Minors Quotes - Page 10

• You said your mom is the goddess of balance," I reminded him. "The minor gods deserve better, Ethan, but total destruction isn't balance. Kronos doesn't build. He only destroys.

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, Deserve Better, Balance

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.233, Penguin UK

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• Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, Thinking, Eternity

  Randy Alcorn (2017). “Seeing the Unseen, Expanded Edition: A 90-Day Devotional to Set Your Mind on Eternity”, p.105, Multnomah

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• I like the sound of that, crashing Monica's party," he glanced at Michael, then quickly away. "What about you? That break some kind of vampire rules or something?" "Blow me Shane." "Boys," Eve said primly. "Language. Minor at the table." "Well," Shane said, "I wasn't actually planning to do it." Claire rolled her eyes. "Not like it's the first time I've heard it. Or said it." "You shouldnt say it," Michael said, all seriousness. "No, I mean it. Girls should say 'eat me' not 'blow me'. Wouldn't recommend 'bite me' though. Not around here.

  Rachel Caine

  Girl, Party, Mean

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• Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.

  Elizabeth Bear

  Frustration, Able, Lifetime

  Elizabeth Bear (2006). “The Chains That You Refuse”, Nightshade Book

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• When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover. You are not sickening for anything, you have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what a s**t you are, you have not come at last to see life as it really is and there is no use crying over spilt milk.

  Kingsley Amis

  Jobs, Hangover, Sadness

  "Distilled Kingsley: The late, great author - and prodigious drinker - gives his advice on beating a hangover" by Kingsley Amis, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 26, 2008.

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• Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of reproduction.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Husband, Drama, Pregnancy

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• There's the usual suspects in there, Green Day and The Clash and The Smiths, yeah, but there's also Ella and Frank, even Dino, some Curtis Mayfield and Minor Threat and Dusty Springfield and Belle & Sebastian, and as I flip through his musical life, getting to know his tastes, I must acknowledge that not only am I not frigid, but I also may be multi-orgasmic.

  Rachel Cohn

  Musical Life, Usual, May

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• Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Liars, Artist, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.408, Modern Library

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• I’d designed my avatar’s face and body to look, more or less, like my own. My avatar had a slightly smaller nose than me, and he was taller. And thinner. And more muscular. And he didn’t have any teenage acne. But aside from these minor details, we looked more or less identical.

  Ernest Cline

  Teenage, Noses, Body

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.28, Random House

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• I never understood people who said their greatest fear was public speaking, or spiders, or any of the other minor terrors. How could you fear anything more than death? Everything else offered moments of escape: a paralyzed man could still read Dickens; a man in the grips of dementia might have flashes of the must absurd beauty.

  David Benioff

  Men, Greatest Fear, People

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• The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists inform me that I am a liar, charlatan, fraud and scoundrel. Aside from this minor difference, the letters are astoundingly similar. Both groups share the same crusading zeal and the same lack of humor, charity and common human decency. These intolerable cults have served to confirm me in my agnosticism by presenting further evidence to support my contention that when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Christian, Liars, Should Have

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• CO2 is a minor player in the total system, and human CO2 emissions are insignificant compared to total natural greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, lowering human CO2 emissions will have no measurable effect on climate, and continued CO2 emissions will have little or no effect on future temperature....While controlling CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels may have some beneficial effects on air quality, it will have no measurable effect on climate, but great detrimental effects on the economy and our standard of living.

  Jonathan Duhamel

  Player, Air, Quality

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• 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

  Years, America, People

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• For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  People, Suffering, Would Be

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• 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

  Song, Eye, Keys

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

  Avril Lavigne

  Motivational, Trying, Trouble

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have an economics degree with a minor in sociology. The reason I have that is because I want to do a ministry in urban areas and help with underprivileged kids.

  Jeremy Lin

  Kids, Degrees, Ministry

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

  Steve Martin

  Inspirational, Dance, Details

  Steve Martin (2008). “Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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

  Arthur Miller

  Games, Life Is, Pastime

  Life, February 7, 1964.

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• 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

  Tragedy, Needs, Emotion

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• Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun.

  Bobby Orr

  Sports, Fun, Memories

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• There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.

  Jasper Johns

  Art, Museums, Childhood

  "Master of few words". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2004.

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• 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

  Character, Stories, Fans

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

  Katharine Hepburn

  Women, Memorable, Acting

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

  Tony Blair

  Sleep, Wife, Nuclear

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