Minors Quotes

• We are minor in everything but our passions.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Passion, Literature

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Life, Laughter, Twilight

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.64, BookBaby

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• We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Positivity, Suffering

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.112, Penguin

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• 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.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Family

  Vince Lombardi (2000). “What it Takes to be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Patience, Virtue

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• Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 28, 2015

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• Some people don't do well simply because they don't feel well.

  Jim Rohn

  People, Wells, Feels

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 16, 2017

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• 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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Cheer Up, Humility

  "Der Spiegel", October 17, 1988.

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• Anytime a church squabbles over minor things you can be certain they do not have a clear picture of what they need to be.

  John C. Maxwell

  Church, Needs, Certain

  Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

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• 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.

  Francis Crick

  Twenties, Textbooks, Four

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• Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.

  Tony Blair

  Sleep, Wife, Nuclear

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• I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.

  Steve Martin

  Inspirational, Dance, Details

  Steve Martin (2008). “Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.

  William Throsby Bridges

  Disappointment, Moving, Transition

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• I have an economics degree with a minor in sociology. The reason I have that is because I want to do a ministry in urban areas and help with underprivileged kids.

  Jeremy Lin

  Kids, Degrees, Ministry

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• I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.

  Avril Lavigne

  Motivational, Trying, Trouble

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.

  Alicia Keys

  Song, Eye, Keys

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• For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  People, Suffering, Would Be

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• What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Years, America, People

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• Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Women, Memorable, Acting

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• I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

  Kate Chopin

  Wind, Tree, Earth

  Kate Chopin (1974). “The Storm And Other Stories with THE AWAKENING”

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• Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.

  Ernie Harwell

  Player, League, Want

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• A clever man commits no minor blunders.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Witty

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• I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer.

  Neil Gaiman

  School, Boys, College

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• The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team.

  Al Franken

  Team, Years, Wings

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, progressive.org. July 2, 2009.

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• Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

  Arthur Miller

  Games, Life Is, Pastime

  Life, February 7, 1964.

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