Minors Quotes - Page 5

• I’d designed my avatar’s face and body to look, more or less, like my own. My avatar had a slightly smaller nose than me, and he was taller. And thinner. And more muscular. And he didn’t have any teenage acne. But aside from these minor details, we looked more or less identical.

  Ernest Cline

  Teenage, Noses, Body

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.28, Random House

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• I never understood people who said their greatest fear was public speaking, or spiders, or any of the other minor terrors. How could you fear anything more than death? Everything else offered moments of escape: a paralyzed man could still read Dickens; a man in the grips of dementia might have flashes of the must absurd beauty.

  David Benioff

  Men, Greatest Fear, People

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• You said your mom is the goddess of balance," I reminded him. "The minor gods deserve better, Ethan, but total destruction isn't balance. Kronos doesn't build. He only destroys.

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, Deserve Better, Balance

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.233, Penguin UK

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• Professor Lyall, cursing his Alpha for departing so precipitously, balled up the piece of paper and, after minor consideration for the delicacy of the information it contained, ate it.

  Gail Carriger

  Pieces, Paper, Delicacy

  Gail Carriger (2010). “Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.163, Hachette UK

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• There's no such thing as a minor lapse of awareness. You're either present with what is--right here, right now--or you're someplace else.

  Gay Hendricks

  Lapses, Awareness, Right Now

  Gay Hendricks, Tinker Lindsay (2012). “The First Rule of Ten: A Tenzing Norbu Mystery”, p.56, Hay House, Inc

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• I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the minor deity Psyche. It was the Greek way of saying that, in spite of what it may believe, Love pursues the Soul, not the body; the Erotic desires the Psychic. If Love was clean and wholesome he wouldn't lust after Psyche.

  Stephen Fry

  Believe, Dirty, Thinking

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• he wouldn't mention, now or then, the illegal nine-millimeter automatic he had in his pocket. Why distress the woman you loved with minor details?

  Nora Roberts

  Pockets, Details, Nine

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection”, p.55, Penguin

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• Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?

  Jacqueline Carey

  Character, Figures, Tales

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• You'll be fine, just some minor burns and hypothermia, which was kind of hard to explain.

  Kiersten White

  Kind, Fine, Hypothermia

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• Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Character, Men, Purpose

  Seth Grahame-Smith (2010). “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus: Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man. Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore- Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second. This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Blessed, Science

  "The Devil's Dictionary:". Book by Ambrose Bierce (p. 204), 2008.

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• Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.

  Elizabeth Bear

  Tragedy

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• Talent? That's not talent. Talent is Liza Minnelli tap dancing and singing at the same time. What I just saw was devastation. Dying man on the cross. Salvation in B minor.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Men, Dancing, Singing

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.87, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers, has been rather carefully thought out...The seemingly miraculous concurrence of these numerical values must remain the most compelling evidence for cosmic design.

  Paul Davies

  Numbers, Design, Evolution

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• The object of my researches is the brain. The cranium is only a faithful cast of the external surface of the brain, and is consequently but a minor part of the principal object.

  Franz Joseph Gall

  Skulls, Anatomy And Physiology, Faithful

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• The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists inform me that I am a liar, charlatan, fraud and scoundrel. Aside from this minor difference, the letters are astoundingly similar. Both groups share the same crusading zeal and the same lack of humor, charity and common human decency. These intolerable cults have served to confirm me in my agnosticism by presenting further evidence to support my contention that when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Christian, Liars, Should Have

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• Modern reality has got such a hold on us that... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts...the minor events of our lives tear us away from our meditations, and... thrust us back into our personal [problems]

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Reality, Meditation, Tears

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• It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they have seen and been told about love so far has been an inside perspective, and they are not prepared for the crashing weight of this exclusion. It dawns on them now how much they never saw and how little they were wanted, and with this dawning comes a painful re-imagining of the self as peripheral, uninvited, and utterly minor.

  Eleanor Catton

  Self, Perspective, Dawn

  Eleanor Catton (2009). “The Rehearsal”

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• If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Expectations, Important, Foundation

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.69, Bottom of the Hill

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• Rose, I cheat at cards and buy liquor for minors. But I would never, ever force you into something you don't want.

  Richelle Mead

  Rose, Cards, Want

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.231, Penguin

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• Of course, Annabeth wouldn't be able to breathe, but at the moment, that seemed like a minor problem.

  Rick Riordan

  Annabeth, Able, Problem

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were "fine" or "industrial" or "minor". It was based upon the effect of art on the soul of the human being.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Art, Islamic, Soul

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• Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Heart, Aunt, Men

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection”, p.36, Macmillan

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• And trying to break it down this way, to minor and major offenses, maybes and what-ifs, was like arguing over the origin of cracks in a broken egg. It was done. How it happened didn't matter anymore.

  Sarah Dessen

  Eggs, Broken, Trying

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.93, Penguin

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• Okay, I'll strip. I'll tap dance. I'll sing 'La Cucaracha' in C minor.

  Darynda Jones

  Tap Dance, Okay

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.258, Macmillan

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