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  • We must be vigilant that we don't sink into the morass of sectarianism, mixing, pettiness etc. We must not get involved in unprincipled slagging matches etc or into positions that are sectarian, anti-revolutionary, morally damaging that give succour to the enemy & that confuse & divide the working class

    Class   Giving   Enemy  
  • You work here [on the farm] simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you feel a surge of cosmic exaltation, like the clear light of the heavens... . And you, too, seem to be taking root in the soil which you are digging, to be nourished by the rays of the sun, to share life with the tiniest blade of grass, with each flower; living in nature's depths, you seem then to rise and grow into the vast expanse of the universe.

    Flower   Land   Roots  
  • The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.

    Drama   Self   Has Beens  
    Gore Vidal, Donald Weise (1999). “Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking, Collected Sex Writings”
  • The Tao has no place for pettiness, and nor has Virtue. Pettiness is dangerous to Virtue; pettiness is dangerous to the Tao. It is said, rectify yourself and be done.

    Done   Tao   Virtue  
  • One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.

    Cost   Dull   Avoided  
  • In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.

    Causes   Corny   Trouble  
  • Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.

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

    Fall   Science   Wind  
  • Is all anger sin? No, but some of it is. Even God Himself has righteous anger against sin, injustice, rebellion and pettiness.

  • You are chosen to be faithful women of God in our day, to stand above pettiness, gossip, selfishness, lewdness, and all other forms of ungodliness. Recognize your divine birthright as daughters of our Heavenly Father.

  • We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our lusts, we overcome our fears, we overcome our pettiness on the basis of the blood of the Lamb.

    Brother   Blood   Lust  
  • Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes.

    George F. Will (1992). “Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home, 1986-1990”
  • The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.

  • When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.

    Sadness   Gay   Echoes  
    Baroness Orczy (2012). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.140, Courier Corporation
  • Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

    Greatness   Mind   Matter  
  • The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.

    Song: The Confessor
  • I think you are a liar because you think you know what is true. You think you feel what is true. But you do not yet know what you do feel and what you do know. Your desire and do not take; you love and are too afraid to feel your love; you conceal your vanity and pettiness from yourself; you are afraid to look into your soul and see what you are. That iis why i think you are a liar.

  • A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self.

    Wall   Real   Self  
    Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”
  • You are different from the really great man in only one thing: The great man, at one time, also was a very little man, but he developed one important ability: he learned to see where he was small in his thinking, and actions. Under the pressure of some task which was dear to him he learned better and better to sense the threat that comes from his smallness and pettiness. The great man, then, knows when and in what he is a little man.

    "Listen, Little Man!". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1948.
  • I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.

    Wall   Believe   People  
    "Keeper of the flame" by Jonathan Freedland, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2001.
  • Pettiness seems to go hand in hand with vindictiveness. The smaller the person, the larger the need for revenge. This may account for the fact that some consensual crimes have stiffer penalties than do most crimes with innocent victims.

    Revenge   Hands   Needs  
    Peter McWilliams (1993). “Ain't nobody's business if you do: the absurdity of consensual crimes in a free society”, Mary Book / Prelude Pr
  • In our daily life, we encounter people we are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying ere is so their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

    Work   Anger   People  
  • The Constitution gives us a standard to follow. We cannot define impeachable offenses to a greater degree than the language of the Constitution. But we all agree the issue is the public trust. Our duty is not to punish anyone. And our challenge is to avoid pettiness.

    "Transcript: House Judiciary Committee meeting", www.cnn.com. October 5, 1998.
  • I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity.

    F. Stone's Bi-Weekly, December 14, 1971.
  • You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some criticism from those who are jealous, petty or angry because they were left behind.

    Jealous   Criticism   May  
    T. D. Jakes (1999). “Maximize the Moment: God's Action Plan for Your Life”, Putnam Publishing Group
  • It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.

    Ignorance   Men   Self  
  • To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

  • In the absence of a great dream pettiness prevails. Shred visions foster risk taking, courage and innovation. Keeping the end in mind creates the confidence to make decisions even in moments of crisis.

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

    Heart   Noble   Malice  
  • Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.

    Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books
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