Pettily Quotes

#1. The worst things, however, are the petty thoughts. Verily, better to have done evilly than to have thought pettily!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. Greatness is not measured by what you have, but by what you give.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. I come from French Cajun Jewish people.

Shia Labeouf

#4. I, for instance, regard any particular man as finite, as one who has had a beginning and who will have an end. He has been born, and he is going to die. In the meantime, he has a body that roots him to this time and this place.

R.D. Laing

#5. I have real TV studios. If I have an idea, I can go shoot it. I can experiment. If I choose to air it or not, it's at my discretion. I don't have to do it to somebody else's time frame.

Criss Angel

#6. His impatience for sleep often frightened that very sleep away.

Hugh Howey

#7. There've been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education.

Peter Orszag

#8. If you're not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.

Karl Lagerfeld

#9. You don't seriously believe everybody on the planet should do whatever they want, do you? That would be terrible. These people need help and guidance.

Michael Crichton

#10. I read a book, am vortexed in with no escape; my face contorts, eyelids frost, breath comes short, body longs, heart stop-starts. Who's to say too much won't kill me? Who's to say I care?

Chila Woychik

#11. I always thought the name of Utah's major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word "desert." But no, Deseret is the "land of the honeybee," according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.

A. J. Jacobs