Those who have not undergone minor disasters are usually being held in reserve for something major — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
(Jim) Landis is such a good player because he plays every day as if he expects to be sent to the minors… — Nellie Fox Copy Share Image
If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The first couple of years in the minors were tough for me. My numbers were there, but being away from home so… — Mike Trout Copy Share Image
Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours? — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
People are satisfied with making minor upgrades and tweaking things here and there - as long as that's the landscape, it will… — Hideo Kojima Copy Share Image
There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe - the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who… — Ruth Gordon Copy Share Image
Any quick analysis of a Beatles tune or a Cole Porter tune will reveal often simple but unexpected chords, chords that chromatically… — Paul Zollo Copy Share Image
No movement finding itself in this stage of struggle can operate by getting authority from the leading body of the political organs… — Joe Slovo Copy Share Image
Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Regardless of what the law or your teachers have to say about this, you are as human as anyone over the age… — Grace Llewellyn Copy Share Image
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I had the opportunity to play every day in the minors, and everybody knew me in the minors. In the big leagues,… — Felix Pie Copy Share Image
They [NYPD] tell you how you can act and what you can do your whole entire life. But they always stayed out… — Ralph Sarchie Copy Share Image
Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath… — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
Pain happens, but suffering is optional. When pain comes, make use of the experience, but do not wallow in it. When you… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
I am absolutely sick unto death of hearing people say - they all say this; it must be Item One on the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen.… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
It is often said it is no matter what a man believes if he is only sincere. This is true of all… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I have a suggestion that I think would help fight serious crime. Signs. There are lots of signs for minor infractions: No… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism.… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image