Majority Quotes
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A man with God is always in the majority. (Quote by - John Knox)
So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former. (Quote by - Alfred A. Montapert)
Your first hit in the majors-that's tops. It means you're on your way. When you get the first hit, then you can get the rest. (Quote by - Rod Carew)
A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport. (Quote by - Pierre de Coubertin)
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. (Quote by - Henry Youngman)
The hope is that we'll be encouraging users to upgrade to broadband because a majority of them will be able to get high-speed connections. (Quote by - Anne Bentley)
A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the whole world (Quote by - John Adams)
I am the very model of a modern Major-General; / I've information vegetable, animal and mineral; / I know the Kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, / From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical. (Quote by - William S. Gilbert)
Wes Stow was a champion of Republicanism. He was the architect of the Republican majority in Citrus County. (Quote by - Bill Grant)
The great majority of the people say enough. They are sick and tired of this war. (Quote by - Admiral Leighton Smith)
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
The major trend that characterizes everything in the travel Internet space is putting more and more current information at the fingertips of consumer. (Quote by - Charles Buchwalter)
Sure, they?re safe. I deal with coaches on a daily basis. The vast majority of them have only the best intentions for kids. Their mission is consistent with our mission, and that is that athletics is a part of the total education of a youngster, and they buy into that concept. (Quote by - Anthony Mosa)
The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
I'm sure we'll take a little of that money to live more comfortably, But the majority will go to retirement and the kids' education. (Quote by - Brad Jarvis)
You don't need a major label and they sure don't need you. (Quote by - Alan Light)
We will not allow them to take power. Now is when the national majority has to govern the country. (Quote by - Evo Morales)
We just worked the ball inside and made some good shots. With the majority of playing time on the bench, the bench came in and did well. (Quote by - Alan Kirk)
I believe that if the silent majority were to protest against those who believe in irrational blind faith - who want to go backwards instead of forward, who are for tradition not innovation, who oppose individualism and plurality of thought - then the world would become a truly civilized world in which to live. (Quote by - Taslima Nasrin)
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. (Quote by - W. Clement Stone)
I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town. (Quote by - William Howard Taft)
We're fairly familiar with dealing with natural disasters, and we had a major regional electrical outage a few years back. So our people are fairly familiar with the need to be prepared for anything. That certainly helps us out. (Quote by - Bob Cass)
He was very well-respected as a major league ump, but I always imagined it had to be tough for a young African-American to work his way through the minor leagues in the '70s,' Reed said. (Quote by - Charlie Williams)
Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive. (Quote by - Milton Friedman)
The course is softer and playing longer than what I remember. The fairways are too wide for a major championship. (Quote by - Bob Gilder)
I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives. (Quote by - Steven Spielberg)
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. (Quote by - Jefferson Davis)
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
The country was founded on the principle that the primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains. (Quote by - Avram Noam Chomsky)
What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings. (Quote by - Ann Landers)
We're doing this because a majority of AOL members will be able to get high-speed connections and access the AOL service for this new price. Hopefully it's an encouragement for them to get high-speed connections. (Quote by - Anne Bentley)
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. (Quote by - Edward Young)
The people have said yes to change and reform. The majority of the Palestinians have said yes to the slogan, 'Islam is the solution.' The people also voted in favor of our policy of resistance and against the occupation. Our policy is designed to defend Jerusalem, achieve the right of return for all refugees and the release of our prisoners. (Quote by - Ismail Haniyeh)
Our assessment found no changes warranted to our major modeling assumptions. (Quote by - Catherine Elder)
Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time. (Quote by - Denis Waitley)
In economics, the majority is always wrong. (Quote by - John Kenneth Galbraith)
I like to think that there is a clear majority of people who's be supportive of the idea, It does save the existing industry. It does provide hundreds of millions of dollars for the Commonwealth. (Quote by - Morrissey)
The odds [of a buyer] are reduced because of all the major challenges Gateway has gone through. It's a tough situation. (Quote by - Andrew Neff)
It does not take a majority to prevail but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. (Quote by - Samuel Adams)
That would appear to be a conflict of interest to me, The majority of time you hire outside consultants, they give you the outcome you want because they want to be hired again. (Quote by - Brian Blair)
It's a good idea not to major in minor things. (Quote by - Anthony Robbins)
The majority of the time those shots usually drop for us. But tonight, they just didn't. It was nothing in particular. We still had the looks at the rim. As far as entry passes . . . a few careless passes here and there, but we usually convert and we didn't tonight. (Quote by - Bobby Simmons)
The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised. (Quote by - John C. Calhoun)
