Majors Quotes - Page 5

• 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.'

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Google, Finals, Add

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• If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

  Nathan Wolfe

  Epidemics, Disease, Ifs

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• We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line of bullshit back so you can write a major line of bullshit and be paid for it.

  Jennifer Egan

  Lying, Writing, Bullshit

  Jennifer Egan (2009). “Look at Me: A Novel”, p.98, Anchor

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• We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine. In minor ways we differ, in major we're the same.

  Maya Angelou

  Laughing, Maine, Way

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.227, Random House

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• Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don’t have sufficient respect for the senseless. The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy.

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, People, Enemy

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.329, Penguin

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• What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Way, Minors

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• That's why I like listening to Schubert while I'm driving. Like I said, it's because all his performances are imperfect. A dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while I'm driving, I might want to close my eyes and die right then and there. But listening to the D major, I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of - that a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. And personally I find that encouraging.

  Haruki Murakami

  Eye, Perfect, Listening

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jan 07, 2015

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• Lady, I was gonna cut you some slack, 'cause you're a major mythological figure...but now you've just gone nuts!

  Mike Mignola

  Cutting, Nuts, Gone

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• As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way that felt like choosing but was actually the dance of little gears--neurons and hormones bubbling up into decisions like clockwork. You don't use your body; it uses you.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Decision, Brain, Molecules

  Scott Westerfeld (2006). “Peeps”, p.6, Penguin

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• The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Spiritual, Religious

  Dalai Lama (2016). “The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Book, Creative, Enough

  Vladimir Nabokov (2017). “Lectures on Literature”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.

  Nikki Giovanni

  College, Thinking, Light

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• I can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

  Abraham Maslow

  Life, Motivational, Leadership

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• How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.

  Carl Sagan

  God, Science, Religion

  "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space". Book by Carl Sagan, 1994.

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• Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.

  Keith Ablow

  Real, Guy, Finding Yourself

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• 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.

  Deb Caletti

  Knowing, Feelings, Littles

  Deb Caletti (2010). “Nature of Jade”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Lit majors are not known for watching where they're going; most of us walk with our eyes in a book instead of on the path ahead.

  Rachel Vincent

  Book, Eye, Path

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Stray”, p.14, MIRA

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• I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.

  Ken Wilber

  Truth, Important, Pieces

  Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.160, Shambhala Publications

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• Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

  Margaret Mead

  Passion, Government, Problem

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• Thomas swallowed, wondering how he could ever go out there. His desire to become a Runner had taken a major blow. But he had to do it. Somehow he KNEW he had to do it. It was such an odd thing to feel, especially after what he'd just seen... Thomas knew he was a smart kid- he somehow felt it in his bones. But nothing about this place made any sense. Except for one thing. He was supposed to be a Runner. Why did he feel that so strongly? And even now, after seeing what lived in the maze?

  James Dashner

  Smart, Taken, Kids

  James Dashner (2009). “The Maze Runner (Maze Runner, Book One): Book One”, p.39, Delacorte Press

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• The smallest decisions made had such profound repercussions. One ten-minute wait could save a life… Or end it… One wrong turn down the right street or one seemingly unimportant conversation, and everything was changed. It wasn’t right that each lifetime was defined, ruined, ended, and made by such seemingly innocuous details. A major life-threatening event should come with a flashing warning sign that either said ABANDON ALL HOPE or SAFETY AHEAD. It was the cruelest joke of all that no one could see the most vicious curves until they were over the edge, falling into the abyss below.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fall, Curves, Safety

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.344, St. Martin's Griffin

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• He stops in his tracks, face expressing major disappointment. "Wait - seriously? That's it? We don't get to do a stealthy tiptoe as we slip around back? No sneaking through a cracked window, or arguing over who gets to crawl through the dogie door to let the other one in?

  Alyson Noel

  Disappointment, Doors, Track

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• Tides are like politics. They come and go with a great deal of fuss and noise, but inevitably they leave the beach just as they found it. On those few occasions when major change does occur, it is rarely a good news.

  Jack McDevitt

  Beach, Doe, News

  "Deepsix". Book by Jack McDevitt, September 2000.

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• When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a major sports colosseum at the heart of their capital. Our fate can be different; but only if we start doing things differently.

  Thomas Friedman

  Sports, Heart, Fate

  Thomas L. Friedman (2007). “The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century”, p.373, Picador

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• On that walk around the building, two sets of cops coming out stopped to tell our guys to hustle us inside so they could head back out on the road. Accidents everywhere. A pileup on each of two major roads. “Welcome to winter,” one said. “When fifty percent of drivers should have their licenses temporarily suspended.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Winter, Two, Should Have

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