Liberalism's fatal flaw,. . . is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these seems like a hot new idea to liberals, but soon goes to irksome and destructive extremes.
Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.
Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today.
I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.
The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of punctuation, in the plot, in the most minor character who crosses the page. It's all your voice.
You rang, Mino- well, you’re not really the Minor Master anymore, are you? What should I call you? (Asmodeus) Think of a polite term, demon. (Jericho) Mister Master it is. What can I do for you? (Asmodeus)
For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.
I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.
Psychology was going to be my minor in college. I've always been really interested in the human mind, which is probably why I'm an actor.
I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.
Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.
For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be artistically frustrating; on the contrary, it was an extension of my art.
I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
I'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's.
Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.
Kids don't fight in minor hockey anymore. There's very few fights in junior and college hockey. So growing up, all these guys are not fighting.
And you learn [how to win] starting in the minor leagues, by winning day in and day out.