The majority of Latin actresses in Hollywood were always playing either spitfires or maids. Now here is a woman who comes in and does leads opposite white people and black people and other Spanish people, and she's comfortable in her skin? Gasp! How dare she? (Quote by - Rosie Perez)
Hardy, CEO of 84 Lumber, is going above and beyond. A hospital in a major metropolitan area has top doctors. (Quote by - Adam Young)
Thirty-two years after the legalization of abortion by the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life. (Quote by - Rick Santorum)
We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway.polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business. (Quote by - Ralph Lauren)
The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. (Quote by - Stendhal)
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. (Quote by - Dag Hammarskjold)
It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be. (Quote by - Vergil)
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. (Quote by - Charles Dudley Warner)
The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups. (Quote by - Cathy Guisewite)
The majority of men are bundles of beginnings (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A major rugby tour by the British Isles to New Zealand is a cross between a medieval crusade and a prep school outing. (Quote by - John Hopkins)
We acquired a ready player for the major leagues. In our opinion, he's ready to go. (Quote by - Bill Lajoie)
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. (Quote by - Eugene Debs)
The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected you, are not fooled by your weapons of mass distraction. (Quote by - Michael Moore)
There's been some major movement over the last few days, and it's looking promising. We're all very close. (Quote by - Brad Garrett)
The majority of ours are good, and the majority of them are good, I can't really say (the fights) are because they are here. (Quote by - Anthony Morris)
A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong. (Quote by - Henrik Ibsen)
I think the majority of the people who voted for them are with us. But I'm not taking anything for granted. (Quote by - Anthony Cobos)
The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections (Quote by - John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton)
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second greatest feeling is to lose a major league game. (Quote by - Chuck Tanner)
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - a sense of humor and a sense of proportion (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Do you know what crazy is? Crazy is majority rules! (Quote by - Jeffrey Goines)
Those numbers are stronger than they were two weeks ago. A majority of people believe it was close, but Bush is ahead, and he is likely to win the presidency. (Quote by - Bill McInturff)
The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them (Quote by - Gunnar Myrdal)
Things are working out real well. We're thrilled to have the Major League camp in one place, and have activities so the fan can participate at another level more than in the past. (Quote by - Alfonso Felder)
So much for the Prime Minister's assurance there would be no Government arrogance after it took majority control on Tuesday. (Quote by - Bob Brown)
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Hello, we're major-label, corporate, rock sell-outs. (Quote by - Kurt Cobain)
Maturity may be the biggest thing this year. We had a successful season last year and we returned the majority of our team. We've got guys that have been there before and we know what it takes to win. (Quote by - Blake Toole)
Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top. (Quote by - Camille Paglia)
We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital (Quote by - Horace Mann)
Last week we identified the major areas where foam came off the tank. We are starting to make some sense of the data what the mechanism for the foam loss was. (Quote by - Bill Gerstenmaier)
Most people fail in life because they major in minor things. (Quote by - Anthony Robbins)
These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: voting in two elections at the risk of their lives, preparing for a third, writing and ratifying a constitution granting more freedoms than exist in any country in the entire Arab Middle East. The secret is out, There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics. (Quote by - Fouad Ajami)
I think the majority of people in Homer (Glen) want to see what the boundary is going to be before they commit to voting for the bond issue. (Quote by - Ann Holtz)
The expansion is a major step forward in fulfilling these requirements, and the project has been planned carefully enough to accommodate future demands. (Quote by - Bin Sulayem)
They're demanding major outsourcing of our jobs, not because they need it but because they think they can make them somewhere else cheaper. (Quote by - Buzz Hargrove)
The silent majority is silent, and that is best for everybody. (Quote by - Gerhard Kocher)
To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Tim Duncan's foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year's playoffs. That's not the kind of injury that gets better over time playing NBA basketball. (Quote by - Bill Walton)
Our season-ticket holders have been notified. It (the lottery) was based on seniority. The majority of our allocation will go to season-ticket holders. (Quote by - Bill Keenist)
The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. (Quote by - Friedrich von Schiller)
I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back. (Quote by - Tucker Carlson)
The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes. (Quote by - Brian Moore)
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
One and God make a majority. (Quote by - Frederick Douglass)
Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion -- and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion while truth again reverts to a new minority. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)
