Minor Quotes

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
Vince Lombardi

Success, Family, Ignore

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 us something very special.
Stephen Hawking

Understand, Special, Universe

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin

Humor, Sense, Against

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We are minor in everything but our passions.
Elizabeth Bowen

Everything, Passions

A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Clever, Blunders, Commits

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

Moving, Lives, Whether

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
Katharine Hepburn

After, Acting, She

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce

Patience, Virtue, Disguised

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.
Avril Lavigne

Try, Trouble, Liked

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.
Steve Martin

Made, Working, Around

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
Leonard Cohen

Small, Try, Writer

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?
Joni Mitchell

Happiness, Understand, Why

I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me.
Margaret Walker

Between, Song, Body

What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee

America, Year, Five

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Great, Government, Country

Before coming here I had a minor back problem and I thought whenever I play Pakistan I get a back problem.
Sachin Tendulkar

Thought, Before, Play

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
Arthur Miller

Life, Game, Find

Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.
Tony Blair

Sleep, Wife, Her

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 earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?
Kate Chopin

Music, Else, Wind

A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.
Alicia Keys

Through, Eyes, Play

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 as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.
John Irving

Time, Character, Story

To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'
Nate Silver

Realize, Celebrity, Hey

God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.
Giacomo Casanova

Great, God, Himself

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.
Brad Pitt

Design, Complete, Furniture

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.
Bob Uecker

Year, Second, Player

I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years.
Rowan Atkinson

Car, Mother, Father

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

Life, Child, Event

Probably a concern to either a major or minor degree with most actors if they're really motivated to kind of make a significant difference in the business is the 'pigeon-holing' thing.
Dominic Monaghan

Business, Difference, Either

Another parent's different approach raises the possibility that you've made a mistake with your child. We simply can't tolerate that because we fear that any mistake, no matter how minor, could have devastating consequences. So we proclaim the superiority of our own choices. We've lost sight of the fact that people have preferences.
Ayelet Waldman

Fear, Lost, Different

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?
David R. Brower

Energy, Worth, Next

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