Major Quotes - page 11

In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science. (Freeman A. Hrabowski III)
I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started. View quote
Ferguson Jenkins
My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult. View quote
Florence Henderson
It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game. View quote
Floyd Abrams
Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0% balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy. View quote
Frances O'Grady
Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa. View quote
Ginni Rometty
IBM's long-standing mantra is 'Think.' What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me, is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues. View quote
Ginni Rometty
There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement. View quote
Galen Rowell
People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the band's existence. They treated our gigs as something threatening. I'm sure that it probably was. They probably had reasons to be scared. View quote
Greg Ginn
Through my whole career, that's been a major thing - bringing my family with me. View quote
Gemma Ward
I'm on record as being understood to be a supporter of a reformed establishment, in which other Christian denominations, and other faiths, play a major part. (George Carey)
The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened. View quote
Helene D. Gayle
I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building. View quote
Helmut Jahn
I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street. View quote
Henry Kravis
I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense. View quote
Herb Ritts
I did try to go to college and try to be an English major. View quote
Hamish Linklater
I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night. View quote
Harold H. Greene
I was a Political Science major. View quote
Harry Shearer
I just love playing in major championships. View quote
Inbee Park
I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that. View quote
Ivan Lendl
Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others. (James MacGregor Burns)
In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle, in a town a fifth the size of London. And that's not unusual. In Germany, there are dozens of towns with two or three orchestras. The connection with music goes very, very deep. View quote
Jeffrey Tate
People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success. View quote
Jerry Gillies
I am absolutely confident that St. Louis can attract major players in technology and make the companies that are here blossom. View quote
Jim McKelvey
Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature. View quote
Jack Miller