Obviously we are pleased to add Stephen to our team. He's a proven contributor who was a major contributor to San Antonio's championship team last season and he has the versatility to play both wing positions for us. (Quote by - Billy Knight)
Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate. . . . (Quote by - Olympia Brown)
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
From watching the news one would think the Iraqis want us out of their country. But an overwhelming majority of Iraqis support our involvement there. Our freedom is contagious and we helped liberate them. (Quote by - Jim Bunning)
After embracing Islam in 1977, I considered the majority of underprivileged dark-skinned people of the so-called Third World brothers and sisters in humanity. (Quote by - Yusuf Islam)
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. (Quote by - Gore Vidal)
The majority of the people are trying to keep their heads up. [But] some are really depressed, We're looking forward to coming out of the freezer. (Quote by - Anita Tucker)
It doesn't mean that the majority of the Iranian people think like that. They are staying in their homes. They are not on the streets. (Quote by - Mehrangiz Kar)
The majority of our petitions were already filed before today, so it was really quite quiet. We had some company, but basically they were incumbents who had no opposition, holding their breath for the deadline. That was all the company we had. (Quote by - Ann Beard)
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artist's power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When these worlds meet occasionally, it is pure coincidence. (Quote by - Paul Klee)
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
The vast majority, who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that will tell them whether tomorrow is a good day to close a business deal or not, become all the more excited and enthusiastic about t (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)
They're Major League hitters. You make a mistake, they make you pay. (Quote by - Jose Lima)
Today the majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. The mass campaign of defiance and other actions of our organizatio (Quote by - Nelson Mandela)
As for our majority one is enough. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions. Dante's is one of those that one can only just hope to grow up to at the end of life. (Quote by - T.S. Eliot)
Big-money donors have realized this is going to be a key election, where majority control of the House could potentially be up for grabs. (Quote by - Alex Knott)
It makes you feel good when you win those major preps. It makes you feel like you have a legitimate chance. It's just that I've been getting better horses. I'm in a good place, and I have good 3-year-olds. (Quote by - Bob Baffert)
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it. (Quote by - Charlotte Bronte)
It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself. (Quote by - Sandra Day O'Conner)
During the majority of his waking hours he is in close association with his pupils, who are admittedly his inferiors, and so he rapidly acquires the familiar, self-satisfied professorial attitude of mind (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority (Quote by - James Madison)
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. (Quote by - A. A. Milne)
When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority (Quote by - Charles R. Swindoll)
If the fools do not control the world, it isn't because they are not in the majority (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted. (Quote by - Thomas B. Reed)
They say 'practice" makes perfect.' Of course, it doesn't. For the vast majority of golfers it merely consolidates imperfection. (Quote by - Henry Longhurst)
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
If Oklahoma loses, it's a major upset. There hasn't been a team that's been such a prohibitive favorite. (Quote by - Bill Fennelly)
Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose the vast majority of editors are incorruptible. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority. (Quote by - Will Durant)
Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
I'm in the final stages with one of the major companies. (Quote by - Marilyn Manson)
We believe this will have a negative impact on February sales for the majority of our retailers as the much colder weather will likely impede store traffic, and sales of spring merchandise sets that are now in stores may be impacted. (Quote by - Bill Dreher)
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. (Quote by - Alexis de Tocqueville)
This bill would make a major impact on the Central Coast, just from the number of people who work really hard in the agriculture industry and the hospitality industry. It will make a difficult situation even more difficult for that population. (Quote by - Cesar Lara)
The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value. (Quote by - Barry Ritholtz)
While no one doubts the majority of illegal immigrants from Mexico are simply looking for work or a better way of life, the sheer volume of illegal crossings offers ample opportunities for those who might have other plans. (Quote by - Antonio Garza)
The guy had an off week. It's his poorest finish in a major in about seven years and he still made the cut. He finished way down the field but that's how this game goes. So much is expected of the top players now that it's almost unfair pressure. He took some criticism because he travels so much but that's also part of the reason why Ernie Els is as good a player as he is. (Quote by - Adam Scott)
One is a majority if he is right. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
The majority opinion, to our mind, does not follow the clear congressional intent, I think it misreads the language of the statute, being that under the ruling, even if they stop all RICO violations forever more, they can continue to collect revenue from people they have addicted. It makes no sense. Congress did not intend for the courts to stop future violations but benefit from past behavior. (Quote by - Bill Corr)
Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer Internet. (Quote by - Bill Gurley)
