Minor Quotes

457 Minor quotes by 390 unique authors

I never pay attention to errors in the Minor Leagues. Derek Jeter made 43 errors in the South Atlantic League, and I didn't care. With… — Jim Bowden
These small indignities and minor cruelties take a toll. They add to the burden of stress and fatigue that is already present in the workplace… — P. M. Forni
Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with… — William Osler
Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts; a man is never injured… — Luc de Clapiers
Further in Summer than the Birds Pathetic from the Grass A minor Nation celebrates Its unobtrusive Mass. No Ordinance be seen So gradual the Grace… — Emily Dickinson
Earth magic can help to sort out, work through and solve many of the minor crises and problems facing us as individuals today. True, it… — Scott Cunningham
Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous… — Criss Jami
What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate… — George Scialabba
Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds… — William E. Gladstone
Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but… — A. E. Housman
Self-projection is, more often than not, the move of the minor craftsman, of the tactics of the hour whose inherent weakness is, precisely, that of… — George Steiner
No victim wants their record, or their minor story to be told. Every victim should have the right to tell their own story. — Jim Bob Duggar
The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become… — Al Franken
I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a… — Neil Gaiman
A clever man commits no minor blunders. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty… — Francis Crick
Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues. — Ernie Harwell
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes… — Stephen Hawking
Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four. — Katharine Hepburn
I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost… — John Irving

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