Major Quotes

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

If the Arctic tundra and permafrost melt, we could expect to see major damage in those areas to homes, roads, airports and, ironically, oil pipelines.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.

Iran is the only major oil-producing country that still has a budget deficit. History tells us since the Iranian revolution, they always talk about cutting production, but they've never cut it.

What we interpret here has a major impact on the American life we have today. We have the Constitution and Charles Pinckney, we have the Revolutionary War and Fort Moultrie and we have the Civil War here at Fort Sumter.

Major dams occur above many communities in this state. Giving people information can help them tie into what they should do to help themselves.

Putting tourism on a sustainable path is a major challenge, requiring partnership and cooperation within the tourism industry, and between the industry, governments and tourists themselves.

All of our jackets for NASCAR, major league baseball, the NBA, are licensed. We even made a jacket for Muhammad Ali, a limited run, for $7,000 apiece. Ali signed them.

We think this could be a major, precedent-setting case.

Protectionism remains the major threat to global growth.

We can say that Indian agriculture is in the midst of a major crisis.

A major earthquake is no time for on-the-job training.

This is the most significant move in African fashion in the last decade; and represents a major leap forward for our designers. Our goal is to make the world-class talent of South African designers more accessible to international audiences.

The hard part about being independent is that major media is not supportive of independent artists because we're not selling tires or soda. The only thing that we want to sell is our message.

So long as there are no more major skeletons to come out, we may have reached a low point. The recovery will be stuttering but the market will regain its composure.

The major problem is merely congestion. It's because of a lack of capacity.

She was very weak in fact because the surgery was a major undertaking and her system couldn't take it.

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.

For most fishermen, salmon is critical for a major portion of their income. This is a killer. This is a fishery that's a century old and this is the first time to my knowledge that it would be totally closed.

Due to factors beyond our control, we escaped a major epidemic _ for the time being, anyway.

It's a major conservation effort.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.

Our findings suggest that unseen dark matter - which emits no light but has mass - has had a major effect on the formation and evolution of galaxies, and that bright active galaxies are only born within dark matter clumps of a certain size in the young universe.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the naturals, the ones who somehow know how to teach.