He's going to be a Major League pitcher -- we caught lightning in a bottle when we acquired this guy. (Quote by - Bob Apodaca)
Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind. (Quote by - Robertson Davies)
The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and the victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed. (Quote by - Walter Lippmann)
The majority of Irish people have had enough of intolerance dressed up as liberalism (Quote by - Rosemary Scallon)
The argument that people should give up their convictions and put their vote behind the majority is a dangerous way of thinking. We should vote for ourselves and as we see fit for the college. The fact that we don't take the decision lightly shows our commitment to women's education. (Quote by - Anita Avramides)
It shows that the major dealers are committed to working on the major issues that the industry faces. (Quote by - Sunil Hirani)
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their "luck" arose from (Quote by - Srully Blotnick)
Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass (Quote by - Emma Goldman)
There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth. (Quote by - John Kenneth Galbraith)
The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the—the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice. (Quote by - George W. Bush)
The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
You indict the majority leader on a conspiracy charge and you're now just looking at his phone records? This should have been taken care of three years ago. (Quote by - Bill White)
There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. (Quote by - Jeremy S. Anderson)
It doesn't take much to do major damage to a car. (Quote by - Bob Green)
Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A (Quote by - Robert Heinlein)
Some people registered as NGOs hoping to get funding and the vast majority of them never de-registered and remain on the list of NGOs. They had nothing more than a business card. (Quote by - Anja de Beer)
The truth is not always the same as the majority decision. (Quote by - Pope John Paul II)
That was done because of a recognition that education takes a majority of our budget and because education influences other things like neighborhood character. (Quote by - Theo Holtwijk)
In this Court dissents have gradually become majority opinions (Quote by - Felix Frankfurter)
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
For the majority of the second-half we controlled the game and we didn't get what we deserved. (Quote by - Billy Davies)
Where's our majority, they're the one's who ought to be here listening to this. This is information we really and truly ought to be concentrating on. (Quote by - Bill Summers)
It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can. (Quote by - Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
In the United States the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own (Quote by - Alexis de Tocqueville)
Obviously, those guys do have a lot more major experience, with the wins. But, you know, I'd like to start somewhere. (Quote by - Chad Campbell)
I think the leadership conference will be the first major cattle show before the 2008 election, and it should be pretty much mandatory attendance for any candidate seeking election in 2008. (Quote by - Charlie Cook)
The challenges there are much the same as the challenges here, but there are also some major differences. Stanford isn't as dependent on gate receipts as Iowa (for examp (Quote by - Bob Bowlsby)
It's not just what you spend on the major-league payroll. In the last year we've purchased a Double-A franchise (in Springfield, Mo.) paid more than double for early-round draft picks and opened an academy in the Dominican Republic. We've made a much greater investment in international scouting and player development. Perhaps those things aren't as apparent as major-league payroll, but they're there and they have tremendous significance. (Quote by - Bill DeWitt Jr)
That's how [Democrats] would like this election defined. It is hard for me to believe that a congressional majority would be so flat-footed as to allow that to happen. (Quote by - Bill McInturff)
For there is one thing we must never forget… the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards. (Quote by - Adolf Hitler)
Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities. It calls for taking special care that all groups have a chance to fully participate in society and the political process. Discussing the recent University of Michigan affirmative action cases, Justice Breyer contrasts an opinion by Clarence Thomas, arguing that the Equal Protection Clause requires government actions to be colorblind, long denied full citizenship. (Quote by - Ruth Bader Ginsburg)
The vast majority of businesses really have no idea how much their business is actually worth until they sell it. (Quote by - Alex Kindler)
There's still general nervousness around. The major event of the week has been comments from various Fed heads, and they seem to be saying not only that the economy has not begun to perk up but that there are still some signs that it is slowing down. (Quote by - Arthur Cashin)
A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence. (Quote by - Marc Racicot)
The unfettered use of the emergency room services without. (Quote by - major step back, )
The family is really happy about the results. It's reassuring the majority of voters could see through all the misinformation that was being spread around. (Quote by - Allan Moore)
At first the majority of the people were angry because they felt like they were being forced to quit. (Quote by - Angela Lenhart)
A lot of people don't know there's a nonprofit conservation group that's responsible for the majority of Catalina and has to generate its own revenues. (Quote by - Ann Muscat)
The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man. (Quote by - Richard M. Nixon)
The majority cares little for ideals and integrity. What it craves is. (Quote by - Emma Goldman)
While women are still the majority of shoppers, I think men hold out a hope for a better retail year. (Quote by - Annette McEvoy)
