One of my major shortcomings - I'm vindictive. I don't know why that is. Even in petty things in my life I tend to strike back. It's a lot more pleasurable a sensation than feeling threatened.
I am very competitive - with myself and everybody else. I'm petty, too.
Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
Cultivated people foster what is good in others, not what is bad. Petty people do the opposite.
I'm real petty. I remember everything like an elephant.
For a long time, I've loved the kind of characters who are boastful yet petty. I was originally a gag manga artist, after all.
I think people have turned terrorists into these larger-than-life devils and so are unable to write about them in the obvious way, which is as human, petty, bumbling.
Like every other industry or institution, the journalism world is populated by the petty and fearful, in addition to the courageous and brilliant.
Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it.
Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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.
I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.
The dreamed outcome of launching a psychic attack can make you feel small and petty. I think for that reason I'm going to refrain from launching any.
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes.
This actress named Lisa Eilbacher. I was up for the part in Shampoo and friends of mine kept telling me she was going around saying all these bad things about me. It's like we're still in the sixth grade sometimes.
I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
You can't be stylish and petty at the same time.
… a mere intriguing, pettifogging, piddling politician.
The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take. He becomes fussy about filing, keen on seeing that pencils are sharpened, eager to ensure that the windows are open (or shut) and apt to use two or three different-colored inks.
As long asthe audience or the public perceives you to be sincere in your approach and not petty, they will think it's fair and they will wait for the other person's response. But if they sense it's petty or the slightest bit unfair, they'll turn on you right away.
There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice.
