Major Quotes

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. (Mignon McLaughlin)
First, utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved. View quote
Eric Hobsbawm
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. View quote
Douglas Adams
I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write. View quote
Ken Thompson
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. View quote
Robert Orben
Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups. View quote
Cathy Guisewite
Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society. View quote
Gunnar Myrdal
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. View quote
Iris Murdoch
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory. (Friedrich Dürrenmatt)
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man. View quote
Edward Steichen
I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town. View quote
William Howard Taft
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair. View quote
Douglas Adams
Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances. View quote
Robert Crumb
A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. View quote
Milton Friedman
It's in this book I was reading. Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac. View quote
Meg White
When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic. View quote
Barack Obama
I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal. View quote
Brian May
A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't. (Steven Soderbergh)
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. View quote
M. H. Abrams
Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans probably ate some meat, it was unlikely to have played a major role in their diet. Plants would have been a much more important source of food. View quote
Jane Goodall
Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary or political interest, the one that reflects our available faculty for action then we move from the remedy so available or desired back to a cause to which that remedy is relevant. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. View quote
Abraham Maslow