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds (Quote by - Samuel Adams)
We had a conference call (Monday) night. It was pretty clear cut that Ted had the majority of the vote, but to satisfy the minority that's a little upset with the process, we're going to do it again. Our confidence is still in Ted, and I think once this is done everybody is finally going to put this to bed. (Quote by - Bob Boughner)
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities and the smallest minority on earth is the individual. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble. (Quote by - Sam Rayburn)
It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful. (Quote by - W. H. Auden)
The greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison Edison's first major invention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousands of American homes, where it basically sat until 1923, when the record was invented. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
Pillsbury was quick to note the overall plan isn't an attempt to position the tournament as a major championship but rather a necessary step to elevate the entire experience It's the right thing to do, and it's the right time to do it. (Quote by - Bob Combs)
The vast majority of what you see here today, you'll see in the showroom by the end of the year. (Quote by - Wolfgang Bernhard)
We decided to offer odds again this year because that's what the majority of our customers wanted . . . but in the spirit of fairness, we could no longer accept any wagers on this particular show. (Quote by - Alex Czajkowski)
The majority of our production is for the Chicago Assembly plant, more than 50 percent. The rest is split between the other eight, and three of those are being closed. We hope to recoup that capacity with the new models that are coming. (Quote by - Bill Jackson)
It is absolutely impossible to get even a majority of us together in a room, and I'm not joking. It just happens very, very seldom -- every three years or something. (Quote by - John Cleese)
There's a rising level of frustration with the disconnect between where the vast majority of conservatives are in this country and how Congress is behaving. There's going to be a wake-up call sooner or later. (Quote by - Pat Toomey)
For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The determination came in response to a virtual fishery shutdown in the affected states due to major flooding, damage to fishing boats and fishing ports, waterways clogged with debris and closed processing facilities. We are taking action now because of the significant economic effects of Hurricane Katrina on fishing communities in the Gulf of Mexico, Major commercial fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico include fin fish, shrimp and oysters, with an estimated value of almost $700 million per year. (Quote by - Carlos Gutierrez)
The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority (Quote by - Henrik Ibsen)
The driver market is the tightest it has been in 20 years. It's a major limitation to the amount of freight that motor carriers can haul. It's critical that we find ways to tap a new labor pool, increase wages and recruit new people into the industry that keeps our national economy moving. (Quote by - Bill Graves)
Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Lobbyists have a tendency to advise their clients that the majority of their contributions should go the party in power. The party in power controls the agenda and can make things happen or keep things from happening. (Quote by - Allan Katz)
That's where we start (looking) Baton Rouge is the closest major city to New Orleans. Hard to say where this thing is going to take us in the next in few weeks. (Quote by - Allan Bristow)
The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account (Quote by - James Madison)
We are in the early days of what could turn into a major humanitarian catastrophe. The alarm has been raised in time but if we don't get the support in need, the result will be catastrophic. (Quote by - Bjorn Ljungqvist)
The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests. (Quote by - David Deutsch)
I think it's an example to people around the country. A majority of Americans support impeachment. They're looking for leadership, and San Francisco's providing it. (Quote by - Bob Fertik)
ARM processors continue to power the vast majority of mobile devices in high-volume consumer markets, where the need to work at the ES level to optimize designs for performance, low power, and cost is most acute. Through our continuing strong relationship with ARM, we are able to provide models that significantly lower the barriers to adoption, to more quickly experience the benefits of ESL design. (Quote by - AK Kalekos)
God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
After all, if you have the majority of customers, then what you do becomes the standard. Your competitors have little choice but to follow. If you are the leader, then having a nonstandard infrastructure is a bad idea. Ultimately, it leads to extinction. (Quote by - Doug Gwyn)
It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause. (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)
Miami's a marquee program you hear about every week. It's a school the majority of us here would want to go to. It's the type of program you measure yourself up to. By beating that program, it brings you up with them. (Quote by - Akarika Dawn)
A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious. (Quote by - Graham Greene)
The majority of the spaces will be sold to residents as reserved spaces. (Quote by - Bill Mulso)
A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
It's still too early to tell, A good majority of people realize that when oil prices go up, propane prices will go up also. (Quote by - Bob Anderson)
California has become the first American state where there is no majority race, and we're doing just fine. If you look around the room, you can see a microcosm of what we can do in the world. . . . You should be hopeful on balance about the future. But it's like any future since the beginning of time -- you're going to have to make it. (Quote by - Bill Clinton)
