Petty Quotations

I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.

Petty things don't bother me as much as they used to.

As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention physical decline and inevitable petty tragedies of disappointed expectations, would have made for resentment in any event; but I used to be a passive schoolboy, my negative impulses turned obediently inward.

Let's make a deal with the Serbs. Neither history nor emotion in the Balkans will permit multinationalism. We have to give up on the illusion of the last eight years... Dayton isn't working. Nobody - except diplomats and petty officials - believes in a sovereign Bosnia and the Dayton accords.

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

Amazon is famously run by studying and responding to its own data; yet when it comes to promotions, decisions are often subjective and guided by human emotions and petty political dynamics.

We're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think, if there's a God - and I believe there is - that God is there to help. That's what God's job is.

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

My life is full of drama, and I don't have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.

There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do. It's one reason why we love them so much, in fact. They are neither "good" nor "bad." They don't hold grudges, act in petty ways, or seek revenge. They read our moods, but not our minds.

I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.

Most things I worry about never happen anyway.

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

I think standing and fighting and working alongside all of these people that raise their right hand and serve their nation... really wipes away the distractions of some of the petty things we think are important at home.

I don't get into these petty things, Kentucky-Louisville. To me, it's nonsense... There will be people at Kentucky that will have a nervous breakdown if they lose to us... They've got to put the fences up on bridges. There will be people consumed by Louisville.

Part of my desire to play music was because I wanted to escape the art world and the politics of it; the petty gossip-y art world. But you know, I feel like they're both equal forms of expression.

No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the petty decrees of social bureaucracy.

We've all grown up a lot, and we realize that small stuff is just small stuff, and we look at the big picture on every level. We think about the future, we think about music, and how to make music the best we can. There's nothing petty going on. It's very focused.

When we win again with Petty Enterprises, that's going to be a great day, and a lot of emotions will be flowing.

Tom Petty kept his price very low compared to his contemporaries. Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire did, too, when they paired up for a tour, and it was very successful.

What looks like swindling with a petty sum,Is on a grand and speculative scaleHonest enough, so it be large enough.

What looks like swindling with a petty sum, Is on a grand and speculative scale Honest enough, so it be large enough.

With these two working together, it'll take Petty Enterprises to another level, ... My job -- and it's been made clear to me by Robbie -- is to sit my butt in a race car and drive it and keep my mouth shut.

We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling them to work for petty and contemptible rewards.

Men are separated by so many petty things.

We're excited to again be working with the Petty organization and thrilled to be a part of a year that is bringing significant leadership changes to Kyle's team.

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Leaders can express the values that hold the society together. Most important, they can conceive and articulate goals that life people out of their petty preoccupations, carry them above the conflicts that tear a society apart, and unite them in the pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts.

So I've realized that this outfit is part of Richard Petty now. And the real Richard Petty is still hidden behind these glasses.

Only this way the human life will escape its own burden, its own image, its own Destiny, the vanity, the deceit and the absurd, the strange coldness of this world, finally choosing the complete peace of the Nirvana it was looking throughout its historical evolution, a strange and absurd Nirvana itself in reference to the increasingly humble and insignificant being compared to it, to the stranger that replaces more often self and more inhumanly, that mocks her creating it a society increasingly petty and absurd. Is suicide the saving solution of the mankind? Is it not any other way through which man would chase away the alien within him, the absurd and the anxiety so that he can find his Sacred Self that was stolen so many millennia ago? What other way could there be except suicide?

If we destroy the biosphere, then mankind will die. We all waste our time worrying about stupid wars and petty jealousy and greed, and all the time, we're sitting on a time bomb.

I'm a proud graduate of the Richard Petty Driving Experience, ... They wouldn't let me go any faster than 140 mph and I didn't particularly like that, but what a thrill to be able to participate in something like that.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.

He tries to explain why man behaves most improbably, strangely, at variance with his nature, how it is possible for instance that a calm, rather neutral petty bourgeois is all of a sudden capable of commanding a concentration camp, burning to death or gassing thousands of people, and afterwards returning to his clerk's life as if nothing happened,

The people in Homeland Security who questioned the city were being totally petty and totally wrong and engaging in a petty turf war,

He secretly knows what happened. You're always looking for the right place, which was here. Board members didn't argue about petty things and wanted to do the right thing. I used to tell friends I knew I had found the right place.

