Minor Quotes

457 Minor quotes by 390 unique authors

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 that these will… — Jeremy Denk
It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe - the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor - loves… — Francis Chan
For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general… — Cesare Beccaria
Holding back our thoughts, feelings and behaviors can place people at risk for minor and major diseases. — James W. Pennebaker
God is the original, master forgiver. Each time we grope our reluctant way through the minor miracle of forgiving, we are imitating his style. I… — Lewis B. Smedes
In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd. — John Kenneth Galbraith
As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse. — Anthony Burgess
There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic. No reason at all. I do not know one person in the National Front who committed… — Jean-Marie Le Pen
The problem of an atomic war must not be confused by minor problems such as Communism versus capitalism. An atomic war would kill everyone, left,… — Linus Pauling
If you are used to going five innings and then go six or seven, you won't have your good stuff. They need to start that… — Juan Marichal
In music I still prefer the minor key, and in printing I like the light coming from the dark. I like pictures that surmount the… — W. Eugene Smith
There is much else in the literary idiom of nature-philosophy: nothing-buttery, for example, always part of the minor symptomatology of the bogus. — Peter Medawar
If you have a sane economy, and by sane economy I mean one which is not addicted to debt, not a Ponzi economy, then the… — Steve Keen
If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint… — Buffy Sainte-Marie
Let your desire for truth transcend all minor considerations. Ignorance is invariably confident. The man of knowledge learns to realize his own needs. Be honest… — Grenville Kleiser
Somewhere, a sparrow is singing in B minor. — Heather O'Neill
Our best long-term and intermediate cycles suggest another slowdown and stock crash accelerating between very early 2014 and early 2015, and possibly lasting well into… — Marc Faber
There are certain bad habits we've groomed our whole life -- from personality flaws to fashion faux pas. And it has been the role of… — Neil Strauss
We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now… — Neil Strauss
You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year...unfortunately, I had been in the majors for two years at the time. — Bob Uecker
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. — Sigmund Freud
Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to things which are genuinely of… — Michel Houellebecq
For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift. — G. H. Hardy
Much like the removal of moles and skin lesions is done to prevent them from growing into more serious skin abnormalities, removing minor discord before… — T.D. Jakes
I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they… — Gerry Cooney

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