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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

It's always been great to be onstage. It's really effortless up there. It's not a lot of work. — Tom Petty

I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past — Tom Petty

Most of Hitler's henchmen were not demons. They were overly obedient petty bourgeois who had mutated into murderers. — Rudolph Herzog

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success. — Tom Petty

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

What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite. — Ivan Turgenev

There's no room for petty grievances in politics. — Sergei Lavrov

Disclosing one's "deep, dark secrets" makes them no less deep or dark or secret than any other petty flaw. — Alan De Jager

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

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

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty. — Imelda Marcos

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

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

She's a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too. — Tom Petty

He [George Harrison] told me he really, really admired John [Lennon]. He probably wanted John's acceptance pretty bad, you know? — Tom Petty

Yeah and it's over before you know it
It all goes by so fast
Yeah the bad nights take forever
And the good nights don't ever seem to last — Tom Petty

Let it go. That's my philosophy: learn to not give a fuck, at least about petty shit. Life will be much simpler. — Cherrie Lynn

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children. — Phillips Brooks

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

Maybe that's how one becomes a killer. Not with decision, but with acceptance. — Heather W. Petty

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

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

Sometimes, giving up your privacy is a little like going to the dentist and we have let him have access that no one's ever had. — Tom Petty

I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter. — Benmont Tench

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

My grandfather is the king, my Dad's the prince, I guess that makes me the butler. — Adam Petty

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty. — John Mellencamp

Let's get to the point Let's roll another joint — Tom Petty

I think it's important to always offer something new. — Tom Petty

God, it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far out of reach. — Tom Petty

I do know this much though: If a man resorts to wiles, guile and petty deceptions, it means he's nowhere near being in love. — Orhan Pamuk

There's a freeway running through the yard. — Tom Petty

I don't understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That's not gonna work out, you know? It's a waste of your time! — Tom Petty

If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become. — Sammy Hagar

The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite. — Tom Petty

My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she's a swinger dating a singer, I can't decide which is worse. — Tom Petty

The God I believe in is not so fragile that you hurt Him by being angry at him, or so petty that He will hold it against you for being upset with Him. — Harold S. Kushner

It's all about racing on the track. — Adam Petty

When you kill somebody's little sister with a missile, he's going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more. — Tom Petty

And the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed, then changed again. It's hard to find a friend. It's hard to find a friend. — Tom Petty

It's not my fault that these are the problems I've been put on this earth to deal with, right? They're petty, they piss me off, and they're all mine — Megan McCafferty

No matter how long you play the guitar, there's always something else to learn. — Tom Petty

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem. — Tom Petty

It's like Tom Waits said," Petty remarks. "'I'm an artist, but I'm still in show business. — Warren Zanes

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

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning. — Richard Petty

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

I don't think there's a petty system of heaven and hell. The love of God is much more forgiving. I'm not a believer in a wrathful God at all. — Susan Sarandon

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