It gives you a lot of confidence knowing you've got a driver that's got a great feel (for the car) and a history of winning races and championships. He knows what it takes to be there at the end of the day. Robbie learned a lot with Jeff Gordon, and I had 10 great years with Yates and won a championship with Dale. This is a new deal and an opportunity for us as a group to take all the things we've learned and take Petty Enterprises back to the top.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive

I was with the Petty family for 11 years before being blessed to work with Jeff and the No.24 team, ... Kyle and Richard are giving me an incredible opportunity to come home.

People, who rise above their petty individual selfishness and work for the welfare of society are considered patriots.

My personal opinion is this isn't even about what the district can afford. It's turned into a personal and petty battle. I think if the state would drive a dump truck full of money to the administration building, they still wouldn't budge on the offer.

Like small cities, cruise ships experience crime ? from petty to profoundly tragic.

The arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self

You alone are the True Banker, O Lord; the rest of the world is just Your petty trader.

We've got a lot of work left to do. This is just another step toward what we want to do at Petty Enterprises.

We need to ignore some petty or nonessential or marginal issues in order to achieve national unity for Iraq, including the unity of the opposition.

We get Wally's car from the Richard Petty Driving Experience. We actually ran a Petty school paint scheme on the car at Indy and they've proven to be a great partner.

We get Wally's car from the Richard Petty Driving Experience, ... We actually ran a Petty school paint scheme on the car at Indy and they've proven to be a great partner.

The demand for race tickets in Las Vegas continues to increase every time we stage a NASCAR race. We're especially thrilled to be announcing this sellout, given that we added the 17,000-seat Richard Petty Terrace for this year's race.

What I find curious is that I ever became a writer at all. I grew up in the South Bronx, the land of poverty and petty hoodlums.

I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.

There is petty corruption at administrative level ... People pay bribes in order to accelerate their business.

To be able to lead (Richmond's bid) was just a real honor. For someone that remembers watching Richard Petty and David Pearson duel in 1969, that was pretty cool ... I'm excited about that still. That's the feeling I'm trying to hold on to tonight.

The petty theft charge is a result of him taking a cab and stiffing the cab driver. He took a cab from Santa Barbara to Malibu and then didn't pay.

The petty economics of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor

The only storyline we have right now is Luanne starts going out with this guy, Lucky. Tom Petty ( search ) does the voice. He's a character we had season-before-last, and we just loved the character and the way Petty did his voice. It felt like it really fit.

We are excited to partner with TEAM, RADD and NHTSA on this campaign, designed to raise awareness of two major safety issues -- impaired driving and seatbelt use. Richard Petty Driving Experience provides the perfect venue for the campaign's messages and incentives, particularly for reaching young men, who make up the highest risk group for motor vehicle crashes, ... The collaboration of our staff, NASCAR driver hosts and fans with the celebrities and dignitaries that represent the campaign at Richard Petty Driving Experience is exciting to see.

'Attack The Block' is an alien invasion film set in South London. It's about a group of kids who are some petty thugs, who have to find the hero in themselves, when they attack.

Coming here makes you realize that all the things you think are going wrong are really OK. Just as a person, it makes you feel you can't be that petty when a girl tells you they're the last in their bloodline. I've seen kids who've walked up the hill and back and they are coming up to me and giving me a hug.

Criminals may be dumb, but they're not stupid. They know on the petty thefts that if they get arrested early in a police officer's shift, there's a really good chance they'll be back on the street before that police officer finishes his shift that day,

I've never heard of anything like this. What I have heard about though is that typically in the spring time there are small petty thefts around Riverside for things such as bicycles, because people tend to leave garage doors open.

It was very interesting how so many people are struggling to survive. They resort to petty crime to survive and get arrested while people at Halliburton steal millions from the government and they're out prospering.

These long-haired, mentally unstable, petty little sawdust Caesars only find courage like rats, by hunting in packs.

The selection of these actors portraying foul-mouthed, drug-using, petty criminals as representative of East Coast music is ludicrous at best and an insult to every music-loving Canadian in general, and East Coasters in particular.

I've never been in a 'Twitter fight,' though I've witnessed my fair share. I do enjoy vigorous and informed debate, but the benefit is lost when the exchange becomes a series of petty ad hominem attacks. I don't see much value in it.

