Minors Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• Did you get Mom a birthday present?" Helen asked. "Yes," Gansey replied. "Myself." "The gift that keeps on giving." "I don't think that minor children are required to get gifts for their parents. I'm a dependent. That's the definition of dependent, is it not?" "You, a dependent!" his sister said, and laughed. "You haven't been a dependent since you were four. You went straight from kindergarten to old man with a studio apartment.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mom, Children, Men

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• Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Twitter post from Nov 10, 2016

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• No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Inspirational, Art, Dedication

  Leon Battista Alberti, Renée Neu Watkins (1999). “The use and abuse of books”, Waveland Pr Inc

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• I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.

  Bill Walton

  Get Well, Health, Long

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• People are falling in love because a certain man has a certain type of nose. People are falling in love with fragments! Nobody is bothered about the totality of the person -- and it is a vast thing. The nose does not count for much --- after two days you won't look at it at all. Or the color, or the shape, or the proportion of the body -- all these things are very minor. The real thing is the total functioning of the person, and that can be experienced only when you live together.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Falling In Love, Real

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• For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very centre of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Travel, Home, Independent

  "The Painter of Modern Life".

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• Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Dance, Ballet, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment... It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress. If there is not complete agreement between the results of one's work and experiment, one should not allow oneself to be too discouraged, because the discrepancy may well be due to minor features that are not properly taken into account and that will get cleared up with further developments of the theory.

  Paul Dirac

  Taken, Science, Views

  "The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature". Article republished from May 1963 issue of Scientific American, blogs.scientificamerican.com. June 25, 2010.

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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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• I instruct you to be the obeyer,
  A rhythm recipe that you'll savor,
  Doesn't matter if you're minor or major,
  Yes, the Tribe of the game, rhythm player,
  As you inhale like a breath of fresh air

  Phife Dawg

  Rap, Player, Air

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• How do you want to live your life? How do you want to play the game? Do you want to play in the big leagues or in the little leagues, in the majors or the minors? Are you going to play big or play small? It's your choice.

  T. Harv Eker

  Life, Games, Play

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Mar 28, 2013

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• Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Integrity, Vices, Ethics

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.93, BookBaby

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• The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.

  Ken Calvert

  Children, Abortion, Purpose

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• 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?

  David R. Brower

  Years, Luxury, Energy

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• The Earth is warming but physical evidence from around the world tells us that human-emitted carbon dioxide has played only a minor role in it. Instead, the mild warming seems to be part of a natural 1,500-year climate cycle (plus or minus 500 years) that goes back at least one million years.

  Fred Singer

  Years, Energy, Climate

  Fred Singer, Fred S. Singer, Dennis Avery (2006). “Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years”, p.9, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• If an enemy has alliances, the problem is grave and the enemy's position strong; if he has no alliances, the problem is minor and the enemy's position weak.

  Sun Tzu

  Strong, War, Enemy

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• Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.

  James Madison

  Party, Rights, Justice

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.42

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• Where a majority are united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure.

  James Madison

  Party, Insecure, Opportunity

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Stress, Health, Years

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• The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

  Rumi

  Military, Hero, Enemy

  "Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Rumi, translated by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski, 1990.

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• The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance.

  Aristotle

  Heart, Soul, Brain

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