Petty People Quotes: top 28 famous quotes about Petty People

Petty People Quotes & Sayings

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Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing. — Michael Dirda

How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts? — George Eliot

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here. — Tom Petty

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

A lot of people think my sarcasm comes from insecurity and defensiveness, but I assure you I'm just being petty and cruel. — Dana Gould

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

acts like a kind of reset button: it makes people forget themselves and their petty concerns. — Jonathan Haidt

Never get into the petty habit of measuring yourself worth against other people's net worth. — Robin Sharma

As wonderful as dogs can be, they are famous for missing the point. — Jean Ferris

Don't be so petty. Sometimes you have to do business with people you don't like. It doesn't mean you have to be like them or like them. — Donald Trump

My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them. — Jennifer O'Neill

If you have only been around people who use power in cruel and petty ways, then when you hear the very word, you may have a negative reaction. — Frederick Lenz

Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self. — Stephen Covey

We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is. — Thomas Sowell

You win when you refuse to fight petty people. Fighting little people reduces you to their size. — David J. Schwartz

You won't comprehend the vitality of literacy until you marry an illiterate. — Kshitij Shringi

For one man to gain another must lose — Samuel McMahon

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

I don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for a piano when I was 6 years old. — Jason Robert Brown

Sometimes when you don't expect to meet someone, apparently they will appear in front of you, so many times. — Nina Ardianti

America is capitalism on steroids. — Lowkey

'Free Fallin' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it. — Tom Petty

You're saying it wrong! It's LEVIOSA not LEVIOSAAA — J.K. Rowling

The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view. — Albert Einstein

If 20,000 people start to sing, you tend to go along with it. — Tom Petty

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

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