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.
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.
This terrible smallness of men was bigger than him, bigger than anything.