Minors Quotes - Page 25

• To a woman who knows her own mind men can only be a minor consideration.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Men, Mind, Consideration

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• For popular purposes, at least, the aim of literary artists should be similar to that of Rubens in his landscapes, of which, without neglecting the minor traits or finishing, he was chiefly solicitous to present the leading effect, or what we may call the inspiration.

  William Benton Clulow

  Inspiration, Artist, Finishing

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.47

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• Just as, in travel, one may miss seeing the sunset because one cannot find the ticket-office or is afraid of missing the train, so in even the closest human relationships a vast amount of time and of affection is drained away in minor misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and failures in consideration or understanding.

  Iris Origo

  Sunset, Opportunity, Office

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• There are no minor decisions in movie making. Each decision will either contribute to a good piece of work or bring the whole movie crashing down around my head many months later.

  Sidney Lumet

  Decision, Pieces, Months

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• To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

  David Nicholls

  Weight, Littles, Kind

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• I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.

  O.R. Melling

  Art, Canada, Degrees

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• There are two kinds of happiness - the temporary pleasure derived primarily from material comfort alone and another more enduring comfort that results from the thorough transformation and development of the mind. We can see in our own lives that the latter form of happiness is superior because when our mental state is calm and happy, we can easily put up with minor pains and physical discomforts. On the other hand, when our mind is restless and upset, the most comfortable physical facilities do not make us happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Hands, Two

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• We had a couple of minor coups that made a big difference. We snared away from a competitor a correspondent already on the ground in Afghanistan. That was an enormous help to us, because there we were.

  Brit Hume

  Couple, Differences, Helping

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• A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees.

  Storm Jameson

  War, Growth, Symptoms

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.13, A&C Black

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• One of life's minor satisfactions is forgetting.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Satisfaction, Forget

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• If you and I shall, like the believing shepherds, watch and long for His appearing, one day we, too, shall hear a music grander and sweeter even than the song of angels, when the great Composer shall transpose all the strains of earth from the minor into the major, when the wail of nature shall give way to the glad harmony of the everlasting jubilee.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Song, Believe, Angel

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 555, 1895.

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• Maybe in the minor leagues. With my velocity, they would pick it up and say, 'Hey, you dropped something.'

  Jay Feaster

  League, Hey, Velocity

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• I grew up in a small town where you know everyone, .. I've been told all my life that I come from too small a town to compete with some of the guys that competed in a higher level growing up. And that kind of drove me through college and drove me in the minor leagues, because I got to face all those big 5- A [school district] guys in the minors.

  Roy Oswalt

  Growing Up, School, College

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• I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want certain things and they're in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that. More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens. I don't know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady's, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts. If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I'd have someone enter with a machine gun.

  Adam Rapp

  Character, Writing, Gun

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• A wedding is earth and water and a species of irreducible light and the flat belly of a harbor and a mango about to ripen and fall into gravity's caress and the waves subsiding and resuming their concerto in a minor key and the rush hour canceled by the stun of auspicious beginnings.

  Mark McMorris

  Fall, Keys, Light

  Mark McMorris (2003). “The Blaze of the Poui: Poems”, p.69, University of Georgia Press

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• Under present conditions, people are preoccupied with consumer goods not because they are brainwashed but because buying is the one pleasurable activity not only permitted but actively encouraged by our rulers. The pleasure of eating an ice cream cone may be minor compared to the pleasure of meaningful, autonomous work, but the former is easily available and the latter is not. A poor family would undoubtedly rather have a decent apartment than a new TV, but since they are unlikely to get the apartment, what is to be gained by not getting the TV?

  Ellen Willis

  Meaningful, Ice Cream, People

  "Women and the Myth of Consumerism". Book by Ellen Willis, Ramparts, 1969.

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• But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE and TIME. These, as spun and woven for us from before Birth itself, to clothe our celestial ME for dwelling here, and yet to blind it, lie all-embracing, as the universal canvas, or warp and woof, whereby all minor Illusions, in this Phantasm Existence, weave and paint themselves. In vain, while here on Earth, shall you endeavor to strip them off; you can, at best, but rend them asunder for moments, and look through.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Two, Dwelling

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.304, CUP Archive

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• At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.

  Ruth Gordon

  Lying, Who Cares, Looks

  Ruth Gordon (1971). “Myself Among Others”

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• Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.

  James Heckman

  Creating, Play, Gaps

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• the audience is the controlling factor in the actor's life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.

  Agnes Repplier

  Actors, Littles, Theater

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• For all-around, everyday, all-season wear, farmers can't be beat. They are inclined to chafe under the burden of leisure (a minor vexation on the farm), but they thrive on neglect and adversity.

  Patricia Penton Leimbach

  Adversity, Everyday, Vexation

  Patricia Penton Leimbach (1987). “All my meadows”, Harpercollins

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• 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

  Should Have, Stories, Records

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• 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 originality.

  George Steiner

  Moving, Self, Weakness

  George Steiner (1991). “Real Presences”, p.170, University of Chicago Press

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• 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 is not a simple solution to the world's problems, but it can bring order into our lives, and that's a good start.

  Scott Cunningham

  Simple, Order, Magic

  Scott Cunningham (1983). “Earth Power: Techniques of Natural Magic”, p.14, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Children have no reasonable assumption of privacy while they are minors in their parent's home.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Children, Women, Home

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