#major

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting. ↗

— Alan Brien

#been #being #collecting #congenial #debt

I believe there is a great deal too much mutual confession going on today, as if sharing one’s problems somehow makes them go away. All it really does, of course, is increase the number of people who have to worry about a particular issue. ↗

— Helen Simonson

#major-pettigrew-s-last-stand #humor

One and God make a majority. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#majority #make

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#society #imagination

Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#always #become #books #captains #classics

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. ↗

— G. H. Hardy

#already #definition #enough #enough people #intelligent

So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner. ↗

— Ben Stein

#among #anyone #big #big time #except

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. ↗

— Gelett Burgess

#check #dead #discarded #few #haven

I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men. ↗

— Helen Keller

#true-to-life #life

I count it as a major victory to not only be on a series that's had a full season run, but to actually be on one that's gotten picked up for a second season. ↗

— Benjamin Bratt

#count #full #gotten #had #i