Quotes About Petty Minds

#1. Petty minds foster petty hearts, and have the funny habit of shooting themselves in the foot.

Adriano Bulla

#2. Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.

Plutarch

#3. I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.

Jim Allchin

#4. 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.

Jon Katz

#5. The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer.

Pat Buchanan

#6. What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?

Bharati Mukherjee

#7. Without acting, I cannot breathe.

Laurence Olivier

#8. I remember I once told him: 'Women's minds are so petty, so crooked!' 'Like the feet of Chinese women,' he replied. 'Has not the pressure of society cramped them into pettiness and crookedness? They are but pawns of the fate which gambles with them. What responsibility have they of their own?

Rabindranath Tagore

#9. A blanket could be used to wrap up all the love I have to offer you, so it'll be easier for you to carry it across the desert. You'd better get walking, because me and my camel won't be stopping until we have to pee.

Jarod Kintz

#10. If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

C.S. Lewis

#11. That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty.

George Mason

#12. Silence has stuffed itself into every corner of this building.

Tahereh Mafi

#13. The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

Victoria Moran

#14. Little minds find gratification for their feelings, benevolent or otherwise, by a constant exercise of petty ingenuity.

Honore De Balzac

#15. A cat came out of an alley, took a look at all the snow, and went back in. Farther on up the street a fat man, aproned and puffing, emerged from a restaurant and whiffed the cold air and gazed yearningly at the sky. As though even the dreams were up there, much too far away.

David Goodis