Major Quotes - page 3

It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening. (Fred Ward)
I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things. View quote
Mary Hart
It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity. View quote
Peter Bart
Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information. View quote
Roger Wicker
We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not. View quote
Sean Lennon
For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind. View quote
Umberto Guidoni
If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic. View quote
Warren Rudman
Taiwan is a major economy. View quote
William Kirby
Success in Iraq will be a major setback for terrorists and a major asset for the security of this region. The struggle for Iraq is the struggle for the future of the world. View quote
Zalmay Khalilzad
In f-major, c* [a C major chord] is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f. View quote
Jean-Philippe Rameau
I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical. (Robert A. Heinlein)
It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment. My father, when very young, was the first American to be ordained as a Buddhist monk. He now teaches Indo-Tibetan studies at Columbia University and is regarded as this country's foremost authority on Buddhism. When the Dalai Lama comes to America, it's my father who is his host. When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however. But Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them. View quote
Uma Thurman
A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious. View quote
Graham Greene
When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands. View quote
Brian Mulroney
The world order needs a major overhaul. View quote
George Soros
Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity. View quote
George Soros
Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy. View quote
Theodor Adorno
I didn't major in math. I majored in miracles, and I still believe in them, too. View quote
Mike Huckabee
Spending comes just as natural to liberals in Minnesota and the Minnesota legislature as bashing decency comes to the editorial board of our major metropolitan newspapers. View quote
Michele Bachmann
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today. (Pope Paul VI)
Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
Each of the major sciences has contributed an essential ingredient in our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic importance. Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average galaxy among millions; biology took away our status as paragons created in the image of God; geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
I view the major features of my own odyssey as a set of mostly fortunate contingencies. I was not destined by inherited mentality or family tradition to become a paleontologist. I can locate no tradition for scientific or intellectual careers anywhere on either side of my eastern European Jewish background. [...] I view my serious and lifelong commitment to baseball in entirely the same manner: purely as a contingent circumstance of numerous, albeit not entirely capricious, accidents. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the news. During one of the US elections, I actually went through my computer and I blocked myself from looking at the major newspaper sites and Google News because I wasn't getting any work done. View quote
Jimmy Wales