(788 quotes found)
“Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaint.”
William Osler
“The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.”
Arthur C. Clarke
“The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.”
Abba Eban
“Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.”
Anthony Robbins
“The Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health has a national conference every other year. This year the focus of our conference is on cardiovascular disease or heart disease and how to translate research into practice.”
Maya Angelou
“Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America's newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority in the minds of many American editors and publishers.”
Loren Ghiglione
“Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all sure that neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind”
Robertson Davies
“A typical minority-group stereotype - woman as nigger - if she knows her place (home), she is really a quote lovable, loving creature, happy and childlike”
Naomi Weisstein
“People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority... don't seem to me favored by fortune but rather to be pitied for their continuous self-torture. They add, change, remove, lay aside, take up, rephrase, show to their friends, keep for nine years and are never satisfied. And their futile reward, a word of praise from a handful of people, they win at such a cost -- so many late nights, such loss of sleep, sweetest of all things, and so much sweat and anguish... their health deteriorates, their looks are destroyed, they suffer partial or total blindness, poverty, ill-will, denial of pleasure, premature old age and early death.”
Desiderius Erasmus
