Major Quotes - page 7

The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people. (A. B. Yehoshua)
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation. View quote
Abraham Verghese
Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing. View quote
Maureen Johnson
Oh, that's just great. I come all the way back here, risking major brain cell burnout, and you don't even believe me? I'm basically guaranteeing myself a lifetime of heartbreak, and all you have to say is that you think I'm not right in the head? View quote
Meg Cabot
Investors should be cautiously positioned as the global economy and markets face major uncertainties. The downgrade will be a further headwind to growth and job creation in the U.S. View quote
Mohamed El-Erian
My father has been a major force in the popular culture for a long, long time. He's a fascinating person. View quote
Owen King
There are parties and then there are huge major blowout parties. And then there are Olympian parties. If you ever get a choice go for the Olympian. View quote
Rick Riordan
It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important. View quote
Richard Donner
Göring industrial empire represented, in this sense, one of the major steps towards restricting private industrial capitalism and substituting a ‘völkisch', state-run industrial economy. View quote
Richard Overy
It seems obvious, then, that the search for solutions to the problems generated by a predominantly privately owned market-oriented society has been and will continue to be a major element in the political agenda of every democratic country. View quote
Robert A. Dahl
But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me, 'Major Barbara' is the greatest of all the plays in that it starts from the rational and proceeds to the ecstatic in a spectacular way, and leaves you very confused if you cling to Euclidean logic. (Tony Kushner)
My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality? View quote
Philip K. Dick
Kissing is not just kissing. It is a major escalation or de-escalation point in a powerful process of mate choice. View quote
Helen Fisher
I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and raise it and have a baby baby and raise it. And to try to do justice to either one. It was a very conscious decision on my part not to have children - which I have never regretted. View quote
Betty White
The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television. View quote
Galina Vishnevskaya
It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty. View quote
Gordon W. Allport
But sometimes, too, you have this little feeling of knowing, this fuzzy, gnawing sense that someone will become a major something in your life. You just know that theirs will be a life you will enter and become a part of. View quote
Deb Caletti
For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids. View quote
David Duchovny
War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced. View quote
Alva Myrdal
My major ambition is just to stay relevant. View quote
James Corden
She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read. (Jeffrey Eugenides)
Immigration is the major issue everywhere, and even the countries where it isn't the number one issue, it ends up becoming one. View quote
Douglas Murray
For Google, the problem with being a free, abundant, and rather infinite set of services is that it's hard to create much of a stir about anything. There are so many major software service options under the 'more' menu on the Gmail page that they've had to go and add a final item called 'even more.' View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar. View quote
Kami Garcia
I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board. View quote
Kami Garcia