Your tears are never invisible---there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out.
Pettiness often leads both to error and to the digging of a trap for oneself. Wondering (which I am sure he didn't) 'if by the 1990s [Hitchens] was morphing into someone I didn’t quite recognize, Blum...
(n.) The quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness; meanness.
Odd, don't you think? I have seen war, and invasions and riots. I have heard of massacres and brutalities beyond imagining, and I have kept my faith in the power of civilization to bring men back from...
Bloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rather impose himself on people than on mechanical devices.
More than jealousy or possessiveness pettiness kills love.
This terrible smallness of men was bigger than him, bigger than anything.
Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.
He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.