#petty

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


Imelda Marcos


#get #here #i #listening #million

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


#better #devoid #everything #freedom #justice

I'm a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, they're my two favorites.


Andrew Shue


#big fan #bruce #bruce springsteen #fan #favorites

In an interview with a journalist, you look petty taking the pot shot but in a slick ad you can really do damage - including unfair damage - from afar. It is not that much different than waging a war by a drone than by hand-to-hand combat.


Greta Van Susteren


#afar #combat #damage #different #including

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.


Theophrastus


#dinner #eager #his #host #invited

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.


Zhuang Zi


#generous #great #impassioned #petty #small

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?


Ivan Turgenev


#egoism #feelings #good #oppose #petty

To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was “system,” and indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was “industry”, indecision when right was “caution”, and blind stubbornness when wrong, “determination.


Isaac Asimov


#petty #love

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.


Emile M. Cioran


#obeys #paradise #petty #politician #republic

Petty laws breed great crimes.


Ouida


#crimes #great #laws #petty