Minor Quotes

457 Minor quotes by 390 unique authors

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. — Gaston Bachelard
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue. — Ambrose Bierce
Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her. — Tony Blair
The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. — Pierre Bourdieu
We are minor in everything but our passions. — Elizabeth Bowen
Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives. — William Throsby Bridges
I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of… — Kate Chopin
I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly. — Leonard Cohen
I believe in the Church of Baseball. I tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu,… — Unknown Author
Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation of minor inventions,… — Unknown Author
The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts. — Sun Tzu
Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment,… — Stephen Covey
When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we… — Hannah Arendt
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday… — William Butler Yeats
We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally. — Dalai Lama
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives. — Marilyn Ferguson
The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself. — Unknown Author
The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in… — Aristotle
A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals. — Confucius
Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new… — Rollo May
Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it… — Walt Whitman
It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment... It seems that if one is working from the… — Paul Dirac
If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident.… — Albert Schweitzer
In Illinois a pregnant woman who takes an illegal drug can be prosecuted for 'delivering a controlled substance to a minor.' This is an explicit… — Randy Alcorn
It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers, has been rather… — Paul Davies

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