“ 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… Christopher Hitchens
“ Your tears are never invisible---there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out. Shannon L. Alder
“ 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. Christopher Hitchens
“ 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… Iain Pears
“ 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. Umberto Eco
“ Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive. Sebastian Faulks
“ He was going to hurt the people he hated, but inside he didn't feel any real sense of satisfaction. He hated them all the more for having made him feel so small, so petty and mean, which was all he fe… Riccardo Bruni
“ Meetings were an important means of Communist control. They left people no free time, and eliminated the private sphere. The pettiness which dominated them was justified on the grounds that prying int… Jung Chang
