Quotes of: Minor-league Keyword

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.

Henri Poincare

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

Edmund Burke

Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.

James Heckman

Agatha: [to stranger in mall] He knows, don't go home.

Minority Report

John Anderton: I'm not being set up. I really am going to kill this man.

Minority Report

Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities.

Marvin Olasky

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

Avril Lavigne

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

Will Durant

There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it disproportionately targets minority communities.

Yvette Clarke

I always say to women, 'Take advantage of the fact that you're in the minority, don't see it as a disadvantage. You're that much more unique when there's fewer of you.'

Carol Leifer

If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.

Hillary Clinton

I want companies who get federal contracts to hire more women and minorities from the local area.

Hilda Solis

Tis true what Hemingway says--if we're lucky enough to live our dreams in youth, as Ernest Hemingway did in 1920's Paris and I did with the Beat poets, then youth's dreams become a moveable feast you take wherever you go--youthful love remains the re...

Ivy League Bohemians (A Girl Among Boys): Bliss Book of Columbia University's Pariah Artists

Not every minor inconvenience leads to a major catastrophe.

Beyond the Tears: A True Survivor's Story

When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.

John McGahern

My life has always somehow been played out in a minor key, unresolved. Art somehow resolves things for me.

Daphne Guinness

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

Lafcadio Hearn

Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.

On Liberty

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

Paranormalcy

People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.

Jimmy Wales

To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'

Nate Silver