Pettily Petty Quotes & Sayings

Unless your goal is to train your readers to be detectives, only the details necessary to give the reader an idea of the scene should be included. — Kat Duncan

You are endowed with a peculiar gift, a wild card really, capable of thumping your history, while creating your future - called Free Will. — Garry Fitchett

The worst things, however, are the petty thoughts. Verily, better to have done evilly than to have thought pettily! — Friedrich Nietzsche

It's hard to let go. Even when what you're holding onto is full of thorns, it's hard to let go. Maybe especially then. — Stephen King

As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special. — Dierks Bentley

No doubt exists that rent seeking in general leads to serious inefficiencies in this direct sense, but its indirect damage is even worse. Drawing the bulk of intelligent and energetic people in society into activity that has no social product, or may have a negative social product, is more important in explaining the stagnation of these societies than the direct social cost of the rent seeking. — Gordon Tullock

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on. — Katherine Dunn

At German unification, we were lucky to get so much help from West Germany. Now, we have the good fortune of being able to help each other in Europe. — Angela Merkel