People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing. (Quote by - Walter H. Judd)
There will be no majority opinion. This will be one of those unpublished opinions that will not be citable before the Supreme Court. (Quote by - Antonin Scalia)
Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's. (Quote by - Carlos Beltran)
The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
You're getting increasingly developed infrastructure throughout the major economies in Asia which is a good framework to run a logistics operation. Toll has always had an aggressive strategy of growth. (Quote by - Angus Gluskie)
There must be no majority decisions, but only responsible persons, and the word 'council' must be restored to its original meaning. Surely every man will have advisers by his side, but the decision will be made by one man. (Quote by - Adolf Hitler)
The gulf coast region has been hit hard by two major hurricanes and is going to need federal assistance at several levels, The best way to make sure that the resources are targeted properly is for us to see this area firsthand. I am pleased that members from both sides of the aisle share my commitment to making sure that the relief effort is targeted and managed as efficiently as possible. (Quote by - Bob Goodlatte)
The major determinant is how much does it take from Jordan as opposed to other markets which historically weren't so close to it. (Quote by - Angus Blair)
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper. (Quote by - Larry Flynt)
But that was the most restricted launch supply of any major console platform. (Quote by - Anita Frazier)
Any man more right than his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent. (Quote by - Adnan Pachachi)
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
The evidence shows that it has been very difficult for the majority of firms to add value to the tune of the fees that are being charged Customers are becoming wise to this. (Quote by - Bill Maldonado)
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population the intelligent ones or the fool (Quote by - Henrik Ibsen)
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
We will still pick up the state and a large majority of local governments. It would be my opinion we go ahead and perhaps bring an amendment some years down the road. (Quote by - Bob Beers)
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. (Quote by - Giordano Bruno)
The dead being the majority, it is natural that we should have more friends among them than among the living. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter mad if he sees with eyes other than theirs (Quote by - Vincent van Gogh)
This is the first election in New York City history where the majority is minority. (Quote by - Hank Sheinkopf)
Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress. (Quote by - Claude Levi-Strauss)
One gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
The majority are still guys in their 50s, but we are seeing young miners coming in here now. You didn't see that a year or two ago. (Quote by - Angie McDaniel)
The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb. (Quote by - Edward Dahlberg)
No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble. (Quote by - George Norman Douglas)
What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If [voters] care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots. (Quote by - Newt Gingrich)
In politics, an organized minority is a political majority. (Quote by - Jesse Jackson)
Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as ''right'' in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as ''brute force.'' (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
Tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans-I ask for your support. (Quote by - Richard M. Nixon)
I think Seattle is going to become a laughingstock. We are going to look like the Moral Majority up here. (Quote by - Bob Davis)
Along the way, there also have been major innovations and probably his best one is transparency: Recognizing the need to communicate continuously with markets in deciding how policy will be formulated. (Quote by - David Jones)
There is one body that knows more than anybody, and that is everybody. (Quote by - Alexandre De Talleyrand- périgord)
This time it was unavoidable. The majority of the downturns in this cyclical business don't last this long. (Quote by - Bob Clark)
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. (Quote by - Frank Gelett Burgess)
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood. (Quote by - Otto von Bismarck)
Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
I would think 2006 is the last year that there are major releases on VHS, and there won't be many of those. (Quote by - Bo Andersen)
For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
On a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority, trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other (Quote by - James Madison)
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason. (Quote by - Lord Acton)
The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar. (Quote by - William F. Buckley Jr.)
There are major disappointments with the outcomes of Solidarity: corruption, and major pockets of economic backwardness and even poverty. By and large, though, if there were a choice between the life Poles led in the 1970s and 1980s and now, nobody but a lunatic would say they wanted to have back what they had before. (Quote by - Zbigniew Brzezinski)
Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic. (Quote by - Michelle Rodriguez)
They fail to meet our major criteria, which was maximum access and preservation of that bedrock area. (Quote by - Anthony Gardner)
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. (Quote by - John Kenneth Galbraith)
All I needed to know was that Jacqueline Bisset was in the movie, I had a major crush on her. (Quote by - John Cusack)
One man with courage makes a majority. (Quote by - Andrew Jackson)
A smaller majority concentrates the mind. (Quote by - Alan Milburn)
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell (Quote by - James Whistler)
