more time to kill the pain
I feel summer creepin' in and I'm
Tired of this town again — Tom Petty

Fight only in direst need
Not for lust or petty greed
Honor those that do give birth
Respect them well for their full worth — Anne McCaffrey

Gypsies at home watching Jerry Falwell on TV, might mean something to you, it ain't nothing to me. — Tom Petty

I'll stand my ground and I won't back down... — Tom Petty

I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying. — Tom Petty

The world doesn't give even the slightest damn about us or our petty problems. — Harlan Coben

I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration. — William Petty

In democratic society each citizen is habitually busy with the contemplation of a very petty object, which is himself. — Alexis De Tocqueville

There would be very little to dislike in other people if we refused to bring to them all of our own judgements and petty grievances. — Gerald Jampolsky

Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed. — Tom Petty

If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale. — Tom Petty

I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real. — Tom Petty

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

I think faith is the one common denominator between everything that goes on at the race track - a faith in Christ. — Kyle Petty

If you look around at America, that's one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit. — Tom Petty

argument often turns petty, regardless of its import. — Robert J. Crane

You've got a lot to look forward to in Heaven. Compared to what's in store for you in Heaven, your current pain and problems are petty. — Rick Warren

Jack Roush is the only guy that could keep Matt Kenseth from winning races. — Kyle Petty

Honey, don't walk out, I'm too drunk to follow. — Tom Petty

Let your words be petty and actions plenty! — Israelmore Ayivor

I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily. — Tom Petty

You can work hard, do everything that you think is right, but one thing you'll never overcome in life is fate. You can't control fate. — Richard Petty

Running down a dream ... working on a mystery ... going wherever it leads ... — Tom Petty

Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road. — Bob Dylan

Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl. — Tom Petty

In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow — Richard Wagner

I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them. — Tom Petty

I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it's so hard to kick it. — Tom Petty

She was never so petty. She did not dabble with minnows at the surface when there were thirty-pound salmon swimming deeper down. — Elizabeth Wein

I'm tired of screwing up. I'm tired of being down. I'm tired of myself. I'm tired of bein' down. — Tom Petty

Where is the fun of living if you are going to make yourself a slave to all sorts of petty rules? asked Patty wearily. — Jean Webster

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self. — Francis Bacon

I'm so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway. — Tom Petty

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

Do not meddle in the affairs of Administrative Assistants, for they are petty and quick to misfile. — Alexandra Erin

There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer. — Tom Petty

Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses. — Jean De La Bruyere

True evil is always petty and often incompetent. — Claire Chilton

But control does not imply petty interference. — T.R. Fehrenbach

My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV. — Tom Petty

You belong somewhere you feel free. — Tom Petty

I'll buy something because I love it. — Lori Petty

I have never been comfortable being the front man. — Tom Petty

The Master said, "The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit."
(Analects 4.16) — Confucius

We drove for the sheer fun of driving because there wasn't that much money to be made. — Richard Petty

I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there. — Tom Petty

What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life. — Tom Petty

The truth is, the longer it goes, the harder it gets. — Kyle Petty

People were strange like that. Steal five dollars and you were a petty thief. Steal thousands of dollars and you were either a government or a hero. — Terry Pratchett

The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part. — Tom Petty

Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value. — William Petty

It is in the petty details, not in the great results, that the interest of existence lies. — Jerome K. Jerome

We are not old men. We are not worried about petty morals. — Keith Richards

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor. — William Feather

She wasn't speaking to me - in the juvenile, petty sense of the phrase. — Stephenie Meyer

As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free. — Tom Petty

The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free. — Angelina Grimke

La mer is so much greater, so much grander than any petty human passion. It is itself, with no apologies and no explanations." Rosalind — Elaine Leclaire