Pursuing petty physical beauty leads man astray; it is as calamitous as the pursuit of trivial joy.

The name of the show was 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,' not 'Philip and Viv of Bel-Air.' If you didn't want to walk away from the best job in the world over a petty issue, you accepted the way it was.

Any squabble Roger and the band have had in the past are so petty in this context, and if re-forming for this concert will help focus attention, then it's got to be worthwhile.

This isn't about small government. This is about small-minded, petty government that does not meet the needs of the American people.

They should be in a position to defend their niche petty well. But the market is growing in new directions and there's a lot of other mobile devices now.

They made off with four computers and some petty cash. Some money that was left around to buy stamps and the like.

It sets the stage for you to arrive at the campus. When you reach Neely and Petty it gives you that transition to campus and then you feel like you have arrived in the heart of campus.

It was so small and senseless. A petty argument lost him his life.

It's a learning experience and a great way to see what other first-class petty officers have to offer. The speakers have been very informative and I've learned a lot just talking to the other first class petty officers here.

It's the Grinch who stole Christmas, ... In a petty move, the Bush administration has banned minor activities such as Christmas tree harvesting and mushroom picking to express their opposition to a judge's ruling. The action is particularly ill-timed considering the short harvest season for mushrooms and Christmas trees. Precedent clearly shows that these kind of activities are not subject to administrative appeals. The Forest Service should rescind this punitive order and allow people who rely on these activities for their livelihood to pay the bills and put food on the table.

It's funny, because if Tom Petty or R.E.M. came out today, they'd be alt-country,

It's sad to see Gary go out this way. I've been a vocal critic of his coaching, but you can't let someone go for such a petty issue. We're giving the appearance that we're firing a man for cause and I think that's reprehensible.

It's petty stuff that might take a week or two to heal, and, unfortunately, we've only got a week left.

Despite all the things we all experience, like heartbreak and pain, it takes being able to get through it to realize the beauty of life. All the negative makes you realize the things that matter. It puts the petty things in perspective.

It's better that they fake it at the podium and show some class than let old feuds fume. It's important to forget those petty squabbles, look at the big picture and thank the people they disagreed with.

It wasn't any fun to watch today at some points. Of course emotions ran high, but we don't need to commit those kind of petty fouls.

This is just another step toward what we want to do at Petty Enterprises. We keep trying to do it every day and keep getting better and better.

This is clearly just pettiness directed at me, ... It baffles me that they are going to these petty extremes, especially when I am still an outspoken supporter of public radio and NPR specifically.

the neutrals and not-so-neutrals of the Third World to air their petty disputes and pretend to be involved in humanitarian causes.

I hope we get a cop from New York, and maybe a small petty criminal from some other city ... they won't get along.

I'm trying to get at something a little transcendent between humans. But at the same time, there's all that baggage: What's beautiful about humans is what's balanced by what's kind of ugly and petty and depressing.

In my opinion that is a monstrous thing. Are we living in a free British colony, or under some petty local despot? Will the people of New Zealand allow any man, even though he hold the rank of Native Minister, to ride rough-shod over the Constitution? Will they allow any man, even though he be a Minister of the Crown, to suspend trial by jury if it so pleases him?

I just have to apologize to Petty Enterprises. I should have been more worried about stopping my car than people from behind running into me. I ended up being the guy that got Kyle.

I just have to apologize to Petty Enterprises and everybody on the 45 car. It is a terrible day.

I am not interested in petty gossip; I am not interested in who sells the most records and the politicizing of economics that makes that possible. I am not interested in a body politic of the largely uninformed who attempt to politically designate certain people as deserving of wider recognition.

I don't worry about little petty details like that. Obviously, they're always looking for the younger hope, the newest, latest, greatest, and I'm definitely not any of those. But I believe in myself and I know what I can do, and if I didn't, I wouldn't even be in this position.

My secrets are petty but humiliating.

Ah God! the petty fools of rhyme/ That shriek and sweat in pigmy wars.

You've got to put the petty stuff behind you and play football and I think in the second half, for the most part, we did that.

The loss to Dallas was petty devastating and I'm just pleased the way they came back and worked. ...they came back and worked at it and we had a good week of preparation.

I’d love to have an opportunity to tie the greats in Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Sr.

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