Minor Quotes

Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. (Ambrose Bierce)
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
Absence extinguishes the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. View quote
Stephen Hawking
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. View quote
Pierre Bourdieu
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author. View quote
Arthur Miller
It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature. View quote
Francis Crick
People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty. View quote
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today. View quote
Martin Feldstein
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the very first time. (Margot Fonteyn)
Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism. View quote
Angela Carter
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. View quote
Gaston Bachelard
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures. View quote
Vince Lombardi
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. View quote
Katharine Hepburn
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives. View quote
Marilyn Ferguson
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste? View quote
David R. Brower
It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity. View quote
Peter Bart
There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned. View quote
Alec Guinness
I'm a minor, stupid talent compared to my brother. View quote
River Phoenix
The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice. (Martha Gellhorn)
... but a dying culture invariable exhibits personal rudness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle. View quote
Alain de Botton
Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter. View quote
Harry Houdini
In almost every single way, George and I share the same values. And if we differ on some issues, it's very, very minor. View quote
Laura Welch Bush