Quotes About Petty Lies

#1. It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings

Isak Dinesen

#2. There are many kinds of betrayals. There are the small ones: the unkind word, the laughter behind someone's back, the petty lies. And there are the betrayals that break hearts, destroy worlds, and turn the strong, sweet light of day into bitter dust.

Gillian Shields

#3. I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. It forgets the great way home that lies before it.

Sophie Scholl

#4. A laborer might last ten years or so before expiring. But individual workers in the death camp of sugar were survived by their culture, which was constantly re-Africanized by fresh arrivals. To that plantation culture, the music of our hemisphere owes no small debt.

Ned Sublette

#5. It is in the petty details, not in the great results, that the interest of existence lies.

Jerome K. Jerome

#6. There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

James Joyce

#7. 'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its four characters are heroes to a lot of women; they run around New York, or Gotham - but they have fancy shoes instead of capes.

Michael Patrick King

#8. You have to see everyone in relationship to you. Just because you understand the shit in someone else's life doesn't mean you don't stand up for your own

Chris Crutcher

#9. I'm fighting here, with everything I've got. Fight for me too.

Sylvia Day

#10. Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

Stephen Fry

#11. If your existence does not make any difference, you are no more than a dead body.

M.F. Moonzajer

#12. I have a distinct memory, dating back to 1989 or so, of sitting around with my college dorm mates talking about a new term that was popping up everywhere: 'political correctness.'

Meghan Daum

#13. Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.

Tom Petty

#14. Then it doesn't matter which way you walk ... -so long as I get somewhere.

Lewis Carroll

#15. Would you just fall in love with me already so I can stop acting normal.

Van Krishna

#16. Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.

Pablo Picasso