Quotes of: Major-impact Keyword

No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.

Neil Kinnock

Women are an eternal subject, which is a lot like being subjected, or subjugated, or a subject nation, even. There are comparatively few articles about whether men are happy or why their marriages also fail or how nice or not their bodies are, even t...

Men Explain Things to Me

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 Premis...

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Majority thinks that philosophy is useless not because of being completely uninterested in philosophical questions. In contrast, they would like to know at least from where they came, why they live and what will happen afterdeath. Majority underestim...

Elmar Hussein

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

Ambrose Bierce

The successful are those who can be saved from their own selfishness.

Major Themes of the Qur'an

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art.

A Life with Books

When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.

Brad Paisley

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

Carter G. Woodson

Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.

Orville Redenbacher

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

Orson Welles

The Green Party represents that majority point of view within the U.S.

Peter Camejo

Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.

Peter DeFazio

The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.

Penn Jillette

People tend to think of psychopaths as criminals. In fact, the majority of psychopaths aren't criminal.

Robert D. Hare

When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography.

Katherine Waterston

Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.

Leroy Hood

It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.

Leila Josefowicz

I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade' after I graduated.

Mamie Gummer

If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up.

Mickey Gilley

I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and then I left there to go to the University of Evansville where I majored in theatre.

Rutina Wesley